Company that made a big .com domain purchase in 2010 launches a new product on .co in 2011. Top10.com Media Ltd is no stranger to domain names. Last year the company forked over $1 million in cash and equity for the domain name Top10.com, which it uses for his communications service comparison engine

[news release] ICANN has announced that two seasoned professionals have been hired to bolster its contractual compliance team. Maguy Serad, an experienced technology and business manager, has been named Senior Director of Contractual compliance. Ms.

A computer generated image of UOL’s flagship data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Brazilian Web hosting provider Universo Online ( www.uol.com.br ) announced on Wednesday that it has completed the acquisition of US-based IT services firm Diveo Broadband Networks ( www.diveo.net ) for about $413 million. UOL said that it will merge Diveo’s operations with its subsidiary DH&C Outsourcing. “The amount paid to the (Diveo) shareholders was BRL693.5 million, and an additional amount of BRL19.4 million was deposited in an escrow account for future adjustments,” UOL said.

At the ICANN meeting held in Cartagena, Colombia, from 5 to 10 December, it was agreed there would be an intersessional meeting to be held between ICANN and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) before the San Francisco meeting, to be held from 13 to 18 March, in the interest of resolving outstanding issues with the new gTLD process. The GAC Communiqué that came out as a result of the meeting notes “that the GAC will provide the Board at the earliest opportunity with a list or “scorecard” of the issues which the GAC feels are still outstanding and require additional discussion between the Board and the GAC.

Global collaboration against cyber security threats is one of the key themes of the ICANN meeting currently being held in Cartagena, Colombia according to the ICANN CEO and President Rod Beckstrom. Beckstrom has called for the increased global sharing of information about security risks and escalating threats to the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). “Good security measures cannot be developed in a vacuum,” said Rod Beckstrom

The relaunch of .CO has proved to be a resounding success to date with the registry announcing they have passed the 600,000 active registrations mark as of 24 November. The relaunch of .CO, the ccTLD for Colombia, took place earlier this year and it has been four months since registrations were available to the general public.

As the .CO ccTLD continues its impressive growth in registrations, the registrar .CO Internet has breathlessly claimed .CO is challenging .COM.