Tag Archives: DNS

Mon 26th October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Paul Vixie, Member Internet Hall of Fame: "New gTLD module is a Money Grab & Mistake" - Dr Paul Vixie, a member of the Internet Hall of Fame has called the new gTLD program a money grab and a mistake and called out ICANN for allowing it to happen saying it “indicates corruption.” ZDNet.com, published a post about Dr. Vixie remarks from the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday. According to Wikipedia.org,  Dr. Vixie  is “an Internet pioneer, the author of several RFCs and some Unix software.  After he left Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1994, ... read more ...
Thu 14th January 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Haiti Top Level Domain Mostly Functional - .HT domain name continues to function with some limitations. In the wake of earthquakes in Haiti, the country’s top level domain name remains functional with some limitations, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reported on its blog today. The ability to access the country’s top level domain name .HT is important for communication during the crisis. ICANN reports: -Administrators of the .ht domain name are “alive and well”. -Some of the name ... read more ...
Wed 13th May 2009
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ICANN.gone? Internet Battle Set for this Fall - U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) questions future of DNS management. ICANN’s Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the U.S. government ends in September, and already countries around the world are asking that control of the domain name system be pulled from the U.S. There are sure to be big battles ahead. NTIA is seeking public comment (pdf) on ICANN and the termination of the JPA. In reality, ICANN ... read more ...