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Neustar has been selected as the back-end domain registry operator for the nation of Vanuatu. The company, and the Telecommunications Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulator, announced the appointment, which came after a competitive tender proce...
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August 13, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.vu, back-end, Domain Registries, IANA, migration, redelegation, telecom vanuatu, transition, TRBR, vanuatu
The new gTLD .gay, which was often used as an example of a controversial TLD that could be blocked from the DNS, has finally made it to the DNS. While no .gay domains are currently resolving, the TLD itself was added to the root zone over the weekend. ...
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August 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.gay, delegation, Domain Registries, IANA, root, top level design
ICANN has found itself involved in a debate about whether Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea should be recognized. It’s not unusual for ICANN to find itself in geopolitical controversies — see .amazon for the most recent example ̵...
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June 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
crimea, Domain Tech, IANA, time zones, tz database
The government of the Cook Islands is reportedly thinking about changing its name, putting a question mark over the long-term longevity of its .ck top-level domain. The AFP is reporting that an exploratory committee has been set up to pick a new name f...
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March 5, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.ck, Cook Islands, dick jokes, Domain Registries, IANA
ICANN chief technology officer David Conrad is now “overseeing” the IANA part of the organization, ICANN has announced. It doesn’t appear to be a promotion or change of job titles as much as a reporting structure adjustment made in th...
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February 27, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, IANA, pti
ICANN has deleted the new brand gTLD, dot .Spiegel by removing it from the IANA root zone. The German-owned brand gTLD never took off, having had only one domain, nic.spiegel, in the IANA database. That’s basically the default reserved Registry d...
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December 16, 2018 DomainGang
.brand domains, dot .Spiegel, IANA, Spiegel
The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned. The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS) acted illegally when it essentiall...
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November 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.nu, .SE, Domain Registries, IANA, iis, iusn foundation, niue, one.com, postel, redelegation, worldnames
ICANN is expected to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its Barcelona meeting next month, but by some measures it has already had its birthday. If you ask Wikipedia, it asserts that ICANN was “created” on September 18, 1998, 20 years ago tod...
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September 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, IANA, icann 63, Jon Postel, jones day, Network Solutions
Not even a month into the job, the US official with most direct responsibility over domain name policy has criticized ICANN for shutting down a security working group. David Redl, the new assistant secretary at the National Telecommunications and Infor...
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December 19, 2017 Kevin Murphy
abu dhabi, Domain Policy, gac, IANA, NTIA, ssr-2
The US government has been threatening to “close down” Costa Rica’s .cr registry over its refusal to take down a Pirate Bay domain name, according to the registry. Representatives of the US embassy in Costa Rica have been badgering NIC.cr to take down thepiratebay.cr since 2015, according to a letter from Pedro León Azofeifa, president […]
