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 ICANN’s Name Collision Block List. The released list contains many great generic keywords that could … Read More
Tag Archives: ICANN
COO Doug Brent leaving ICANN
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 … Read More
VeriSign Registers Record Numbers
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 … Read More
VeriSign to Raise .COM & .NET Prices
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 … Read More
ICANN
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 … Read More
Announcement Regarding Implementation of Modification to Implementation Rules for UDRP
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 … Read More
IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch
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 … Read More