Tagged: ICANN
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Generic top-level domains will divide the internet, warns IIA CEO News
07.03.2013 The advent of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) like .blog or .hair will only facilitate the division of the internet into territories, the Irish Internet Association has warned... -
Blacknight’s Michele Neylon elected secretary of ICANN Registrar Group News
24.10.2012 Blacknight’s founding director has been elected to the position of secretary of the Registrar Stakeholder Group of the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers... -
Saudi Arabia objects to .gay internet address News
15.08.2012 Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission has filed an official objection with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the... -
From .LOVE to .SEX – ICANN publishes list of new gTLD applications News
13.06.2012 In what has been termed in some quarters as the biggest land grab in internet history, ICANN has published the list of the various entities that have applied for generic... -
Today is IPv6 day, so what’s going to change? (infographic) News
06.06.2012 The chances are no one will notice anything different about the internet today, but behind the scenes boffins will be rolling out a new standard for the web that makes it...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Communications -
Google plans to bring out new internet domains, including .lol News
01.06.2012 Vint Cerf, one of the internet’s founding fathers, has revealed that Google is planning to bring out new top-level domains (TLDs), including .google, .docs, .youtube and,...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Search Engines, Search, Internet, Intellectual Property, Consumer Tech -
ICANN to accept new top-level domains applications from today News
12.01.2012 ICANN has begun accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which could see websites end in such domain name extensions as .shop, .nyc, .irish and .music -
Visionary tech investor has her eye on online health News
13.12.2011 Esther Dyson is like the ‘A’ list of angel investors in the IT space. Tomorrow evening, she’ll be speaking at Science Gallery Dublin about her latest investing focal point:...Categories: Web 2.0, Science, R&D, IT Organisation, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business, Deals Done -
Porn publishers sue ICANN over .XXX domains News
18.11.2011 Two major online porn publishers have filed a lawsuit against ICANN over the .XXX domain name that ICANN approved this year. The publishers accuse ICANN of behaving in a... -
Scots and Welsh want their own top-level domains News
26.09.2011 Is the Union breaking up? No, not really, it just seems that the Scots, the Welsh and may be even the Londoners want to have their own regional suffixes instead of the catch-all... -
.XXX domain registration begins today News
07.09.2011 Described by some as the ‘internet’s red light district’, it will be interesting to see if the launch of registrations for the .XXX domain today will indeed help to separate the... -
Mass expansion of TLDs not a threat to national domains – IEDR News
14.07.2011 Trademark owners rather than national top level domains are the ones who will be most challenged by the impending expansion of generic top level domains (gTLDs), the CEO of the... -
Consortium buys GoDaddy.com for US$2.2bn News
04.07.2011 Web hosting and domain name registrar GoDaddy.com has been bought by a consortium of private equity firms – including KKR, SilverLake Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services, Funding, Deals Done -
Weekend news roundup News
04.07.2011 Since Zynga announced plans to go public, the web has been afire with news and analysis about the social games company’s prospects and, in particular, its CEO Mark Pincus.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Financial -
ICANN approves massive expansion of domain names News
20.06.2011 The board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes to the internet’s domain name... -
ICANN approves .XXX adult domain News
19.03.2011 Internet domain regulator ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the .XXX top-level domain for adult entertainment sites. It is likely major... -
Irish hosting player gears up to sell .xxx domains News
18.02.2011 A major domain name reseller based in Carlow, Blacknight, is accepting expressions of interest from the adult entertainment industry for registering .xxx domains in anticipation...Categories: Software & Web Development, Multimedia, Internet, Hosting Services, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce -
Adoption of IPv6 is now of paramount importance News
04.02.2011 It’s goodbye to the web as we knew it and hello to a web with a bit more room. Last night the final batches of IPv4 web addresses were issued to regional bodies. The future now... -
ICANN on verge of approving .XXX domain News
25.06.2010 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbering is planning to approve the .xxx top level domain for adult websites – a decade after it was first proposed. -
LinkedIn locates global finance base in Dublin News
24.06.2010 Three months since professional networking website LinkedIn revealed it was planning to locate its European HQ in Dublin – joining other web giants Facebook, Google, Amazon and...Categories: Social Media, Internet, Financial, Digital Business, Web Development, Online Business, Administration