ICANN Announces New COI Amendment Service – ag-IP - Home / ICANN Announces New COI Amendment Service / In December 2011, ICANN published guidance to help Registry Operators calculate the estimated costs for the operations of a TLD based on their projected domain registrations under management (DUMs). Since that time, the launch of new gTLDs has provided Registry Operators with market-driven data points on which to base their projected DUMs. With the COI Amendment Service, Registry Operators ... read more ...

City Must Use .NYC to Create a Real Civic Commons - Churchill nailed it in 1947 when he said "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others which have been tried from time to time." For several decades thereafter traditional Western Democracy was the tarnished global standard. But with the Internet's ascent many had a gut feeling that something better was possible. An organization I helped found saw the potential for a better democracy emerging from a "civic commons" that became possible with the city’s acquisition of ... read more ...

Regulators give Tor’s .onion domain name special-use status - .onion domain site administrators can now apply for security certificates. The Engineering Task Force (IETF), along with Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, has granted formal recognition to the .onion, a special-use top level domain suffix designating an anonymous hidden service reachable through the Tor network.It has now been added to the list of special-use domain names, enabling its use on Tor.The domain's psdeuo-TLD status has been previously limited to use only on the regular web. However, ... read more ...

Symantec/GeoTrust revokes some SSL certificates for .pw TLD - Symantec-owned certificate authority GeoTrust has revoked some SSL certificates for a small number of (unspecified) .pw domains. Digital certificates for addresses using the top-level domain are still available from other providers. Symantec said it will continue to offer organisations extended validation certificates for the .pw TLD even though the sale of regular digital certificate for the top-level domain has been put on hold. ... read more ...

Launch Of The .Swiss Domain - Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to the following terms and conditions of use. Mondaq Ltd may terminate your use of the Website if you are in breach of these terms and conditions or if Mondaq Ltd decides to terminate your license of use for whatever reason. Use ... read more ...

Theralase Completes Clinical Protocol - Toronto, Ontario (FSCwire) - Theralase Technologies Inc. (“Theralase” or the “Company”) (TLT:TSXV) (TLTFF:OTC), a leading biotechnology manufacturer focused on commercializing medical technologies to eliminate pain and destroy cancer, announced today that it has completed the Clinical Protocol and Investigator’s Brochure detailing the application of its lead light activated Photo Dynamic Compound (“PDC”), TLD-1433 in the treatment of Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer (“NMIBC”).   Pending ... read more ...

Newly available ‘.tickets’ domain names acquired by global brands - .tickets’ is a new breed of top level domain (TLD) for the world of ticketing, owned by London-based start-up Accent Media. It creates a space where consumers feel safer buying tickets by providing powerful domain names that enable brands and rights holders to easily protect and develop their assets. The ‘.tickets’ domain names have been available only to pre-registered trademark holders as part of a so called ‘sunrise period’, the soft pre-marketing phase, since July 13, 2015.During its ... read more ...

Tor Gets Its Own TLD Special-Use Domain at .onion - In a joint announcement, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) and IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) have agreed to recognize .onion as a special-use TLD (Top Level Domain). This doesn't mean you can register .onion domain names at your local money-hungry domain registrar, .onion being in the select company of other special-use domain names like .localhost, .local, .test, .invalid, .example, and the mother of all special-use domains, .arpa. Previously, .onion domain names only ... read more ...

Tor anonymity network benefits from .onion added as special-use domain name - No, the .onion top level domain (TLD) is not about parody news, it’s a way of accessing websites that run on the Tor (the onion router) network. The Tor network is   an Internet fixture that provides anonymity to users by bouncing connections across a wide network to thwart traffic analysis and surveillance. Tor is free, open source, and exists through the effort of volunteers who want to give anonymity and protection to people who need privacy. Wednesday, Jacob Appelbaum, computer security ... read more ...

ICANN Assigns Tor’s .Onion TLD as Special-Use Domain Name - The Internet Engineering Task Force has approved a Draft RFC for "The .onion Special-Use Domain Name" by the Tor Project, the provider of online anonymity and privacy services. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), an ICANN department, last night officially placed .onion on the list. As a result, the .onion TLD will not be in the Internet DNS root and with appropriate proxy software installed, browsers can access sites with .onion addresses by sending the request through the network ... read more ...

"DotWorld_IDN" TLD in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language Launches Special … - HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015. The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in Chinese; "Seikai" in Japanese and "Segye" in Korean means the "world" across Chinese, ... read more ...

TLD Podcast #20: Floyd Mayweather-Andre Berto - Floyd Mayweather–Andre Berto is a major topic of discussion on this week’s podcast. We also preview the rest of the plethora of boxing action on tap for the coming weekend, and recap fights involving Austin Trout and Anthony Dirrell. — September top-10 pound-for-pound rankings —   In this episode, Diego and I break down Floyd Mayweather’s “farewell” fight, which is disappointingly coming against Andre Berto. We debate Mayweather’s legacy and a consider a slew of “what ... read more ...

PR Newswire – Virtual - HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015. The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in Chinese; "Seikai" in Japanese and "Segye" in Korean means the "world" across Chinese, ... read more ...

"DotWorld_IDN" TLD in Chinese, Japanese and Korean Language Launches Special … – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>HONG KONG, Sept. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- "DotWorld_IDN" Registry, operated by Stable Tone Limited, today announced the launch of a Special Sunrise for the "DotWorld_IDN" new top-level-domain in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This Special Sunrise application period will last more than 60 days, starting from September 8th and ending on November 10th, 2015.The two-character domain extension, pronounced "Shijie" in ... read more ...

New .LOVE TLD Tops 10000 Domain Sales Due To Strong Sales in Asia - Beijing, China – The new .LOVE TLD [Top Level Domain] has successfully launched on the Internet (more details available at www.get.love) and is rapidly selling web domain names to couples, individuals, and businesses. "We are delighted with the growth of our .LOVE web domain sales, especially in the past two weeks. Beginning with the Qixi Festival on August 20 (Double Sevens on the Chinese calendar), .LOVE has seen phenomenal growth and has increased its overall number of domains by over 30% ... read more ...

The Web’s Most Dangerous Domains - Earlier this week, security firm Blue Coat Systems Inc released a list of the 10 most dangerous web domains. Although the list has drawn some high-profile objections, Blue Coat claims that more than 95 percent of the sites on these 10 Top Level Domains (TLDs) are suspicious. What Is A TLD? TLDs are the highest level ... read more ...

100% of Websites in These Two Top-Level Domains Are ‘Shady’ - domains like.FR (France), and.JP (Japan). As the number of TLDs has increased, so have the opportunities for attackers. Based on data just published (PDF) by the network security and deep packet inspection tool vendor Blue Coat, that’s exactly what happened: some of the new “neighborhoods” open for name registration have become nearly exclusively the domain of people setting up hosts for spam e-mailing, scams, shady software downloads, malware distribution, botnet operations and “phishing” ... read more ...

New Web addresses a cybercrime playground – Lid Time - The listed TLDs have more than 95% of their sites with shady ratings in its main database. The recent expansion of top-level domains (TLDs) has created fertile ground for cyber scammers, according to a study published on Tuesday by security company Blue Coat. These two are followed by the.country domain (99.97%),.kim (99.74%),.cricket (99.57%),.science (99.35%),.work (98.20%),.party (98.07%),.gq (Equatorial Guinea) (97.68%), and.link (96.98%). “In order to build a better security posture, ... read more ...