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Rod Beckstrom

Type: Person

Name: Rod Beckstrom

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Biography for Rod Beckstrom

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

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

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 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 18 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Egypt applies for first Arabic domain name

Sharm El-Sheik - Egypt's technology minister says the country has applied to register an all-Arabic domain name.Information Technology Minister Tarek Kamel said on Monday that the measure will make the Internet accessible to the millions in the region ... [IOL - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Egypt, Tarek Kamel, Rod Beckstrom, Sharm El Sheikh, ICANN

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Reporters Sans Frontières

Egypt Grabs First Arabic Domain Name [Voices]

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 script domains, Egypt says it has seized the opportunity to register the first all-Arabic ... [All Things Digital - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Egypt, Tarek Kamel, Rod Beckstrom, Reporters Sans Frontières, ICANN

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Google Inc

The Net Widens: Non-Latin Domain Names Introduced

Egypt first to request web address in Arabic script.In a move that will make the Internet more accessible to millions of users, Egypt today became the first country to apply for an officially registered domain name using non-Latin script.Information Technology ... [Minyanville - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Google Inc, ICANN, Tarek Kamel, Egypt

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Tarek Kamel

World Wide Web inches closer to 'internationalization'

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt -- The first applications were accepted on Monday for internationalized domain names (IDNs), in one of the most significant steps to making the Internet more accessible around the globe. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ... [China Post - 11/18/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Tarek Kamel, Egypt, Rod Beckstrom

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents

ICANN CEO questioned over IP address monopoly

The (ICANN) has been questioned over its perceived monopoly of IP address space for the IPv6 protocol.At the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Egypt, Dr Sureswaran Ramadass of the Malaysian National Advanced IPv6 Centre (NAv6)asked ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom ... [Computerworld Australia - 11/18/2009]

Entities: ICANN, Internet Protocol Version 6, IP Address

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 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 10/30/2009 - Updated 10/31/2009 - 13 Documents (in Internet & IT)

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 10/27/2009 - 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

Quotes

...com and .org. 'It's an historic moment,' Beckstrom said. "of 1.6 billion (internet users), more than half are born using languages that do not use latin scripts, so this means that for more than half of users today of the internet, they will be able to type domain names entirely in their own language" he said. He said it would take time to process the applications but hoped that by 2010 the entries would make it to the internet

Web globalising [iafrica.com - 11/17/2009]

"if they (the chinese) have submitted the application now... then we would estimate, roughly at sometime in mid 2010" Beckstrom, president and CEO of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), told Xinhua on the sidelines of the 4th Internet Governance...

Internet to speak Chinese in 2010 [People's Daily Online - 11/17/2009]

More Content

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Internet Governance: An Oxymoron? [Discovery Channel - 11/19/2009]
CADNA Supports Greater Glob... [Intellectual Property News Agency - 11/19/2009]
Spurring IPv6 upgrades through "cash for (... [ArsTechnica - 11/19/2009]
World Wide Web inches closer to 'internationali... [China Post - 11/18/2009]
ICANN CEO questioned over IP address monopoly [Computerworld Australia - 11/18/2009]
Egypt applies for first Arabic domain name [IOL - 11/17/2009]
Web globalising [iafrica.com - 11/17/2009]
Internet to speak Chinese in 2010 [People's Daily Online - 11/17/2009]
Internet to speak Chinese in 2010 [People's Daily Online - 11/17/2009]
Internet to speak Chinese in 2010 [China Economic Net - 11/17/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [Yahoo! Canada - 11/16/2009]
Egypt Applies First for International Web Domain [CIO Magazine - 11/16/2009]
Global Internet Leaders Welcome Internationaliz... [DMN Newswire - 11/16/2009]
Egypt Applies First for International Web Domain [Industry Standard - 11/16/2009]
Egypt Applies First for International Web Domain [PC World - 11/16/2009]
Egypt Applies First for International Web Domain [NetworkWorld - 11/16/2009]
Egypt Applies For First International Domain Name [WebProNews Feed - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - Asia Pacific - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - Americas - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - Africa - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - Middle East - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - europe - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - france - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - Science - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - culture - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [France24 - Business - 11/16/2009]
Internationalised domain names debut [Bangkok Post - 11/16/2009]
Internet inches closer to 'internationalisation' [Economictimes - 11/16/2009]
The Net Widens: Non-Latin Domain Names Introduced [Minyanville - 11/16/2009]
Net gets set for language changes [BBC - 11/16/2009]

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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