Domain Name News - December 4, 2011

By John on December 4, 2011 2:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

U.S. Senate Committee To Hold Hearing on Expansion of TLDs - The U.S. Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will be holding a hearing on the new gTLD program. The hearing will take place on Thursday, December 8 starting at 10:00 am Eastern, and will be webcast on the Committee's website.

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General Availability for the .xxx domain begins on December 6.
auDA, the Australian domain name administrator, is conducting a review of the auDA Foundation charitable trust.
The Sofia News Agency has published an interview with ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom, including comments on ICANN's rejection of an application for the Cyrillic domain .бг for Bulgaria.
Glen Raven Inc. wins a dispute over sunbrella.ca.
The minutes of the September 19, 2011 meeting of the CIRA Board of Directors have been published.

Timeline

Tue, Dec 13: CIRA IDN consultation closes
Sun, Jan 15: .com, .net registry fees increase
Sun, Mar 11 - Fri, Mar 16: ICANN meetings in San Jose, Costa Rica

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mke said:

Far too many problems before general release of.xxx extension. In theory .xxx would (should) be a neighborhood for the porn industry. More parental control and no more stumbling on porn sites with people looking for something totally different.

December 5, 2011 1:26 AM

Domain Name News - December 4, 2011

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