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All About domains (Free subscription) | yesterday
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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IP Lab Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
MARINA DEL REY, CA - As part of its consultation process for the development of the July 2010-June 2013 Strategic Plan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking the views of the community on ICANN’s priorities for th... (source: AG IP News) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
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Information Policy (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
by Milton Mueller This year’s IGF was characterized by intensified rivalry between the backers of the Internet Society/ICANN and the supporters of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which would like to contest the former’s hegemony over Internet names and number...
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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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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
At the Internet Governance Forum meeting here in Egypt, a session on critical Internet resources started with yet another discussion of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This time, talk turned to paying for the upgrade to IPv6—a real issue in poorer countries. Rod Beckstrom, the head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN), offered his own novel approach to the problem:...
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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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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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Bluhalo - The Real Digital Agency Story (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have finally deemed it appropriate for Russian, Chinese, Arabic and other, non ASCII languages to use domain names represented by local language characters. To put it simply, Latin based characters will no longer be essential in making up domain names. Currently, more than 50 percent of the current total of 1.6 billion Internet users speak...
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ITREALMS Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is seeking competent and capable candidates from the global Internet community for key leadership positions to fulfill its technical and policy coordination role. Interested individuals are invited to submit a Statement of Interest to the 2010 Nom Com for the seven available positions, reports CHARLES OKOH.Three of these would be
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