Hey! Yo! Yous Hearin This!?! New York city announced that ICANN approved its request for the .nyc top-level domain. This is the first city to do so. “Pursuing the .nyc top-level domain has been a goal of Mayor Bloomberg’s Digital… Read More
Category: ICANN
Will new Top Level Domains Bring Price of Auctioned Domains Down
On June 13th ICANN announced that we could see as many as 280 new domains extensions or gTLD’s enter the Internet space within the next couple of years. As I look through that list there are a handful of domain… Read More
Battle For The Internet Looms
With the perpetually refreshed glut of information available on the Web, it’s rare to find a thoroughly researched, thoughtful and meaningful piece on – of all things – the State of The Internet. In the May issue of Vanity Fair,… Read More
Judge may ask ICANN to shutdown SPAMHAUS domain!
In what I can only describe as sure stupidity on a judge’s part it seems that one of the organizations that keep a lot of Spam out of your inbox may be in trouble over a recent lawsuit. It seems… Read More
VeriSign the gift that keeps on giving!
It looks like we are stuck with VeriSign for six more years as they have been given a renewal on thier contract with ICANN. My questions is did this come with restriction on them playing fair and not try to… Read More