Dot Music Fronts TLD name Success

The .Music (Dot Music)url destination claims two million global subscribrs to the domain based music portal. This unique music interchange serves as the type of platform many TLD applications to ICANN envision but can be speculative about potential for delivery. The .music address story serves as a functional exemplar to the success many ICANN TLD formation. applications strive for.

ICANN Wrestles Character Alphabets

ICANN is developing Web addresses that can be written in other languages. Suffix, such as the “com” after the dot, must be typed in Roman letters. The suffix known as a TLD on the Internet  expressed in 17 other alphabets. ICANN directors and advisors meet in Seoul this week to wrestle technical issues. Characters look the same but mean something different, which is particularly difficult with Chinese, the language that may someday be one of the most heavily used for Internet addresses.

Foreign Generics Ramping Up

 

Geo TLD Flood Garners Industry Scrutiny

 

 

Int’l Doms get ICANN nod

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is expected to take another step on Friday. ICANN, during its annual meeting in Seoul, Korea, will vote on the internationalized domain names (IDN) initiative, better known as the Fast Track. 

It will provide nations with their own country-code domain names and make the Internet more accessible to millions of people in Asia and the Middle East who speak and read in Arabic, Chinese and Korean.

If approved, the launch of the Fast Track process would be Nov. 16

Review ICANN policy for disputed domains…

ICANN holds that passive holding of a disputed domain name permits an unlawful inference of registration and domain use in bad faith. The other two tenets of disputed domains are that  no use of the domain name or website that connected with the domain name is occurring, and that the domain holder is not widely known by that name.

For a good example, review the complaint filed with ICANN by West Coast University against a Chinese domain owner for www.wcuedu.us. The decision marks an ICANN enforcement of these elements and domain use dynamics.

TLD’s in motion

Top Level Domain development continues apace. For those naysayers who pitched up that all top level domains and their most preferable names had been snapped up, this is a bit of a comedown. Developing TLD launchpads names continue to be promoted and articulated worldwide.

ICANN Chief Speaketh…

A new era has dawned for Icann. The new age has started in the Internet domain space, echoing the new blood in the White House and elsewhere. What significant changes will domainers see? The opening remarks for the new agenda by the new internet czar has domainers talking…

“First, let me say that I am thrilled to be on board as ICANN’s CEO and President. The moment I joined this exciting organization I found it working on an incredible range of activities involving an array of constituencies.

Without doubt, ICANN is the most complex organization I have ever come across, necessarily, at least in part, because we must navigate through a sea of stakeholder groups, some of which have been formalized in our bylaws, and all of which have an interest in global Internet names, addressing and parameters.

To ensure each address is unique, ICANN must take on the difficult role of bringing about clarity among these same stakeholders. In the end, every single name must be unique and only one party can own it.

This is no small task, with nearly 200 million unique names registered and for many of these names there are many different parties who would like to own or control them. What I find impressive is that, despite the many competing pressures in this environment, ICANN has been able to fulfill its core functions in the 11 years since its inception, and has emerged as a strong, stakeholder driven group.

My vision as we move forward is to support a globally unified Internet on which addressing remains unique to ensure interoperability. In this Internet world, a merchant in Bali can effortlessly send an email to a businesswoman in Tokyo. Anyone anywhere will be able to interact with anyone else anywhere else in the world, so long as they both can access the Internet. ICANN is already taking steps toward enhancing this functionality.

Icann Forms Up In July for ccTLD’s

ICANN has consolidated and developed the ccTLD platforms for the following countries in July 2009: Portugal, Paraguay, Vanuatu, and Haiti.

 

2 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Portugal (.PT)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Paraguay (.PY)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Vanuatu (.VU)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Uruguay (.UY)
1 July 2009	ICANN Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Haiti (.HT)

Domainers Scowl at ICANN junket dollars

ICANN now spends 22% of its budget on travel and meetings in far-flung locales worldwide. Is it looking to build grass-roots support for its decisions or using its growing financial resources to influence various power players in the domain name community?

The group responsible for managing the Web’s domain name system, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has grown in the 11 years since its inception to become a powerful organization with a nearly $55 million budget built on the domain registration fees it receives.

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