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ICANN Labs Want A Panel At SXSW 24 Aug 2013 | 07:13 pm
ICANN labs homepage Over the past year ICANN has been undergoing a period of change. With the appointment of a new CEO any organisation will undergo change, but when you combine that with other fact...
ICANN Hires Alexandra Dans as Comms Manager For Latin America / Caribbean 16 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
Alexandra Dans photo courtesy of ICANN ICANN announced today that they’ve hired Alexandra Dans as Communications Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms Dans previously worked for LACNIC ...
Google’s .Cloud Application Coming Under Fire (Again) 16 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
I’ve written about Google and their “closed generic” applications several times over the last 18 months. I also had the pleasure of being on a discussion panel on the topic at the most recent ICANN me...
ICANN Puts Final Nail In Coffin of DotConnectAfrica Bid 16 Aug 2013 | 02:28 pm
As most observers of ICANN know, there were two applicants for the .africa new TLD. The second applicant, dotConnectAfrica, did not have the broad support that a “geo” TLD would need in order to meet...
RIPE Announces Meeting Dates and Locations 14 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
RIPE has announced its meeting dates and locations from now until May 2015! Very handy if you like to be able to plan in advance. Here are the dates and venues: RIPE Meetings RIPE 67: Athens, Gree...
Centralnic To Float On Stock Exchange 13 Aug 2013 | 01:54 am
UK domain company CentralNic will announce tomorrow its plans to float on London’s AIM. In an interview with the Telegraph CentralNic’s CEO Ben Crawford outlines the company’s plans which should be a...
Chinese Registrar Not Escrowing Data Correctly 12 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
ICANN’s compliance team have been quite busy so far this year. In one of their most recently published breach notices against Chinese registrar Xin Net is getting “slapped” for “Repeated failure to e...
Christine Jones Running For Governor of Arizona 12 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
Former GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones is getting into politics. Ms Jones announced over the weekend that she was planning on running for governor of Arizona, where both she and GoDaddy are b...
IEDR Publish 2012 Domain Figures 31 Jul 2013 | 03:15 pm
IEDR have published their latest annual report which covers the period up to the end of 2012. Here’s a few of the highlights: Renewal rate of 86% Total .ie domains at year-end of 182,284, up 5.3% y...
ccTLD Registries Under Attack? 10 Jul 2013 | 05:25 pm
In the past 24 hours both the .nl domain registry and .be domain registry have been attacked. The .be registry‘s public facing website was defaced, though the defacement had no impact on the registry...
