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The Internet Needs a Plan B

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LONG BEACH, California — Danny Hillis is one of the earliest internet users. He registered the third domain name ever, Think.com (“I thought, so many interesting names, maybe I should register a few other names? Nahh that wouldn’t be very nice.”) Clutching a gray book about an inch thick on stage, Hillis described those early days. “This is everyone who had an internet address in 1982,” Hillis told the crowd at TED 2013 on Wednesday. “It had your name, address and phone number. You were actually listed twice, because it…

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The Generic Domain Name Opulence.com Hit With UDRP

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The domain name Opulence.com has been hit with a UDRP. With almost 8,000,000 references in Google opulence is a dictionary word that has been registered since at least 2000 according to Domaintools.com The domain name was owned until recently by  Opulence Communications Ltd of the UK with an expiration date of 2018. Suddenly in early 2013 the domain name whois information was gone and the domain name no longer resolves. There are 8  trademarks for the term Opulence filed with the USPTO. Neither the complainant nor the domain holder is…

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ICANN publishes domain name disputes list

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ICANN has published a list of domain names that their owners, or applicants to new domain names, are disputing with others because of potential confusion among web users on grounds of similarity. ICANN has published a list of domain names that their owners, or applicants to new domain names, are disputing with others because of potential confusion among web users on grounds of similarity. The list, containing hundreds of domain name sets, has been put together by ICANN’s “string similarity review” for applications submitted as part of the “New gTLD…

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Amazon pushes for cloud dominance; will ICANN give in?

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Amazon is on a land grab mission. Is the industry going to sit back and let it call the shots over the .cloud domain? The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has many roles; coordination of Internet Protocol address space and the management of the Top-Level Domain (TLD) name space amongst them. If one application that falls within the latter remit gets the go ahead, ICANN might yet end up being best known as the organisation that sold the cloud to Amazon. source

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China’s next-generation internet is a world-beater

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The net’s new tiger, China, is creating a faster, more secure system that is way ahead of the West THE net is getting creaky and old: it is rapidly running out of space and remains fundamentally insecure. And it turns out China is streets ahead of the West in doing anything about it. A report published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society last week details China’s advances in creating a next-generation internet that is on a national level and on a larger scale than anything in the West.…

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Brand gTLD Strategies: Evolution of TV and Internet Content Distribution

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Most people access the majority of their television content from a cable box or satellite provider hooked up to their flat screens, but those days are likely numbered. With many savvy media, sports, and entertainment companies preparing for the upcoming expansion of the Internet and thousands of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) rolling out, there is a lucrative opportunity for gTLDs to become channels of distribution within the next few years. Comcast and Dish Network clearly see the proverbial writing on technology wall, with both making bold gTLD plays and…

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DCA Registry Services makes its voice heard at the ICANN Africa Strategy Addis Ababa

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PRLog (Press Release) – Mar. 10, 2013 – DCA Registry Services and its UK Technical Partner CentralNic participated in the just ended African Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance (http://www.africanncommunity.org/ index.php/component/rseventspro/event/1) meeting held at the UNECA Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 6-8 March 2013, where it played a part among other African organizations like African IGF, AfriNIC, AFTLD, ISOC Africa, and the ATU and ITU. source

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Is .com the 212 area code of domains? Experts say alternative suffixes are for cyber-squatters

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The World Wide Web is getting wider with the addition of new top-level domains this year, but experts say businesses and marketers may find that grabbing new options won’t do much good. The .com ending for Internet addresses still rules. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as Icann, the nonprofit that oversees domain-name systems, plans to introduce more extensions in mid-2013. source

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A New Track with New G’s

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by Brad White ICANN, on March 13, 2013 I am writing these words on a train en route back home to Washington from New York City and I’m happy to report that the train is moving just a tad faster than development of the new gTLD program. Based on my calculations, it will take considerably less than seven years for me to arrive at DC’s Union Station. The great thing about a train trip is not speed, but the fact that it facilitates reflection. This one allowed me to contemplate…

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