MARINA DEL REY, CA – At the Prague Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting, the new gTLD Program Committee decided to terminate Digital Archery, and instructed ICANN staff to proceed with the initial evaluation of applications as quickly as possible. This evaluation, according to ICANN, is in progress based on a tentative [...]
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ICANN Seeks Input on gTLD Batching – ag-IP
Monday, July 30th, 2012Google & Amazon, Two Of The Largest gTLD Applicants Team Up To Form A …
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012Google and Amazon, two of biggest applicants for new gTLD’s just teamed up to form the InternetAssociation.org a new lobbying group. According to the Washington Post other founding members include eBay and Facebook. According the Internet Association’s website: “The Internet Association is the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests of America’s leading [...]
Valve confirms Steam for Ubuntu on new Linux Blog
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012It has long been rumoured, with screen-shots, videos and even script leaking out all over the web, that Valve was intending to port its Steam gaming platform to Linux. Well yesterday Valve made this rumour official, announcing on its new Linux Blog that the team was indeed working on porting its famous platform over to [...]
Valve confirms Steam for Ubuntu 12.04, L4D2 as first game
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012We first heard about a possible port of Steam and the Source engine for Linux back in April when Michael Larabel of Phoronix visited Valve’s offices. He confirmed Linux was a platform Valve had been thinking about for a while, and the project had been moving along slowly in the background. Then, last month Gabe [...]
Free Guide Available for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Thursday, July 5th, 2012Free Guide Available for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS by Sam Dean – Jul. 05, 2012Comments (0) One of the reasons that Ubuntu is such a popular Linux distribution is that the free manuals available for it are efficiently kept up-to-date and easy-to-follow. Now, the Ubuntu Manual Project has delivered Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04, a very timely [...]
ICANN Officially Kills Digital Archery
Thursday, June 28th, 2012ICANN has officially killed off the Digital Archery program in an announcement today. “”Resolved the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07.” Rationale for Resolution: “To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital [...]
ICANN Officially Kills Digital Archery
Thursday, June 28th, 2012ICANN has officially killed off the Digital Archery program in an announcement today. “”Resolved the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07.” Rationale for Resolution: “To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital [...]
ICANN Officially Kills Digital Archery
Thursday, June 28th, 2012ICANN has officially killed off the Digital Archery program in an announcement today. “”Resolved the New gTLD Program Committee directs the President and CEO to terminate the Digital Archery process as approved in Resolutions 2011.12.08.04-2011.12.08.07.” Rationale for Resolution: “To remain accountable to the ICANN community, after careful consideration of the objections raised to the digital [...]
Paul Sloan Writes For Cnet On Amazon’s 76 New gTLD Applications …
Friday, June 22nd, 2012So what we’re really seeing in this process is that these shell companies and more recognisable companies that are going for generic strings are telling all the world that “Yes, we too are domainers. We want to own all the possible strings that users might type.” That is why any registry Applicant that tell us [...]
Canonical launches Ubuntu App Showdown
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced the Ubuntu App Showdown, a contest calling on developers to submit original applications for inclusion in the Ubuntu repositories. Applications will be judged by a panel of five, including Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon, with the winners receiving laptops and smartphones as prizes. Applications will [...]
Single year .UK registrations became available in May, the latest numbers are in…
Monday, June 4th, 2012One of the biggest complaints registrants of the .UK ccTLD voiced out often was the requirement of 2 year initial registrations and/or renewals of .UK domain names. It was impossible to simply register a domain name for 1 year, just like with any other gTLD (com, net or org) or most other ccTLD’s in the [...]
Memo leaks on ‘Community’ showrunner shuffle?
Friday, May 25th, 2012The plot surrounding “Community” creator Dan Harmon’s replacement has thickened. The Hollywood Reporter says it has obtained “a talking-points memo” sent from the studio behind the critically acclaimed NBC show to the cast and reps over the weekend. The intention? To minimize any media fireworks over the beloved but outspoken showrunner’s dismissal. The purported memo [...]
Starting Dot Announces Application for .ski Top Level Domain
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012Global community of ski sports participants, companies and brands to get a dedicated domain name extension to help grow the sport through related domain names. PARIS, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — STARTING DOT today announced its application to become the official registry of .ski (Dot Ski) as part of the New gTLD program initiated by [...]
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