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All About domains (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
ICANN Wants To Fast Track Non-Latin Character Domain Names You may soon see URLs with Arabic characters and other non-Latin letters. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is pushing a proposal to include Internationalized Domain Names that have native language scripts. ICANN's IDN initiative, which has been in the works for several years, was presented Monday at the ICANN board meeting...
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Domain Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Major professional sports leagues and sports network ESPN value a multi-channeling, short domain name strategy for Internet TV and global online video syndication. ESPN.TV MLB.TV NHL.TV The fast growth of online video is an emerging trend for brandable dotTV domain name development. The big time pros like ESPN and MLB are branding dotTV as online extensions to their dot-com Websites which puts the...
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Guiding Rights Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
ICANN is in the middle of plans for launching new gTLDs. I'm serving on a team called the STI to consider mechanisms to protect IP rights. These are important issues - Overarching Issues, ICANN calls it - which create a lot of interest and controversy. ICANN's public face provides assurance to brand owners. A September 22, 2009 letter to the House Committee on the Judiciary states: "ICANN will,...
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Canadian Trademark Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As has been widely reported, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) recently approved the Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process at its Open Meeting in Seoul on October 30, 2009. Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names featuring non-Latin characters before and after “the dot” - for example, imagine the domain name [...]
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Paul Lockett (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
So, which government's approach to the internet domain name system would you rather have, The US: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body that oversees some of the core mechanisms of the Internet, has been granted independence from the U.S. government. On Wednesday, ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that they had signed a new agreement that states the Internet...
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The Technology Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Complaints about continuing US government control of Internet domain name issues surfaced again this week in Egypt at the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum. Should the US government step even further back from the Internet? Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/11/igf-2009-america-surrender-the-root-zone-file.ars
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The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
(Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt) Get ready for domain names in Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Japanese characters.The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalised domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around...
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Online Dating Industry Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
(Online Dating Industry Journal) Online Dating Magazine has added several more online dating domain names to its list of domain names for sale. The newest editions to the list include: OnlineDatingAU.com OnlineDatingLosAngeles.com OnlineDatingJapan.com OnlineDatingBrisbane.com OnlineDatingMelbourne.com OnlineDatingQueensland.com OnlineDatingPrices.com OnlineDatingMen.com You can...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM -- 11/19/09 -- Internetters, one of the UKs leading providers of domain names, web hosting and email services, has announced its step into the social arena with the introduction of a new blog to run alongside it's recently o..
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altnews.com.au/drop aggregator (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Priority for Existing ".Asia" Domain Registrants for Corresponding IDNs Considered HONG KONG, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Following announcements by ICANN to approve the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), the global top-level domain ".Asia", will accept IDN registrations starting in the second half of 2010 to address pent up demand in Asia for multilingual web addresses....
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Affordable Website Promotion (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
With no a domain name, websites are specified by an IP address. What’s an IP address? It’s an identifier that’s used by computers or humans to determine the surroundings of a server or internet site. By the way, for humans, an IP address, (which is expressed in a numerical format), could be [...]
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Back in October, the US Commerce Department changed its agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Out went the "Joint Project Agreement" and in came the "Affirmation of Commitments." That may not sound like much of change, but the new document removed even more US control from ICANN. It was welcomed by the international community, but some...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Internet is still under the control of the United States, participants at a governance forum said, despite a move by America to loosen its grip over the private corporation that administers the net. An agreement in September between the US Commerce Department and Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers created panels to review the work of ICANN in key areas, in a move designed to bring...
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.: Internet Ad Sales :. (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Priority for Existing ".Asia" Domain Registrants for Corresponding IDNs Considered HONG KONG, Nov. 18 -- Following announcements by ICANN to approve the use of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), the global top- level domain ".Asia", will accept IDN registrations starting in the second half of 2010 to address pent up demand in Asia for multilingual web addresses. read more
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Berman Post (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
ICANN has move ahead with the plan to implement non-Latin web addresses . They have already received six applications. The new domain names could by live by some point next year. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.13ac0d5c8683cde272d6517ecfd6d5a2.a51&show_article=1 " The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalised domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant...
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