ICANN might be the “official” administrator of top-level domain names. They give out all the .com, .net, .org and other well known domains to all the Web sites you know and love. There are alternatives, however, and one of the best is OpenNIC. TorrentFreak has learned that OpenNIC is now offering a .pirate domain for ...
Another delay in reopening TAS. Last night ICANN provided an update on when it plans to reopen TAS, the tool that new top level domain name applicants use to submit applications. The update basically says it will be another week before there’s an update. This is certainly turning ugly for ICANN. In the grand scheme ...
The organization that manages the Internet’s domain name system said on Friday it is trying to make sure it has completely solved a technical glitch that shut down a database for applicants wanting to register new top-level domain names. “What we are trying to do is do it right, instead of trying to do it ...
Managed Hosting News Thursday, 12th April 2012, 16:19:16 London registers own domain name London and Partners, the capital’s official PR agency, has applied for a .london domain name. With the help of Top-Level Domain Holdings (TLDH), the company has filed its application with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), just ahead of ...
Go Daddy gets another patent. Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC has been granted U.S. patent number 8,156,180 for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”. I wrote about this patent application when it was published last year. It describes a number of methods that someone could be redirected to a web site specific to a ...
(AFP) – 3 hours ago GENEVA — The European Broadcasting Union said Thursday that it would apply to acquire the .radio domain name for the radio community. “The EBU wants to ensure that the world’s radio community has fair, reasonable access to a domain name that could bring unique impetus to the entire sector,” EBU ...
The group that manages the Internet’s domain-name system is facing a real test of confidence. The Commerce Department is weighing whether to renew the contract under which the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers performs technical functions that help make the Web run smoothly. This contract, under which ICANN runs the Internet Assigned Numbers ...
What it Means for Seattle Businesses’ Brands and Trademarks PART I (of a two part series) Every day there are 50,000 new domain names coming online. The number of internet users globally will double to over 3 billion by 2015 and internet commerce is expected to be $1.4 Trillion by 2015. To address the increase ...