Tag Archives: iana

Mon 7th December 2015
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New TLDs, Whois and IANA with Michele Neylon – DNW Podcast #61 - The perspectives of a mid-sized domain name registrar. Michele Neylon runs Irish hosting and domain name company Blacknight. On today’s show, he gives thoughts on new TLDs from the perspective of a mid-sized domain name registrar…and you’ll find his perspective to be really interesting. We also discuss WHOIS and the IANA transition. Also: China clamps down on .com domain names, a banner month for .Club, big Rightside investors and an agency that .Rocks. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the ... read more ...
Wed 23rd July 2014
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Larry Strickling debate to American Enterprise Institute - Speech lays out what’s ahead and why some people are overreacting. Lawrence Strickling, Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), gave a speech to American Enterprise Institute yesterday about the transition of internet functions away from NTIA. The transition of the IANA functions has been hotly (and poorly) debated in some circles. People react to a brief snippet on a blog or to a talking head on TV about how “Obama ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2014
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This time it’s real: U.S. prepared to give adult control over pivotal internet functions - Government ready to relinquish control over IANA contract. In 2009 the U.S Government agreed to the “Affirmation of Commitments” with ICANN to set if free from U.S. control. The press ate it up, assuming that it meant the U.S. had given up control of the internet. It hadn’t. The key contract that the U.S. government controls for the internet’s naming system is actually the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) contract, which includes managing the root ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2009
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ICANN to U.S. Government: End Joint Project Agreement - ICANN Chairman of the Board asks government to conclude JPA upon expiration this year. Peter Thrush, Chairman of ICANN’s Board of Directors, has sent an eleven page letter (pdf) to National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) asking to end the Joint Project Agreement when it expires later this year. The letter was in response to NTIA’s Notice of Inquiry regarding “the transition of the technical coordination and management of the internet’s ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2008
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Global Warming May Be Hazardous to Your Domain Names - Country code domain names carry risks. Here are a couple examples. Sure is pretty. Until the water rises. This headline isn’t a joke. Here’s how global warming and subsequent rising ocean waters could doom a domain name extension. Last night I read an article in The Economist about the Maldives, an island nation planning for the day it will be below sea level. The article also mentioned Tuvalu, an even smaller island nation of just over 10,000 inhabitants. ... read more ...