Bill Clinton Addresses ICANN March 2011

Remember back in the day when the Internet was in full swing and no TLD seemed out of bounds? This year’s March ICANN meeting in Silicon Valley/San Francisco gives domainers a sprinkling of that same flavor when Former United States President William Jefferson Clinton gives the keynote address for the domain namers gathered there.  Clinton formed ICANN back in 1998, when the World Wide Web needed strong controls, formal structure, and organized oversight. Domaining partners sponsoring the upcoming  event will shoulder the fee, which will not be insubstantial. Predictions of  the opening line of the address go something like, “Ask not what your domain can do for you, but what can you do for your domain”. The deep pockets of the players and the global reach of the talent has raised eyebrows, making one domainer comment, “Bob Parsons could probably get the Queen”.

Triple X Stutters in Cartagena

The flow of all things toward a triple x TLD may have slowed somewhat. ICANN has yet to blaze a trail of “Yes”, although this is the big “Y” that in this case come before ‘X”. This week’s Cartajenan cartel o’ domainers lagged and dragged their usual feet and decided much of nothing quick-like. The public comment period for the triple X domain TLD is now open, and what a roistering circus it promises to be.

To those domainers automatically knee-jerked into ponying up another renewal fee for an undesirable domain TLD, comment here. To those who have to pay the one time phase for nullifying their extant name with the opprobrious Triple-X TLD assignee, comment here. Other curious domainers who are not very much concerned can track the way other herd members are crowding here. Reporting ongoing on this topic.

Is ICANN XXX Crazy?

Vaunted and august Internet governing body ICANN seems to have its feathers in a knot over the latest TLD trying to make it to the Show as a top level domain. Avid domain speculators and adult name domain owners are watching the latest reports to determine which way the metronome is leaning. The ICANN  “relaxation” of top level domain application rules may prove too much for some online groups.

The triple X connotations are obvious to anyone over ten years old, so the ICANN group has its hands full trying to contain web possibilities, Many career domainers can’t believe the staid ICANN body  approved a commercial entity that will legitimize and focus pornography and be viewed as a negative force on line for misogyny, the rights of women, and ongoing freedom of the press issues.

ICANN isn’t completely sold on .xxx yet. The group must first conduct  due diligence  of applicant ICM’s business plan for the domain.  The ICANN board will then review the contract proposed for the operation of the .xxx domain. The issue will most probably go to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, next scheduled to meet in December in Colombia.

If ICM gets impatient they can talk to the other derby losers for the ICANN TLD apply,-pay-and-wait process. Remember those dot-kids and other domain rejections ICANN so astutely rendered judgement on? Maybe ICANN may realize they were wrong about those, too.

Triple X Adult TLD to Realize?

The triple X adult domain top level domain may be coming to the Web, industry watchers report. The domainers watching this industry quake wonder if the adult online industry, mostly composed of fee-paid video and image services related to pornography, can be a reasonable addition to Internet commerce as such. The lines are being drawn on both sides of the TLD divide.

Those watching the ICANN approval for XXX tld domains are agog after the early days of non-proliferation of web suffixes denoting non-general acceptable matter. While adult sites are a reality and a great commerce builder garnering record traffic and income in every demo, the fact remains they are not welcomed by every hosting company or router online.

Sexually explicit site masters and name owners would be expected to flock to the dot-triple-x tld. Yet the domains in existence now for adult and porn names would putatively lose value and legacy traffic. Not all webmasters are ready to give this up and conjoin their fray to a limited dot tld. Security   software makers and parental control mechanisms for computer devices would be affected.

The opposite side of the coin, the dot-kids suffix, was never approved by ICANN because it was deemed to difficult to patrol and protect. Can ICANN recover some of its lost luster as the Internet regulator? Or will ICANN critics finally have something solid to bring to bear in challenging the agency’s management and ongoing oversight of domain name and web issues? Time will tell.

Strict Domain Rules on Horizon

The governing bodies who rule over the domain world have been tightening their practices all over the world, including Russia and China. While domainers worldwide know how to leverage their contacts and connections to register domains, the powers that be intend to limit that dynamic in future.

Law enforcement officials working in the technology sector in the U.K. and U.S. are requesting that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place stronger measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system. At every level of the game, the internet is becoming more regulated.

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

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