ICANN

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted overwhelmingly for the proposal to allow the introduction of new website domain suffixes by private companies, enabling major firms to replace ".com" with their own brand. The voting took place at a meeting in Singapore.

"This is the biggest change to domain names since the creation of '.com' 26 years ago," said Theo Hnarakis, chief executive of Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services, a California-based company that provides online branding services.

Like it or not but a new .xxx top level domain name for porn industry is coming this year. Last week the Board of Directors of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved entering into a contract with ICM Registry to operate a .xxx top level domain name (TLD).

First domain names with the new TLD are planned to start later this year and the price will range from $75 to $100 each.

As the Internet is running out of its space a press conference will be held this week in Miami to decide on the last allocation of the Internet Protocol Version 4 addresses. The conference will be conducted by the central authority that assigns them.

According to an advisory sent Tuesday the meeting will gather four nonprofit organizations that coordinate the Internet's addressing system including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Number Resources Organization, the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Society.

On Friday the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the Internet on behalf of the U.S. government, is expected to grant its approval to the creation of dot-xxx suffix for websites with explicit pornographic content. It is known that for some time the corporation has resisted the creation of .xxx generic domain names system that is similar to those of dot-com and dot-net.

This week addressing the Government Advisory Committee meeting Rod Beckstrom, CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers stated that more concerted efforts are needed to protect the DNS because it is under more attacks, is fragile and vulnerable, and "can stop any time."

Beckstrom touched upon DNS abuse cases by some unspecified countries and promised to write to GAC members for more information and advice on DNS in their countries.

A recent report revealed that 77% of Internet domains, which is about 90 million Internet addresses, are registered with false, incomplete, or unverifiable information.

ICANN conducted an extensive review of 1,419 representative domain names including direct contact with over 500 individual domain owners. The review shows that only 23% of domain registrations display the owner's correct name and physical address.

 The body in charge of assigning the world's Internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which approved the change at a meeting in Seoul, said in a statement it could lead to a dramatic rise in the number of Internet users.

 This week the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is holding a meeting in Seoul where the participants will be discussing one of the biggest changes of the Internet in its 40 years history. ICANN is expected to approve international domain names that can be written in languages other than English.

 On Wednesday September 30 an 11-year series of memorandums of understanding between ICANN and the US Department of Commerce expired. The same day the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reached a new agreement with the DOC that allows the nonprofit greater independence, while giving more countries oversight of the organization.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) went before a Congressional panel today to defend its plan to create an unlimited number of new Internet domains (like.web, .food, etc.) I was a witness at the hearing, which made one thing clear: the “consensus” on new Internet domains is not as strong as ICANN would have us think.