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Good news: new domain extensions available
"I have some good news for you! ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) thought that there aren’t enough domains available on the internet, most of the good ones are taken so there is a great proposal: .news, .sports, .ebay and more. This is very good...
Domain name shakeup may bring new net goldrush
Internet domains are all set to have a major revamp. They have been dominated for more than a decade by dotcoms, dotnets and dotcodotuks. That could all change, however, with a new scheme to liberalise the way... Plan for ICANN's Future Urgently Needed
"Plan for ICANN's Future Urgently Needed The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private, non-profit steward of the global domain name system, does not have a mechanism to protect itself against governmental interference, CDT warned in comments...Net body issues plea for liberty
" Last Updated: Thursday, 24 January 2008, 10:56 GMTIcann is keen to escape scrutiny by the US government The overseer of the net's addressing system has asked the US government to be freed from official control. Icann made the plea in a lengthy report sent to the US...Kremlin eyes internet control ...
"The growing cold war with Russia has a new front besides oil fields and undersea territorial claims: the internet. Russia's government is pushing for greater control over the Russian-language part of the net - and its aim seems to be to create a web that operates in...US Internet Control Discussed in Brazil
"U.S. control over how Internet addresses are assigned — and thus how people around the world access e-mail and Web sites — dominated discussions as a major U.N. conference on the Internet opened here...CitizenHawk Eyes Typosquatters
The last sentence of this article is the best, a quote from in-house Verizon counsel Sarah Deutsch, '.......more energy should be devoted to solving the problem at its source: registry companies that allow users to...It was a hard decision but ICANN is unable to get aroused over new .xxx Top L...
"LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- The Internet's key oversight agency voted Friday not to give adult Web sites their own ".xxx" domain, the third time it has rejected the idea.Many in the adult-entertainment industry and...ICANN say No to .xxx
"For the third time, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected ICM Registry’s proposal to introduce the .xxx domain for adult websites.Steve Goldstein, ICANN board member said that his decision turned on one point and one point only.”The... LIVE NUDE URLS
ICANN gets into the adult entertainment business:"LISBON, Portugal - Pornographic Web sites could have a virtual red-light district if the Internet's key oversight agency agrees Friday to a proposal that would create... U.N. summit revives concerns about Net control
"A long-simmering dispute over whether the U.S. government has too much control over the Internet's underpinnings will heat up again next week at a United Nations summit in Greece.Starting this weekend, about 1,200 diplomats and technology ministers will gather at a hotel in...Are web 2.0 customers as cheery as web 1.0 customers?
As businesses went online in the late 1990's so did customer support. This was new and it was certainly met with some hostility. Here are some MP3's of those hostilities. Love to hear more customer support stories...Tortoise or Turtle
"The U.S. contines to refuse to consider handing over control of the Internet to a UN style body like the International Telecommunications Union, because it might be too slow to implement rules and technology. Well that's the excuse, the reality is of course the Americans...ICANN awarded net adminstration until 2011
"The US government has awarded net overseeing organisation ICANN the contract to administer changes at the top of the internet until 2011. The contract covers what is commonly referred to as the IANA function, a traditional bundle of technical operations that includes the...U.S. voices openness to private Net control
"WASHINGTON--The United States may be willing to cede at least some of its historic control of the Internet domain name system after all, a U.S. Commerce Department official said Wednesday. Despite bold statements last year that seemed to indicate otherwise and ignited a...
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