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The controversy over the .ss top-level domain

Written by Theo Docherty on 16.03.2012

When South Sudan became the world’s newest country last July, it set about nation building. This included establishing a country-code top level domain (ccTLD), for which the nation wanted .ss. Although the SS string appeared on the International Standards Organisation’s ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code list in August, the forerunner to ICANN approval for a ccTLD, .ss is still not plugged into the internet. Read more ›

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How do you protect registrants from the failure of a new gTLD registry?

Written by Nick Wood on 28.10.2011

Here in Dakar, delegates at ICANN 42 have been wrestling with this question. But, over four years and six editions of the Applicant Guidebook, ICANN has already developed an answer. The idea is for every new registry applicant to estimate the costs of “critical registry functions”, defined as: the maintenance of DNS resolution, a shared registry system, Whois, data escrow and maintaining a DNSSEC signed zone. Read more ›

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ICANN Publishes New Applicant Guidebook

Written by Ashley Roberts on 20.09.2011

ICANN have published an updated version of the Applicant Guidebook and unveiled a new micro-site dedicated to the new gTLD programme. The micro-site contains all of ICANN’s resources on new gTLDs and will function as the forum to submit comments … Read more ›

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Sex sells. Even in the domain name world?

Written by Theo Docherty on 05.09.2011

SEX! Now that I have your attention, I want to talk about the new TLD for the adult entertainment industry, .xxx. This TLD was first proposed in 2000 and was met with fierce opposition from religious and conservative groups on … Read more ›

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