ICANN has announced they believe they will garner support from the internet community and be in a position to launch the new generic Top Level Domains on 20 June at the beginning of their 41st public meeting to be held in Singapore. “We’ve had other timelines before, but not one that the community and the Board feels is so achievable as this one,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Board of Directors. “Most of the hard issues are on the table or behind us.” Dengate Thrush made the comments in a video interview following ICANN’s 40th public meeting in San Francisco

John Rumery Holland-based web and software development firm, Elevator Up , has added two new hires in the last three months with intent to aggressively grow the web-hosting side of their business.  Dan Ryan, system engineer, was hired in the early summer and Dennis Walters, lead developer, was brought on in August.  Both Ryan and Walters had previously worked together at Liquid Web, a Lansing-based technology firm.

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