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| 10-03-02 |
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French government signs contract with .FR registry
AFNIC, the incumbent French registry, will continue to operate .FR. Minister for Industry Christian Estrosi today signed a 7 year contract with AFNIC to run the French top level domain.
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| 10-03-01 |
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.XXX urges ICANN to execute 2004 contract
Following a ruling in its favour by ICANN's Independent Review Panel (IRP), would-be .XXX operator ICM Registry is pushing ICANN to honour the 2007 contract which should have allowed it to run .XXX for the last 3 years.
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| 10-03-01 |
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Chinese authorities want to meet every new .CN website owner… in person!
The latest rumours to come out of China suggest that authorities will require an in-person meeting with any prospective website operator behind a .CN domain name to green-light it.
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| 10-01-26 |
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INDUSTRY |
Good news: Nairobi meeting confirmed
After much worrying, talking, arguing and hesitating, ICANN has gone and done the right thing. Despite certain security concerns from participants from countries like the United States or the UK, the Nairobi meeting is on.
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| 09-12-01 |
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GOVERNANCE |
Rethinking public participation in ICANN
I believe ICANN has just lost of man of great talent. And I wager that few within the ICANN cognoscenti would disagree that when he left a few days ago, General Manager of Public Participation (GMPP) Kieren McCarthy tore a big hole in the organisation's ability to look beyond itself.
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| 09-11-17 |
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Egypt uses IGF to launch new Arabic Internet domain
The 4th Internet Governance Forum meeting is currently under way in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. The country's information technology minister Tarek Kamel took advantage of the spotlight currently being shined on the local Internet community to announce a forthcoming Arabic version of Egypt's national domain.
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| 09-11-16 |
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Putting .SHOP in the window
Flagship project of the the Top Level Domains (TLDs), .SHOP is supported by a company listed on the Tokyo dung whose turnover can all ambitions. Interview with Hirokatsu Ohigashi, of GMO Registry.
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| 09-11-16 |
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Minnesota company wants all derivatives of .ARTIST
Seo registry, a Minnesota-based company, is planning to apply for a .ARTIST gTLD.
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| 09-11-10 |
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Blog SVG |
Expressions of Interest in new gTLDs working group is go
A working group has been formed in response to the Seoul ICANN meeting Board resolution directing staff to "study the potential impact of a call for formal "expressions of interest," and provide a plan for Board consideration at ICANN's next Board meeting, in December 2009. The plan should include possible options and a risk analysis relating to the proposed action."
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| 09-11-06 |
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Special IDN keyboard with 327 keys!
The forthcoming launch of the IDN fast-track for country code Internet extensions has a lot of Internet users around the world eager to be able to use their own character sets and alphabets to surf the Internet, at long last.
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| 09-10-28 |
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The new GNSO is go!
Today was a landmark day for the Generic Names Supporting Organisation, aka GNSO, the place within ICANN that relates to generic top level domains (gTLDs).
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| 09-10-26 |
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.XXX decision expected soon
ICM Registry Stuart Lawley is in Seoul for the 36th ICANN meeting, where he met with Peter Dengate Thursh (Chairman of the Board) and Rod Beckstrom (CEO) to discuss .XXX.
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| 09-10-20 |
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Can you believe it, UPU and ICANN reach agreement on .POST!
Well this one's unexpected! ICANN has just announced that it has finally come to some sort of agreement with the UN's Universal Postal Union over .POST. This is the final (if you exclude the still very much in dispute .XXX) suffix that was okayed by ICANN as part of its 2003 limited round of new gTLD applications.
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| 09-10-20 |
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Emirates ready to launch Arabic Internet suffix
Internet overseer ICANN has set a tentative date for the launch of non-ASCII country code domains, or Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), for example a .RU written in Cyrillic, at November 16. Several countries are already planning to run an IDN TLD.
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| 09-10-08 |
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On the record saying good things about the people who worked on the IRT
Namesmash is running a piece on the Sydney ICANN meeting in which I'm quoted on the IRT and the amount of work it meant for the people who took part.
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| 09-10-07 |
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IDN ccTLDs set to launch on November 16
ICANN's proposed expedited process for the release of non-ASCII character country code domains is about to become reality.
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| 09-10-01 |
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Back-end services provider chosen for .PARIS
After several months evaluating candidates, the City of Paris has chosen its back-end services provider for .PARIS.
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| 09-09-29 |
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ICANN throwing "free at last" party
On Thursday October 1st, ICANN is set to party to selected VIPs for a "reception to recognize the conclusion of the Joint Project Agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce" as it says on the card.
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| 09-09-29 |
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DAGv3 out on October 1st
The long awaited 3rd version of ICANN's Draft Applicant Guidebook for the new gTLD program should be out at the beginning of next month.
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| 09-09-28 |
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61 businesses and individuals, 16 countries in favour of new gTLDs
This week, people from all over the world and from all types of backgrounds came together to co-sign a letter to ICANN's management asking for new gTLDs to be launched as soon as possible.
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| 09-09-21 |
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Death of a domain
On September 30, ex-Yugoslavia's .YU will be disconnected from the Internet and all remaining .YU domain names will cease to function.
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| 09-09-15 |
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DotHotel checks in
The dotHotel initiative isn't new, but surprisingly, it has managed to avoid drawing too much attention to itself. Not intentionally though, as the TLD sports a full and informative website.
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| 09-09-14 |
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.BKK = Bangkok's new TLD
Add one world city to the growing list of candidates for CityTLDs. Thailand's Bangkok.
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| 09-09-10 |
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"30€ for a .BERLIN domain name? Not true!"
Despite recent Internet rumours to the contrary, no price has yet been set for .BERLIN. But the German city's TLD endeavour is thriving, as we found out from dotBERLIN CEO Dirk Krischenowski.
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| 09-09-10 |
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IDNs coming to .EU on December 10
Last week, on the French version of this blog, I talked about a rumour going around that .EU registry EURid was to introduce IDNs (domain names with accents and other special characters) before the end of the year.
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| 09-09-08 |
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Russia to launch Cyrillic national suffix in 2010
Another news story coming out of the second conference for ccTLD registries and registrars and the many workshops and talks given there by Central and Eastern European registries: Russia is said to be ready to launch the IDN version of .RF (Russian Federation) next summer.
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| 09-09-07 |
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Plans for a .OTTAWA
The .OTTAWA project is intending to apply for the corresponding CityTLD.
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| 09-09-03 |
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ICANN to hold Belgium meeting in June 2010
Great news for all European Internet watchers, especially those from Belgium and France, ICANN's June 2010 international meeting will be held in Brussels.
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| 09-09-03 |
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.SIC, Dracula's TLD!
One of the good things about new gTLDs is that they make ignoramuses like myself a little less dumb. Take Szeklerland. Until a few minutes ago, I'd never heard of the place. A quick browse on Wikipedia and now I know that it's almost the birth place of Dracula. Szeklerland refers to " the territories inhabited by the Székely, a Hungarian people living in eastern Transylvania, centre of present-day Romania. They live in the valleys and hills of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains…".
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| 09-09-01 |
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Sweden blocks "bank" domain name registrations
What can ccTLD (national suffix) managers do to reduce the risk of fraud for the users of online banking services? The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency's (PTS) answer: restrict domain name registrations containing the word "bank".
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