ARI Registry Services Supports One of the First New TLDs to Pass Pre … - ARI Registry Services has become one of the first back-end registry services providers to pass the rigorous pre-delegation testing regime for new Top-Level Domain applicants following official notification from ICANN today that شبكة. has passed. dotShabaka Registry, the applicant for شبكة. (.shabaka, translates to .web in English), received official confirmation today that they have successfully passed pre-delegation testing. This is one of the last crucial steps in determining ... read more ...

Chinese websites go down as massive DDOS attack hits its .cn domain - Early Sunday morning, the Chinese government says that it faced what is described as the largest Direct Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that the country has ever seen. The attackers targeted China's Top Level Domain (TLD) .cn and effectively took down all Chinese websites using the .cn TLD.   China's Internet Network Information Center said that the attacks began around 2 AM early Sunday morning and lasted for about two hours with the DDoS attack falling off around 4 AM. The Wall Street Journal ... read more ...

Oman urges businesses to use local TLD to prevent attacks -

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Dot-Bible Takes Scripture From Gutenberg to Google -

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.BIBLE will Join .Com and .Org; American Bible Society to Offer a New Domain … - With fewer and fewer domain names available, American Bible Society will facilitate the addition of countless web addresses by releasing the .BIBLE top-level domain (TLD), making the message of the Bible even more accessible to people in a way that best fits their digital lives. BIBLE domain. Advertisement ... read more ...

ICANN Must Now Decide String Similarity Question - Yesterday, a decision on a string confusion objection was reached by a dispute resolution provider that resulted in a scenario that ICANN and the Applicant Guidebook had not addressed — conflicting opinions have been rendered by expert panelists ruling on the exact same pair of strings. One of our applications now hangs in the balance. The expert panelist for the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) assigned to decide the string confusion objection filed by VeriSign against ... read more ...

Will global brands have cloud computing monopoly? - If a small number of commercial organisations win control over the '.cloud' registry in a closed form then no individuals, organisations or businesses will be able to register without their permission  Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers started the process of reviewing thousands of generic 'top level domain' - or TLD - applications across varied industries. One of those was '.cloud'. Three global brands – Google, Symantec and Amazon – ... read more ...

Preliminary agreements to sell Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website … - Information contained on this page is provided by an independent third-party content provider. WorldNow and this Station make no warranties or representations in connection therewith. If you have any questions or comments about this page please contact pressreleases@worldnow.com.SOURCE TLD Registry Ltd DURBAN, South Africa, July 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- European internet domain name registry TLD Registry Ltd and ten leading registrars have signed preliminary agreements to sell fully-Chinese domain ... read more ...

Will global brands have a monopoly on cloud computing? - If a small number of commercial organisations win control over the '.cloud' registry in a closed form then no individuals, organisations or businesses will be able to register without their permission  Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers started the process of reviewing thousands of generic 'top level domain' - or TLD - applications across varied industries. One of those was '.cloud'. Three global brands – Google, Symantec and Amazon – ... read more ...

How to Create the Best Domain for Your Business - (Ping! Zine Web Tech Magazine) - For any business, creating profitable foot traffic to the physical business location all starts with establishing a clear physical address. The same strategy goes for the Internet. In order to generate optimal attention and success, business owners must first establish a valuable address online, or domain. Representing an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, a domain can be associated with the personal computer used to access the Internet, ... read more ...

ICANN Bans Dotless Domains - Any new top level domain approved for the Internet will have to be more than just a single label. ICANN's new gTLD program committee (NGPC) has decided to ban the use of "dotless domains". TLD operators that had planned to use their new suffix as a keyword, i.e. just the string and nothing else, will now have to reconsider. Many experts, including ICANN's own technical advisory body SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee), had warned that the use of dotless domains might pose a ... read more ...

ICANN New gTLD Committee Kills Off Dotless Domains - The new gTLD Committee of ICANN just killed off Dotless Domains according to a resolution published last night. Google notified ICANN that it modified  its application to operate .Search new gTLD from a closed model to an open model operating it as a Dotless Domain. Here is the resolution: Whereas, dotless domains consist of a single label and require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record in the apex of a TLD zone in the DNS. Whereas, Section 2.2.3.3 of the Applicant Guidebook ... read more ...

Time for Auction? - Today, Innovative Auctions announced the resolution of eight Top Level Domains in the second private auction commencing on August 13th for a total of $9,651,000. With the first and second auctions successfully completed and the third auction scheduled for September 10th is now a good time to resolve your contention set and jump on the next auction bus? Requirements: Before jumping on the bus, you'll need a ticket, which requires: A combined minimum cash deposit of $500,000 for each contention ... read more ...

NTAG Cites .XXX in Telling ICANN To Allow All New gTLD’s Labeled “Unknown … - In a comment filed with ICANN on the Name Collision Report of Interisle,  the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) signed by Tim Switzer, laid out a pretty compelling argument for why ICANN should not delay the roll out 279 new gTLD’s that fell within the “unknown risk category in the Interisle report. “With such a long history of productive discussions, it is dismaying to see a great deal of uncertainty about the New gTLD program being introduced at such a late point in the process.” While ... read more ...

California Hosts the Most Porn in the US: Infographic -

OLDER: UK Tech Blog Challenges CloudFlare, Web Hosts on Free Speech

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Retailers Fail To Derail ICANN’s ‘Express’ Train To More Top-Level Domains - There's no denying it: The Internet domain name system poses serious challenges for trademark owners. Domain name cybersquatting was the original trademark Internet twist. And the current explosive expansion in top-level domains will create new trademark conflicts, and possibly new twists in Internet trademark law, as two very recent cases involving the retailers Express and The Limited illustrate. Before diving into these recent decisions, let's quickly review top-level domains. They are the highest ... read more ...

.horse is here and the internet will never be the same - Soon the internet will be awash with nearly 2,000 new top-level domains (TLDs), those short suffixes at the end of a web address — like the ubiquitous .com — that indicate the kind of site it's pointing to. The influx is the result of the new land grab for a corner of the web's millions of URLs, whether that's sites that end with .book, .catholic, or .horse. But it wasn't so long ago there were fewer than 10 TLDs, says Craig Partridge, one of the young scientists who helped decide how ... read more ...

Publication of the Dotless Domain Name Study – ag-IP - MARINA DEL REY, CA - ICANN announced the publication of the Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents/sac-053-en.pdf) [PDF, 1.02 MB] by IT Security firm, Carve Systems LLC (Carve Systems). According to ICANN, the 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., ... read more ...

Retailers fail to derail ICANN’s ‘express’ train to more top-level domains - There’s no denying it: The Internet domain name system poses serious challenges for trademark owners. Domain name cybersquatting was the original trademark Internet twist. And the current explosive expansion in top-level domains will create new trademark conflicts, and possibly new twists in Internet trademark law, as two very recent cases involving the retailers Express and The Limited illustrate. Before diving into these recent decisions, let’s quickly review top-level domains. They are ... read more ...

Further gTLD delays proposed as ‘risk to internet’ revealed - Responding to research that highlights the risk of collision between applied-for gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs, ICANN has proposed mitigation measures for the different risk profiles applications fall into. The result? Uncertainty, additional work and potential delays for applicants. Yesterday ICANN released the results of a study considering the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs (in internal naming systems), ... read more ...