IPC questions ICANN’s ability to execute digital archery. Digital archery is doomed. The clever way ICANN plans to “batch” applications for new top level domains will either be killed, or it will be subject to accusations and lawsuits. Shortly after the bug in ICANN’s new TLD application system was revealed I wrote about how this ...
The ‘.secure’ domain would enforce rigorous security By William Jackson May 11, 2012 A start-up Internet registry has applied for the ambitiously named .secure top-level domain, which organizers say would enforce high security standards for organizations operating in that name space. Those operating subdomains within .secure would be individually vetted, required to abide by acceptable ...
.Nxt moves across the pond. The third .Nxt conference covering issues related to new top level domains takes place June 20-22 at Victoria Park Plaza in London. I caught up with show founder Kieren McCarthy yesterday to discuss his latest show. After holding two conferences in San Francisco, McCarthy said a number of interested attendees ...
The group that runs the Internet’s address system is extending by a week the deadline for applications to run a new top-level domain name such as .horse or .bank to compete with .com, .net and other existing extensions. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced on its website Thursday that it is extending ...
The group that manages the Internet’s domain name system is expected Friday to provide more detail about why it has been unable to re-open a database for those seeking to apply to run a new top-level Internet address. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers last week shut down its application system for those ...
Count Tim Berners-Lee among new TLD detractors. Tim Berners-Lee, known as the inventor of the world wide web, isn’t a fan of new top level domains, he told Wired in a press conference at the W3C conference. “My personal perspective is that what we need in the domain system is stability,” he said. “We don’t ...
Armando Franca/AP The group that runs the Internet’s address system is extending by a week the deadline for applications to run a new top-level domain name such as .horse or .bank to compete with .com, .net and other existing extensions. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced on its website Thursday that it ...
The ubiquity of mobile devices, the shift to “choose it yourself” top-level domains and the availability of internationalized domain names will profoundly impact the relationship between your network and your network users. In this biweekly column, Ram Mohan, a non-voting ICANN board member and “Security and Stability Advisory Committee Liaison,” chronicles these and other developments ...