Dot VN,has recently announced that its partner ,the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) agreed to help the Laotian Internet Network Information Center (LANIC) to reclaim and relaunch the Laos ccTLD .LA .

[news release] The American Bankers Association (ABA) and BITS, the technology policy division of The Financial Services Roundtable, are working to prepare the financial services industry for potential new financial gTLDs and have teamed with VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, to serve as their exclusive registry operator.

As part of the ALAC/At-Large Improvements Project, the Office of the General Counsel – in coordination with the ALAC, At-Large Improvements Work Team A, and the At-Large Staff – drafted proposed Bylaw revisions to reflect the ALAC’s continuing purpose within ICANN. These revisions were prepared in response to the Final Report of the ALAC Review Working Group on ALAC Improvements [PDF, 270 KB] (Final Report; 9 June 2009).  The Final Report recommended that the ICANN Bylaws be modified to reflect ALAC’s role (i) in providing advice on policy, (ii) in providing input into ICANN’s operations and structure, (iii) as part of ICANN’s accountability mechanisms, and (iv) as an organizing mechanism for some of ICANN’s outreach (p

An image from the Open Compute Project, showing some of Facebook’s data center design Every now and then, an exciting or controversial issue triggers a flood of online discourse.

[news release] VeriSign , Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, announced today that .com — the Internet’s largest domain with more than 90 million domain name registrations worldwide — now supports DNS Security Extensions ( DNSSEC ). Deploying DNSSEC in the .com domain signals that Verisign has achieved a critical milestone in improving the integrity of Internet communications and the security of Domain Name System (DNS) transactions.

A screen shot of NetBenefit’s PCI compliance page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider NetBenefit ( www.netbenefit.com ) announced on Tuesday it has attained Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard compliance following a detailed audit of its hosting environment by qualified security assessor, CNS.

A map of the proposed area for Verizon’s data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Verizon has pulled the plug on its plans to build a $4 billion data center near Buffalo, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . Verizon announced its change of plans on Thursday, after problems with a lawsuit from a local resident and delays in acquiring the land.  The Wall Street Journal reports that the land owner’s attorney, Arthur Giacalone, says Verizon used the lawsuit as an excuse to back out of New York.  Data Center Knowledge says that Mary Ann Rizzo, the owner of land adjacent to the proposed site, “filed suit against the Niagra IDA and six other agencies because she felt a proper environmental review was not conducted.” Verizon first announced plans for its New York data center in October 2010. Once completed, the project would have represented a total investment of about $4.5 billion.

03|16|2011 6:27 pm EDT VeriSign Announces 25th .COM Anniversay Grant Winners by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute – 0 Comments Four universities have been chosen to receive grants of $75,000 each for their research teams to pursue projects aimed at strengthening Internet infrastructure.

A map of Equinix’s data center footprint in France (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Equinix ( www.equinix.com ) announced on Tuesday it is constructing a fourth International Business Exchange data center in the Paris metropolitan area. The new data center, which is set to open in the third quarter of 2012, will further extend Platform Equinix in Europe to meet strong demand for premium interconnection and colocation services in Paris and across the region

A screen shot of CloudFlare’s interface (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider A2 Hosting ( www.a2hosting.com ) announced on Thursday it has partnered with CloudFlare ( www.cloudflare.com ) to offer its content delivery network solution for free to its web hosting customers.