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Name Collision Release for .HOST, .WEBSITE, & .PRESS – Register at Above.com

November 26, 2014 by Victor Pitts

Some domain strings across .host, .website, and .press, which were unavailable to register previously, will be made available as they will now be removed from …

COO Doug Brent leaving ICANN

October 17, 2013May 3, 2010 by brooke

ICANN has announced this week that COO (Chief Operating Officer) Doug Brent will leave ICANN at the end of July 2010; he has worked with the organization since January of 2007.

Doug is stepping down due to family reasons and has described the resignation as ‘difficult’. Doug and his family moved to Los Angeles to be closer to the ICANN headquarters, his family has decided the new location is not for them.

VeriSign Registers Record Numbers

October 17, 2013January 6, 2010 by nancy

VeriSign recently announced that it registered a record number of visitors for online sales during the year-end holidays this year. These numbers clearly indicate an increase in traffic on e-commerce sales.

Online shoppers saw the VeriSign seal approximately 789 million times, up roughly 50% year over year. VeriSign seals are common fixtures on web pages of leading merchants. The VeriSign Secured Seal indicates that the Web site is secured by SSL encryption and the identity of the business has been authenticated. VeriSign is the authorized directory provider for roughly over 89 million .com, .net, .cc, and .tv domain names.

VeriSign earlier announced an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net,

VeriSign to Raise .COM & .NET Prices

October 17, 2013December 21, 2009 by nicholas

VeriSign has recently announced that they will be raising .COM and .NET annual fees as of July 1st, 2010. ICANN has an agreement that VeriSign is allowed to raise their .COM fees by up to 7% per year. VeriSign took advantage of this in the first two years of its contract, raising .COM registration from $6.00 to $6.86. It was assumed that VeriSign would increase its prices every year to maximize profits, but it did not in 2009.

ICANN

October 17, 2013December 15, 2009 by brooke

ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers which oversees Internet related tasks on behalf of the US Government. The non-profit corporation’s headquarters is based in California, USA. Jon Postel founded ICANN on September 18th, 1998.

On September 29th, 2006, ICANN signed an agreement with United States Department of Commerce (DOC) that allows ICANN to completely manage the Internet system. ICANN is responsible for their decisions and can be punished for their actions.

Announcement Regarding Implementation of Modification to Implementation Rules for UDRP

October 17, 2013December 10, 2009 by nancy

The ICANN Board approved a modification to the Implementation Rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“Rules”). The modified Rules now require UDRP claimants and respondents to provide documents to UDRP Providers in electronic form. The modified Rules also change UDRP Provider obligations in forwarding hard copy notice to respondents in UDRP proceedings: the original Rules required Providers to forward a hard copy of the UDRP complaint; under the new Rules, Providers do not have to forward a hard copy of the entire complaint. Providers are now only required to forward a hard copy notice that a UDRP complaint has been filed.
The modified Rules will become mandatory for all UDRP proceedings filed on or after 1 March 2010.

IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch

October 17, 2013November 17, 2009 by nancy

16 November 2009, ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Track Process.

Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own lanuage. The Internet Corportation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a process for delegating a number of internationalized top-level domains.