ICANN proposes .INTERNAL, a new TLD available for internal use but never plumbed into the global DNS, taking on the same role as 192.168.x.x IPv4 bloc
The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root - like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet
Sources: ICANN delays review period for selling .org registry to Ethos Capital until May 4, after California's AG raised concerns it would hurt non-profits
Kieren McCarthy / The Register :
Sources: ICANN delays review period for selling .org registry to Ethos Capital until May 4, after California's AG raised concerns it would hurt non-profits
Kieren McCarthy / The Register : Tweets: @anarchistdalek Tweets: @anarchistdalek : https://www.theregister.co.uk/ ... So the sale of the .org TLD was put on hold due to the fact that a massive shady ...
Registrars raise alarm over ICANN's plan to allow Verisign to raise .com TLD prices by 70% over the next decade, much higher than forecasted inflation in the US
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
ICANN says it will review PIR's sale of .org to Ethos Capital to decide if it should be allowed; notes it has 30 days to provide or withhold its consent
The proposed acquisition of Public Interest Registry … Marietje Schaake / Financial Times : Selling off online domain names threatens internet governance Anthony Spadafora / TechRadar.com : ICANN paus...
ICANN ignores community input and agrees to lift price caps on .org domain names, letting the Public Interest Registry charge as much as it wants for them
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire :
ICANN's proposal to comply with EU's GDPR by restricting access to Whois information via an accreditation program faces criticism from privacy advocates, EFF
IF YOU HEAD over to a Whois service and search for wired.com, you'll see that this site is registered to our publisher Conde Nast at One World Trade Center in New York City. Tweets: @eff Tweets: @eff ...
US to hand over control of the Domain Naming System to the nonprofit organization ICANN on October 1
The US has confirmed it is finally ready to cede power of the internet's naming system, ending the almost 20-year process to hand over a crucial part of the internet's governance.
ICANN says it spent $2.5M in US lobbying this year, five times more than it has previously admitted to
Kieren McCarthy / The Register :