John Demco
Root Zone Partners Ready for New gTLD Deployment – The organizations responsible for managing the Root Zone have issued a statement on their readiness to deploy new gTLDs into the root, indicating that they “are able to process at least 100 new TLDs per week and will commit the necessary resources to meet all root zone management volume increases associated with the new gTLD program.” The Root Zone Partners are: ICANN, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), and VeriSign, Inc.
Picks To Click
- CIRA is introducing the registration of .ca domain names with French characters as of January 13, 2013.
- ICANN’s Nominating Committee is inviting Statements of Interest and recommendations for positions on the ICANN Board, the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) council, and the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) council.
- CIRA Board members Paul Andersen and Bill Sandiford have been re-elected to the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Board of Trustees and to its Advisory Council, respectively.
Timeline
- Sun, Jan 13: Registration available for .ca domain names with French characters
- Sun, Apr 7 – Thu, Apr 11: ICANN meetings in Beijing