India Head Samiran Gupta has called on India to take leadership role in governance of the web for being the largest democracy in the world and its heritage of “frugal” innovation and…
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Welsh government to make the .wales & .cymru switch within months
Welsh government official internet addresses will be switched over from .gov.uk to .cymru and .wales starting next year!
France pushes ICANN to halt issue of .wine & .vin domain names
French Government is whining about the .wine and .vin domain names, demanding more influence for a specific reason – world’s leading wine producer!
US Gov announces plans to relinquish control over internet
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) made an announcement on Friday that it is transitioning the function to the “global Internet community” and will give up its oversight…
‘.London’ domains to launch on April 29
Dot London Domains Ltd has announced that the new .london web address will be open to public on 29 April 2014. This makes London, the UK capital one of the first cities…
New DotShabaka domain goes live
The launch of Arabic dot-shabaka (شبكة.) extension has marked the beginning of a new era for internet registrations. The Arabic net address ending in شبكة. – pronounced dot shabaka, and meaning web…
DNSSEC surpasses 50% implementation milestone
ICANN has announced that majority of top level domains in the root have DNSSEC and the overall implementation of the DNS Security Extensions has surpassed 50 percent milestone. Described as one of…
Nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, .clothing up for grabs
Internet Corporate for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the availability of nine new gTLDs including .guru, .singles, and .clothing. To be made available from January 2014 publicly, the new gTLDs…
London gets its own gTLD ‘.london’
London is the first city in the world to have been granted its own gTLD ‘.London’ and will be made available to thousands of businesses in the city starting spring 2014. The…
GoDaddy waves green at gTLD land rush; initiates sale of first batch of domain names
GoDaddy has opened doors to prospects for the first registration of new domains as a part of ICANN’s generic top-level domain (gTLD) plan. The domain dealer has announced that it will be…
ICANN begins gTLD expansion
Internet’s governing body, ICANN, has signaled the massive expansion of internet domain names by rolling out four new gTLD. The new domain names that are set to go live are regional domain…
New Domain Names Face Government Objections
Over 240 companies and organizations looking to register new top level domain names have faced early objections from the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). The committee represents around 50 of the world’s governments…