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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:06 PM

ICANN

Type: Organization

Name: ICANN

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents

US Still Has Internet In Its Grip

According to participants at a recent internet governance forum, the Internet is still under the control of the U.S., despite a move by America to loosen its grip over the private corporation that administers the net.The US Commerce Department and Internet ... [Red Orbit - 11/19/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Developing World, Jean-Jacques Subrenat, International University of Japan

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Internet Governance: An Oxymoron?

The idea that one government, one organization, or a single group "controls the Internet" is laughable. In my reporting lately, I heard someone refer to the 'Net as "modulated anarchy." I like that. But that, of course, doesn't stop some from trying to ... [Discovery Channel - 11/19/2009]

Entities: ICANN, United States Government, Rod Beckstrom, Sharm El Sheikh

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Stephen Timms

Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims

Tags: Icann, ISPA, TLD, NominetISPs have strongly disagreed with government claims that they back the anti-copyright-infringement measures proposed in the Digital Economy Bill, and UK-based registries have expressed outrage at the idea of the government ... [ZDNet UK - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Telnic Limited, ICANN, United Kingdom, Stephen Timms

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Rod Beckstrom

Spurring IPv6 upgrades through "cash for (network) clunkers"

At the Internet Governance Forum meeting here in Egypt, a session on critical Internet resources started with yet another discussion of the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This time, talk turned to paying for the upgrade to IPv6—a real issue in poorer ... [ArsTechnica - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Internet Protocol Version 6, IPv4, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

CADNA Supports Greater Glob...

WASHINGTON - The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) announced in a press release that it supports enhancing the ability of users to navigate the Web in their own languages but urges the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ... [Intellectual Property News Agency - 11/19/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Abuse, Cybercrime

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Announcement: Critical Internet Infrastructure WG is Now Open to Public Participation

ISOTF Critical Internet Infrastructure WG is now open to public participation.The group holds top experts on internet technology, critical infrastructure, and internet governance, from around the globe.Together, we discuss definitions, problems, challenges ... [CircleID - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Gadi Evron, ICANN, Network Operations

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

New gTLD Expressions of Interest: Proceed with Caution

The ICANN Board, at its October 2009 annual meeting in Seoul, passed a resolution directing staff to prepare an analysis regarding the feasibility of ICANN soliciting Expressions of Interests (EOIs) from prospective applicants for new Generic Top Level ... [CircleID - 11/20/2009]

Entities: ICANN, EOIs, Directing Staff, Seoul

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

A Thought About Not-Quite-ASCII Top Level Domains

ICANN has opened their new fast track process for 'countries and territories that use languages based on scripts other than Latin' to get domain names that identify the country or territory in its own language. It's not clear to me what the policy is ... [CircleID - 11/20/2009]

Entities: American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ICANN, Serbia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Egypt creates first Arabic domain name

Egypt is launching the first internet domain name to use the Arabic script, following ICANN's decision to allow non-Latin top level domains.The new suffix is pronounced 'masr', meaning 'Egypt'.The announcement follows the decision by the Internet Corporation ... [TG Daily - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Egypt, ICANN, Jerry Yang

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Intellectual Property Rights)

Kyrgyz State Service for Intellectual Property applies to ICANN for delegation of Cyrillic top level domain

19-11-2009 Kyrgyz State Service for Intellectual Property applies to ICANN for delegation of Cyrillic top level domain ... [AKI Press - 11/19/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Intellectual Property

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Official Statement by Telnic Limited on Digital Economy Bill

Telnic Limited (http://telnic.tel) is the UK-based Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organisation for the global communications-focused Top Level Domain (TLD) .tel. It operates as the Registry for all domain names ending in .tel, acting under the aegis ... [PR Newswire via MSN Money - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Telnic Limited, ICANN, UK Government, United Kingdom, Official Statement

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

ISACA Warns Increase in Web Site Characters Could Lead to More Phishing Attacks

A recent announcement by ICANN regarding international domain names poses some security risks, according to ISACA, a global association of IT security, audit and governance professionals.ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) recently ... [IT Backbones - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Phishing, ICANN, Peter Wood

Quotes

...from the use of web addresses written only in the Roman alphabet so that users around the world can write them in their own languages and scripts. "Kenya will have a chance to market its ICT industry as a viable Business Processing Outsourcing centre. Most of all, Kenya will be marketed as a key tourism destination in Africa" said Dr Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary Ministry of Information and Communication during a media briefing in Nairobi on Thursday

Kenya: New Initiative Seeks to Widen Internet Usage by Kenyans [AllAfrica.com - 19 hours ago]

"As currently phrased, this bill may be misunderstood as an attempt by the UKUK government to overrule Icann's authority, without any attempt to canvas the views of the industry such a move would affect" Telnic said

Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't claims [ZDNet UK - 20 hours ago]

More Content

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Kenya to host global ICT meet [CapitalFM - 8 hours ago]
Egypt Applies for First Non-Roman Web Domain [SOA World Magazine - 18 hours ago]
Kenya: New Initiative Seeks to Widen Internet U... [AllAfrica.com - 19 hours ago]
Digital Economy Bill: Industry disputes gov't c... [ZDNet UK - 20 hours ago]
UK Digital Economy Bill proposes to take contro... [Computer Weekly - 21 hours ago]
UK government talks up the digital economy [TheInquirer.net - 23 hours ago]
ISACA Warns Increase in Web Site Characters Cou... [IT Backbones - 23 hours ago]
Official Statement by Telnic Limited on Digital... [PR Newswire via MSN Money - 11/20/2009]
What's Driving Spam and Domain Fraud? Illicit D... [CircleID - 11/20/2009]
A Thought About Not-Quite-ASCII Top Level Domains [CircleID - 11/20/2009]
New gTLD Expressions of Interest: Proceed with ... [CircleID - 11/20/2009]
Announcement: Critical Internet Infrastructure ... [CircleID - 11/20/2009]
Internet Governance: An Oxymoron? [Discovery Channel - 11/19/2009]
Web inventor to visit Kenya [Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - 11/19/2009]
CADNA Supports Greater Glob... [Intellectual Property News Agency - 11/19/2009]
US Still Has Internet In Its Grip [Red Orbit - 11/19/2009]
Cyber warfare on the horizon [West Australia Sunday Times - 11/19/2009]
Spurring IPv6 upgrades through "cash for (... [ArsTechnica - 11/19/2009]
Life In Beta--How Design thinking Can Help Us N... [BusinessWeek - 11/19/2009]
Kyrgyz State Service for Intellectual Property ... [AKI Press - 11/19/2009]
Egypt creates first Arabic domain name [TG Daily - 11/19/2009]
US 'still dominates internet' [Times Live South Africa - 11/19/2009]
IGF Discusses Diversity and Disability, GAID Of... [Intellectual Property News Agency - 11/19/2009]
Cybersecurity: Do women count? [Gender IT - 11/19/2009]
Internet still under US grip [Australian IT - 11/19/2009]
Internet still under US grip: forum delegates [France24 - Americas - 11/18/2009]
Internet still under US grip: forum delegates [France24 - Science - 11/18/2009]
Internet still under US grip: forum delegates [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/18/2009]
ICANN attendees: America, surrender the root zo... [ArsTechnica - 11/18/2009]
United States: Fast-Track Option For Domain Nam... [Mondaq - 11/18/2009]

Blogs

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Spurring IPv6 upgrades through "cash for (... [Ars Technica - 11/19/2009] At the Internet Governance Forum meeting here in Egypt, a session on critical Internet resources ...
ICANN attendees: America, surrender the root zo... [Ars Technica - 11/18/2009] Back in October, the US Commerce Department changed its agreement with the Internet Corporation for ...
Egypt Grabs First Arabic Domain Name [Voices] [All Things Digital - 11/16/2009] By Cassandra Vinograd, Reporter, The Wall Street JournalOn the first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened registration for non-Latin ...
Egypt Grabs First Arabic Domain Name [Voices] [All Things Digital - 11/16/2009] By Cassandra Vinograd, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal On the first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened registration for non-Latin ...
First Arabic domain name registration to begin ... [The Next Web - 11/15/2009] As of 22:00 GMT Today, the first Arabic domain name registration will begin, marking an end to Latin-only domain names online. .misr (.مصر) domains will be up for ...

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