AusRegistry International has spread its registry wings wider, having been contracted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Oman to provide registry software and supporting services for the establishment of a new Domain Name Registry System in the Sultanate. The new registry software will be used for both the existing .OM ccTLD and the planned عمان. (.OMAN) Arabic script internationalised country-code Top-Level Domain (IDN ccTLD)

Along with the Map of Egypt entire global Internet community, ICANN is watching the events unfolding in Egypt with great concern for the safety of the people of Egypt and for their ability to use the Internet. On January 27, most Internet connectivity to Egypt was shut down, apparently on the instruction of the national government.

Hosting News – Riyadh and Cologne – Voxeo, the leading provider of Unlocked Communications™ solutions and 2Share (Emerging Technology Holding Co.), the pioneer of voice portals & enabler of voice recognition technologies in the Arab world, today announced a partnership that will bring Unified Self-Service™ solutions for phone channels such as IVR, SMS, Instant Messaging, and others to countries like Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt. Customers will benefit from this relationship since they do not need to invest in hardware, software or IT staff to operate a system that is provided by 2Share and Voxeo.

A screen shot of a WikiLeaks App developed by a third-party firm (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As pressure continues to mount against WikiLeaks, supporters of the whistle-blower website have been distributing its controversial leaked cables through other means. Two Jordanian news websites, AmmanNet.net and 7iber.com (which means ink in Arabic), said on Tuesday they have begun translating into Arabic WikiLeaks-released cables issued by the US embassy in Amman regarding Jordan and the Arab region. In a joint statement, the news websites said they “began this week posting..

A screen shot of a WikiLeaks App developed by a third-party firm (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As pressure continues to mount against WikiLeaks, supporters of the whistle-blower website have been distributing its controversial leaked cables through other means. Two Jordanian news websites, AmmanNet.net and 7iber.com (which means ink in Arabic), said on Tuesday they have begun translating into Arabic WikiLeaks-released cables issued by the US embassy in Amman regarding Jordan and the Arab region. In a joint statement, the news websites said they “began this week posting…

GMS Cloud offers a secure hosted messaging solution at a low-cost entry point for organizations that require a flexible and accessible solution. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Enterprise-class messaging products developer Gordano ( www.gordano.com ) has launched a full service hosted messaging platform based on the Gordano Messaging Suite that offers a full service mix of comprehensive core email, webmail and Outlook groupware solutions. According to Gordano’s Tuesday announcement, GMS Cloud ( www.gms-cloud.com ) is priced starting at $2.85 per month for a Standard account, and $7.50 per month for Professional, which includes full Outlook integration

The two email addresses used in the test, and the .alordon domain, rendered in Arabic (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Internet infrastructure provider Afilias ( www.afilias.info ) reported this week that it is, in partnership with the National Information Technology Center of Jordan, producing the first public demonstration of an email message between two internationalized email addresses in the Arabic language, using Afilias’s new IDN email technology and the IDN TLD from the .jo registry. “With the 83 percent of the world’s population estimated to be non-English speaking, this is an important first step in bringing a useful Internet to the majority of the world’s Internet users, which were previously shut out of using the Internet in their native language,” says John Kane, vice president of corporate services for Afilias, quoted in the company’s press release. “The adoption of IDN domain names has been inhibited by the lack of technical support within email programs for internationalized addresses which would still be compatible with the global DNS system

Jordan has become the most recent nation or territory to launch an internationalised top-level domain (IDN) as part of ICANNs IDN FastTrack process. The nation’s Information Technology Centre (NITC) has announced the launch of the Arabic IDN .الاردن. (.alordon)

In an article looking at cybersecurity, The Financial Times notes that in 2009 “US Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared cyberspace to be the ‘fifth domain’ of military operations, alongside land, sea, air and space.” In 2010, General Keith Alexander “is the first boss of USCybercom, the United States Cyber Command, in charge of the Pentagon’s sprawling cyber networks and tasked with battling unknown enemies in a virtual world.” In his confirmation hearing, the FT says, General Alexander sounded the alarm, declaring that the Pentagon’s computer systems “are probed 250,000 times an hour, up to six million per day”, and that among those attempting to break in were “more than 140 foreign spy organisations trying to infiltrate US networks”. Congress was left with a dark prophecy ringing in its ears: “It’s only a small step from disrupting to destroying parts of the network.” This 3,500 word article also claims that “there are areas where American control over the administration of the web is slipping.

The Saudi Arabian Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced that the Landrush phase of Arabic domain names registration under السعودية. has officially began. The Landrush phase commenced at 10:00 on Monday 18th Shawwal 1431 H (27 September 2010 for the rest of us).