[news release] The President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says all Internet stakeholders need to strive to keep Internet governance out of the hands of intergovernmental organizations. And if they fail, he warns, there could be unfortunate consequences. “Most Internet users – businesses, service providers, non-profits and consumers – would be shut out of the governance debate,” said Rod Beckstrom.

09|10|2010 5:31 pm EDT .ORG Prices To Increase April 2011 by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registries , Up to the Minute – 0 Comments In an announcement sent to registrars, the Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced that they would follow suit with the recent Verisign increases and increase prices for .ORG domains to $7.21 per domain name year on April 1st, 2011. The announcement reads: This is a notice by Public Interest Registry (PIR), pursuant to Section 7.3(B) of the Registry Agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and PIR, of a price increase for .ORG domain name registrations. Effective on April 1, 2011, at 0:00 UTC, the fee charged for domain name initial registrations, domain name renewals, and for transferring a domain name from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another will be US$7.21 per domain registration year

After only three weeks since its launch, nearly 410,000 .CO domain names have been registered in more than 180 countries worldwide. Among the more than 2,500 domains to be auctioned, the three with the most applicants are Slots.co, Insure.co and Denver.co.  Other notable .CO domain names up for auction include Mexi.co, America.co, Betting.co, Vitamins.co, UsedCars.co, Happy.co, Ebook.co and Jackpot.co. “As the .CO domain extension continues to generate global demand, I suspect we will see many exciting Landrush auctions for highly sought after domain names in the coming weeks,” said Lori Anne Wardi, Director of Marketing at .CO Internet S.A.S.

Since 1985, non-state actors under Jon Postel’s leadership have experimented creating virtual national spaces on the Internet through so-called “country code top level domain names” (ccTLDs). There are 251 ccTLDs on the Internet. In 1998, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the newly established coordination body for Internet addresses including ccTLDs – stressed out the principle of private sector leadership instead of public sector administration of Internet identifiers

Web Hosting News – REGENSBURG – BRUSSELS – This time the 38th Meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is taking place in Brussels, Belgium. As Brussels is home to the European Commission and the European Council, it is perfectly fitting that the .EU registry EURid is hosting the conference

The Bulgarian Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications has recently announced that they will propose four new cyrillic domain names. This decision was made due to the recent refusal of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers .ICANN has recently refused Bulgaria’s proposal for the cyrillic sufix “бг”

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: ICANN Introduces First Non-Latin Character Top-Level Domains News: Q&A: Anthony Bolner of Stream Data Centers News: Will Business Intelligence be the Next Big Software as a Service? News: SoftLayer Participates in Game Developer Conference This Week (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — For the first time in the history of the Internet, non-Latin top-level domains are now available for use with the launch of three Arabic-language TLDs. According to the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers ( www.icann.org ), the first IDN country-code TLDs were inserted in the domain name system root zone Wednesday, making Egypt (مصر), Saudi Arabia (السعودية), and the United Arab Emirates (امارات) the first countries to appear online as the result of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process.

Cybersquatting can have harmful effects on a brand’s reputation, sometimes serious, sometimes minor.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Chicago – April 22, 2010 Toronto – May 20, 2010 Boston – June 17, 2010 Five Most Recent Posts News: CenturyLink Acquires Telecom Qwest for $22.4B News: Five Bidders Make Short List for NSA’s $1.7B Utah Data Center News: Jordan Passes Internationalized Domain Name String Evaluation for Arabic ccTLD News: RackForce Extends ddsCloud to Enterprise Customers (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Making the Internet more accessible around the globe, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( www.icann.org ) opened the domain application process to non-Latin characters for website addresses with its inclusion of internationalised domain names last year. A proposed IDN ccTLD string for Jordan has successfully completed ICANN’s string evaluation, making it one step closer to having domains made up of Arabic characters.

Top Level Domain Holdings Limited reported its annual financial results .The report and accounts for the Period are being sent to shareholders and are available on the Company’s website. The following sets out the audited results for the Company for the year ended 31 October 2009