Selection of Integration Panel for the IDN Root Zone Label Generation Rules … – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES, CA - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced in a press release that the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) Variant Top Level Domain (TLD) Program has completed the selection of the Integration Panel for the IDN Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR). We received many applications from well-qualified individuals and we thank all the applicants for their interest in the IDN Variant TLD Program. The Integration Panel is a vital component in the implementation ... read more ...

Mali .ml Domain Phishiest TLD of Any Country in the World: Netcraft - According to Netcraft, Mali now has the most phishy top-level domain of any country in the world After offering free .ml domains in July, Mali seems to have a huge phishing problem with its ccTLD, according to a report on Thursday by Netcraft.  According to Netcraft, Mali now has the most phishy top-level domain of any country in the world. Nearly six percent of the .ml domains in Netcraft’s survey are currently blocked for hosting phishing sites. Netcraft says the second most phishy ... read more ...

Etisalat to use etisalat as domain extension - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global regulator of web addresses has approved Etisalat to use etisalat as domain extension. Etisalat has become one of the first companies in the world to pass the initial stages of a procedure to get its own Top-Level Domain (TLD) as part of a revolutionary shake-up in way we search the World Wide Web. TLDs are the letters after the final dot of a domain name. The approval could pave the way ... read more ...

Coming soon to a computer near you! - ACCESS DENIED We are sorry to inform you that you have been temporarily blocked from this website. Your IP Address or perhaps someone from the same geographical area as you has been tracked visiting one or more websites and requesting large amounts of content in a short amount of time. This has caused your IP Address to be flagged as a possible bot, spider, crawler, spyware, or some other malware. In general, we do not allow bots, spiders, or crawlers to access our websites. This is not ... read more ...

Free domains put Mali back on the map – for phishing - When the African nation of Mali announced that it was going to provide free .ml domains from July, their goal was to put Mali back on the map. It appears they have now succeeded, but perhaps not in the way they had intended — thanks to the free domains, Mali now has the most phishy top-level domain of any country in the world. Nearly 6% of the .ml domains in Netcraft's survey are currently blocked for hosting phishing sites, making it by far the phishiest TLD. In comparison, the second most phishy ... read more ...

Gabon provides .GA domain names for free – PR - Gabon liberalizes its national domain and adopts an innovative business model by giving its .GA domain names away for free. Today the My GA Registry opened up registration for .GA domains.  My GA – the Gabon domain name – is operated by the Agence Nationale des Infrastructures Numeriques et des Frequences (ANINF) who pledges to make this national resource as open and easy to use as any generic Top Level Domain, while carrying the Gabonese identity on the internet. Free domain names will ... read more ...

International SEO: Top-Level Domains, Subdomains & Subdirectories - SEO for international targets has many facets, all of which require a slightly different approach than SEO within a single country. One of the most important items is how you structure your domain name and your URL. To signify the country the website is targeting and/or language the website is in, you can approach this in one of three ways, including: Using a top-level domain name (TLD) Using subdomains Using subdirectories Top-Level Domains (TLDs) A top-level domain is the extension that follows ... read more ...

700 new web address names coming up: Here’s what you need to know - The internet is chock full these days, and if you want to stand out and compete you need not only a great website but also a memorable – and preferably short – domain name. Try and register your chosen domain name today with a .com or .co.uk ending and you’ll inevitably find that it’s already taken. There are around 110 million .com websites registered, which leaves the option of settling for another so-called top-level domain (TLD) such as .co.uk, .org or .net, or compromising ... read more ...

Gabon Provides .ga Domain Names for Free - Amsterdam — Gabon liberalizes its national domain and adopts an innovative business model by giving its .GA domain names away for free. Today the My GA Registry opened up registration for .GA domains. My GA - the Gabon domain name - is operated by the Agence Nationale des Infrastructures Numeriques et des Frequences (ANINF) who pledges to make this national resource as open and easy to use as any generic Top Level Domain, while carrying the Gabonese identity on the internet. Free domain names will ... read more ...

700 new web address names are coming: here’s what you need to know - The internet is chock full these days, and if you want to stand out and compete you need not only a great website but also a memorable - and preferably short - domain name. Try and register your chosen domain name today with a .com or .co.uk ending and you'll inevitably find that it's already taken. There are around 110 million .com websites registered, which leaves the option of settling for another so-called top-level domain (TLD) such as .co.uk, .org or .net, or compromising and ... read more ...

CentralNic Begins Trading Its Shares on The London Stock Exchange’s AIM … – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]> CentralNic Group PLC, the internet registry service provider which derives revenues from the distribution and sale of internet domain names, successfully began trading its shares on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM Market yesterday. A leading innovator in the domain name industry, CentralNic has exclusive global contracts to supply retailers such as GoDaddy and Web.com with domains using 30 different ... read more ...

Dotless Domain Names Prohibited – ag-IP - LOS ANGELES, Ca - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) announced that ot has adopted at its meeting on August 13, 2013, a resolution affirming that "dotless domain names" are prohibited. Dotless domain names are those that consist of a single label (e.g., http://example, or mail@example). Dotless names would require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record in the apex of a TLD zone in the DNS (i.e., the record relates ... read more ...

Trademarks for TLDs - The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has recently circulated proposed examination guidelines to allow the USPTO to begin providing Trademark Protection for Top Level Domains (TLDs). This is an important new development. TLDs today are currently ineligible for Trademark protection on the basis that they do not constitute a source-identifying mark. The USPTO is currently in the process of rectifying this situation by extending Trademark protection to Registry Service providers ... read more ...

700 new web address names are coming: here’s what you need to know - The internet is chock full these days, and if you want to stand out and compete you need not only a great website but also a memorable - and preferably short - domain name. New top-level domains mean the chance to grab a great URL Try and register your chosen domain name today with a .com or .co.uk ending and you'll inevitably find that it's already taken. There are around 110 million .com websites registered, which leaves the option of settling for another so-called top-level domain (TLD) such ... read more ...

What is ICANN? - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) - The same way one would connect with someone else on the phone, Internet users need a distinctive name to contact each other online. An Internet address needs to be distinctive so computers can locate one another. The job of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is to coordinate these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was tasked with the technical organization of the Internet as a non-profit organization ... read more ...

China DDoS attack shows not all TLD servers equally secure - The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down a portion of China's Internet over the weekend demonstrates that the strength of the global network varies greatly across domains. Servers running China's ".cn" top level domain (TLD) came under attack Sunday starting at about 2 a.m. Eastern time. The China Internet Network Information Center, which runs the TLD servers, confirmed the attack and apologized to affected users. The organization said it was working to "enhance ... read more ...

China DDoS attack shows not all TLD servers equally secure - The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that took down a portion of China's Internet over the weekend demonstrates that the strength of the global network varies greatly across domains. Servers running China's ".cn" top level domain (TLD) came under attack Sunday starting at about 2 a.m. Eastern time. The China Internet Network Information Center, which runs the TLD servers, confirmed the attack and apologized to affected users.The organization said it was working to "enhance the ... read more ...