Category: Domain Name News

CIRA Launches New Member Portal – CIRA has launched a new Member Portal, offering improved navigation and functionality. The portal also features exclusive access to a weekly summary of Internet-related news stories. CIRA membership may be applied for free of charge by .CA registrants. IOC, Red Cross Seek To Have Names Reserved Under New gTLDs…

ICANN Appoints Chief Security Officer – Jeff Moss has been appointed as ICANN’s Chief Security Officer. He is the founder of the DEF CON hacker conference and Black Hat, a global technical security conference. .NL Domain Achieves 25 Year Milestone – SIDN, the registry for The Netherlands’ .nl domain, is celebrating the domain’s 25th anniversary.…

ICANN Releases Revised Guidebook, Aims for June Approval of New gTLD Program – ICANN has published a Discussion Draft of the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook. Two notable changes from the previous draft are: an Early Warning Notice to an applicant from the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to flag an application which would be “considered controversial…

DNSSEC Deployed In .COM Domain – VeriSign has announced that as of March 31 the .com domain supports DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). In 2010, VeriSign had rolled out DNSSEC in .net, .edu, and, in collaboration with ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce, the root zone. .XXX Contract Signed – ICANN and ICM signed the…

ICANN Approves .XXX Domain – Meeting in San Francisco on March 18, the ICANN Board of Directors formally approved ICM Registry’s application for the .xxx top-level domain, authorizing ICANN staff to execute the proposed registry agreement. The current application was submitted in 2004. It was turned down by the ICANN Board in 2007, and subsequently…

New gTLD Differences Summarized – The ICANN Board Chairman has sent an email summarizing the Board’s response to the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) scorecard of issues concerning the new gTLD program. Each item is noted with one of these designations: 1A – Board position and GAC advice are consistent, 1B – positions are consistent in…

ICANN Board and Governmental Advisory Committee To Meet Over gTLD Differences – ICANN’s Board of Directors and its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) meet in Brussels Monday and Tuesday in an attempt to resolve remaining issues with the new gTLD process as identified by the GAC. Topics include: objection procedures, root zone scaling, market and economic…

Here is a selection of recent domain-related items: DNSSEC is scheduled to be launched for Germany’s .de domain on May 31. Neustar, the registry operator for the .us domain, is considering opening up the .us space to Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). It is soliciting feedback from the community. An Australian court has placed Australian Style…

CIRA to Host Canadian Internet Forum – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) will host the Canadian Internet Forum (CIF) in Ottawa on February 25. At the forum, CIRA will present findings from a national consultation on how the Internet is run, experts will comment on the findings, and participants will discuss Canadian and international…

ICANN Board and GAC to Meet on New gTLD Differences – In an attempt to resolve remaining differences concerning the new gTLD program, ICANN’s Board of Directors and its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) have agreed to meet on February 28 and March 1 in Brussels. Only GAC and Board members, select ICANN staff members and…

CIRA Seeks Nomination Committee Candidates – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has issued a call for new members for its Nomination Committee. The committee’s role is to solicit and select qualified candidates for the Nomination Committee slate of CIRA’s annual Board of Directors election. Applications to become a member of the committee will be…

ICANN Edges Forward On New gTLDs, .XXX – Meeting in Cartagena, Columbia, the ICANN Board made progress on a number of issues, but did not finalize the launches of either the new gTLD program or the .xxx domain. An extended meeting with the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) is planned. Concerning new gTLDs, the Board noted…

Worldwide Domain Name Registrations Surpass 200 Million – At the end of the third quarter of 2010 there were almost 202 million domain name registrations worldwide, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, representing a growth of 13.3 million or 7% year-over-year. Registrations from the ccTLDs stood at 79.2 million, a…