You may recall that earlier this year the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) began a historic expansion of the internet domain name system by accepting applications for new generic top level domain names (“gTLD’s”) (i.e. the string of letters to the right of the dot in a domain name). (See Changes in [...]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2012DTP® To Offer Revolutionary Speech Recognition Solution with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012Newest version of innovative software is the fastest Dragon yet for busy professionals Greenville, SC (PRWEB) July 30, 2012 DTP® has announced that it will offer Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, the newest and fastest version of Dragon speech recognition software just introduced from Nuance. With over 100 new features and enhancements, and significantly improved speed and [...]
DTP® To Offer Revolutionary Speech Recognition Solution with Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12
Monday, July 30th, 2012Newest version of innovative software is the fastest Dragon yet for busy professionals Greenville, SC (PRWEB) July 30, 2012 DTP® has announced that it will offer Dragon NaturallySpeaking 12, the newest and fastest version of Dragon speech recognition software just introduced from Nuance. With over 100 new features and enhancements, and significantly improved speed and [...]
ICANN Seeks Input on gTLD Batching – ag-IP
Monday, July 30th, 2012MARINA 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 [...]
ICANN Orders Bulk Transfer of Domains From Two De-accreditated Registrars …
Friday, July 27th, 2012“ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of Planet Online Corp’s gTLD domain names to NamesBeyond.com (“NamesBeyond”) due to a compliance action taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of registrar Planet Online Corp. “ICANN has also authorized the bulk transfer of Name For Name, Inc.’s .com and .net names (which represent all gTLDs currently sponsored [...]
Windward Presents Free Webinar: Surefire DNS Failover on a Budget
Thursday, July 26th, 2012Pay It Forward Series Debut Shows How To Keep a Business Website Up and Running, Around the Globe, for Less Than $7000 Per Year. Webinar Details Three Components for a Cloud Solution that Does not Fail. Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) July 26, 2012 Windward, the reporting, document generation and business intelligence software giant, today announced the [...]
‘Registration Blocks’ Provide Protection
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012When the ICM Registry initially launched .XXX last year, the notion of a ‘registration block’ was a fairly novel idea. Essentially, the ICM Registry allowed companies who were not part of the “global adult entertainment industry”, to seek permanent removal of names matching their trademarks from the general pool of names available for registration for [...]
Religious Leaders Pledge Support in Fight Against Domestic Violence
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012Photo: Kate Holt/Irin A new multi-faith initiative, Ubuntu in the Home, aims to harness the power and influence of South African religious leaders to tackle the problem of gender-based violence in the country. At the programme’s launch on Tuesday, members of different faith communities lamented the silence that has previously prevailed among them on this [...]
Religious leaders pledge support in fight against domestic violence
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012Bigwigs from Cape Town’s religious community gathered in the Banqueting Hall of the Civic Centre on Tuesday morning. They were there partly to mark the launch of the Ubuntu in the Home project, but a theme running alongside that was the commemoration of the 57th wedding anniversary of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife, Leah. [...]
Dubai: Domain name
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012The California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has published the long-awaited list of organisations seeking to obtain new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), commonly recognised as internet address endings or suffixes. Dubai eGovernment (DeG) is one of the more than 1900 applicants for gTLDs and is hoping to secure the recently dubbed dotDubai [...]
Toronto Newspaper Questions Whether Canada’s .CA ccTLD Can Survive New …
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012While no one knows exactly how the hundreds of new gTLDs that are expected to start arriving in the next year or two will impact the various segments of the market, there is one thing we do know. That is that top ccTLDs dramatically outperform non .com gTLDS (which is what the new extensions will [...]
Why Does the Net Still Work on Christmas? Paul Mockapetris
Monday, July 23rd, 2012Paul Mockapetris, the father of the internet’s Domain Naming System. Image: Paul Mockapetris In 1983, you could ask for your own internet address. But not after 6 p.m. California time. Or over the Christmas holiday. When the internet was still the ARPAnet — the government-funded network that connected various research outfits across the country — [...]
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Weighing in on Batching
Thursday, August 23rd, 2012At the end of July, ICANN opened a public comment period to gather input from the community about how it should handle the issue of batching new gTLD applications. gTLD Strategy readers will remember that once Digital Archery met its bitter end during the last ICANN Public Meeting in Prague, the ICANN Board had not [...]