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Rod Beckstrom

Type: Person

Name: Rod Beckstrom

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Biography for Rod Beckstrom

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 5 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Internet address change to transform the web

Internet regulator, Icann, has given the green light to allowing non-Latin-script web addresses in a move that will change the online world forever.At its annual meeting in Seoul, the board of Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ... [BritishComputerSociety - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Rod Beckstrom, ICANN, Seoul

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 3 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Cyberattacks Were Traced To NKorea

The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday. The IP address -- the Web equivalent of a street address or phone number -- that triggered ... [CIO Today - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Cyberattack, North Korea, South Korea, Rod Beckstrom, IP Address

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 12 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Peter Dengate Thrush

Internet shakeup looms

Seoul - A global regulatory body on Friday approved a new multilingual address system which it said would open up the Internet to millions more people worldwide.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced an end to the exclusive ... [IOL - 10/31/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, Seoul, Peter Dengate Thrush, Thrush

First Reported 10/31/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Chinese, Arabic Addresses Soon On Internet

Internet surfers will be able to use Web addresses written in Chinese, Arabic, Korean and other non-Latin alphabets by mid 2010, it was announced Friday.The landmark decision, designed to make the Web more accessible, was announced by the board of the ... [OfficialWire - 10/31/2009]

Entities: Rod Beckstrom, ICANN, Seoul

First Reported 11/01/2009 - Updated 11/01/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Non-alphabet web addresses for China et al

From next year, internet users in the roughly 50 per cent of the world that doesn't use the Roman alphabet will no longer have to struggle with the ABCs of domain names after web authorities voted to allow other scripts.The latest board meeting of the ... [TechRadar.com - 11/01/2009]

Entities: ICANN, China, Rod Beckstrom

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Cyrillic Internet addresses by year-end

Skopje, November 3 (MIA) - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board decision to introduce a so-called 'fast track' for internationalized domain names will provide the opportunity for Macedonian citizens to register domain ... [MTnet - 11/03/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Macedonia, Steve Crocker

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Internet addresses set for change

THE Internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world.The board of ICANN voted at its annual meeting in Seoul to allow domain names in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts.More ... [Nigeria Guardian - 11/04/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Domain Name System, Rod Beckstrom, Internet Protocol

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 46 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Internet set for language revolution

By Christian Oliver in Seoul and Kathrin Hille in Beijing , Financial Times, 30 Oct 2009The world body controlling internet addresses agreed on Friday to allow countries to mark their territory not only with their own abbreviations, such as .uk or .fr, ... [Nine MSN Money - 10/30/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Search Engines, Wang Peng, Christian Oliver

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 31 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Internet to get non-Latin web addresses

SEOUL, South Korea – The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - that can be written in languages other than English, an official ... [The Saudi Gazette - 10/27/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, Seoul, Marina del Rey (United States)

First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/28/2009 - 7 Documents (in Internet & IT)

ICANN set to approve non-Latin characters for internet

Baku- APA-ECONOMICS. The Internet is set for perhaps its biggest technical change ever, as a new multilingual address system will be approved this week, the global regulatory body said on Monday, AFP reported.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ... [Azeri-Press Information Agency - 10/28/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, Peter Dengate Thrush, Baku

First Reported 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/30/2009 - 5 Documents (in Internet & IT)

N Korea Blamed For July Cyber Attacks In US, S Korea

North Korea has been implicated in a series of cyber attacks in South Korea and the United States in July, according to South Korea’s spy agency chief.During the attack, several government and business Web sites were sluggish or completely disabled by ... [Red Orbit - 10/30/2009]

Entities: North Korea, South Korea, Rod Beckstrom, IP Address

First Reported 10/28/2009 - Updated 10/29/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Internet addresses to go non-English

A new technology that allows domain names or addresses to be written in languages other than English is set to revolutionise the Internet. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit group, believes that the application will open ... [digital opportunity channel - 10/29/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Rod Beckstrom, Seoul, Peter Dengate Thrush, Thrush

Quotes

"in seoul, we plan to move forward to the next step in the internationalization of the internet, which means that eventually people from every corner of the globe will be able to navigate much of the online world using their native language scripts" said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's CEO

ICANN May OK International Domains [Top Tech News - 11/05/2009]

"of the 1.6 billion internet users today worldwide, more than half use languages that have scripts that are not latin-based" said ICANN president and CEO Rod Beckstrom recently

Internet addresses set for change [Nigeria Guardian - 11/04/2009]

"this change is very much necessary for not only half the world's internet users today but more than half, probably, of the future users as the internet continues to spread" said Icann president and CEO Rod Beckstrom

ICAAN allows multiple language web addresses [Industry Standard - 11/02/2009]

...group that controls top-level domain codes for Internet addresses is poised to permit non-Latin language codes for the first time in its history. "it's the single biggest change in 10 or 15 years" said Rod Beckstrom, CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Internet names go global [CNN - 11/02/2009]

More Content

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Web Goes Global with International Domains [AllBusiness Champions of Small Business - 22 hours ago]
ICANN May OK International Domains [Top Tech News - 11/05/2009]
Internet addresses set for change [Nigeria Guardian - 11/04/2009]
ICANN Brings the Languages ... [Intellectual Property News Agency - 11/04/2009]
Cyrillic Internet addresses by year-end [MTnet - 11/03/2009]
Medvedev Gets Wish For .рф Domain [St. Petersburg Times Russia - 11/02/2009]
Internet address change to transform the web [BritishComputerSociety - 11/02/2009]
ICAAN allows multiple language web addresses [Industry Standard - 11/02/2009]
Internet names go global [CNN - 11/02/2009]
ICANN Allows Non-Latin Characters for Domains [Suite101.com - 11/02/2009]
Cyberattacks Were Traced To NKorea [CIO Today - 11/02/2009]
ICANN Approves International Domain Names [Information Week - 11/02/2009]
Reports: Cyberattacks Were Traced To NKorea [NewsFactor Network - 11/02/2009]
Cyberattacks 'traced to North Korea' [The Independent - 11/02/2009]
ICANN approves use of non-Latin alphabets in We... [IT in Canada - 11/02/2009]
ICANN approves new domain name process [Xinhua News Agency - 11/02/2009]
ICANN OKs International Domains: The Pros and Cons [Yahoo! News - 11/01/2009]
Web now truly worldwide as non-Latin scripts ge... [New Zealand Herald - 11/01/2009]
ICANN OKs International Domains: The Pros and C... [Yahoo! News - 11/01/2009]
ICANN OKs International Domains: The Pros and Cons [PC World - 11/01/2009]
Non-alphabet web addresses for China et al [TechRadar.com - 11/01/2009]
ICANN Approves Non-Latin Languages for Internet... [Epoch Times - 11/01/2009]
Chinese, Arabic Addresses Soon On Internet [OfficialWire - 10/31/2009]
Internet shakeup looms [IOL - 10/31/2009]
Approval of nonLatin website addresses is 'bigg... [Telegraph - 10/31/2009]
Icann Vote Paves Way For More Multilingual Inte... [Turkish Weekly - 10/31/2009]
Now you can log on in Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese [Drogheda Independent - 10/31/2009]
Non-Latin scripts OK in domain names [Detroit News - 10/31/2009]
Latin script loses hold on internet [PC Pro - 10/31/2009]
Latin alphabet to lose its dominance of Interne... [China Post - 10/31/2009]

Blogs

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Non–Latin Character Domain Names – Why Should W... [Search Engine Journal - 11/04/2009] An interesting thing happened last week. Scarily enough it was brought to my attention, not from my usual RSS feeds, but rather from my sister, who usually runs ...
Susan Moeller: Media Literacy 101: Losing Our A... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 10/30/2009] The online world as Americans know it is about to change. Big time. Today's decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin ...
Web Addresses Now Can Be All Greek to You, ICAN... [Wired: Epicenter - 10/30/2009] Domain names can soon be registered using Chinese characters or Cyrillic script, ending the exclusivity of the Latin alphabet in top level domain names, according ...
International Domain Names Are Coming in 2010 [Mashable! - 10/30/2009] The face of the Internet is about to change, and its potential impact on international Internet use cannot be understated. Earlier today, the Internet Corporation ...
ICANN Moves Ahead With Non-Latin Web Addresses ... [TechCrunch - 10/30/2009] As expected, regulatory body ICANN has approved plans to let web addresses be written in non-Latin characters in a move that it calls the “biggest technical change” ...

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