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The controversy over the .ss top-level domain
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 ›
Moving the goalposts: government involvement in domain name policy
As the face of the domain name industry continues to change, governments are getting more involved with domain name policy – and often moving the goalposts before registrants’ eyes. The examples I am going to discuss are .cn (China), .kz … Read more ›
What’s in a domain name extension?
So the long wait is over. The recent ICANN decision to expand the number of top-level domains (TLDs) beyond current country-code and generic extensions will have a major impact on the way people use domain names in future. There will no doubt be endless blogs written about this in the coming months, but today I want to consider a few TLDs which might give an indication of the way things will develop. Read more ›