The .nxt conference on new generic top-level domains, planned for London next month, has been postponed until later this year, the organizers have announced. .nxt CEO Kieren McCarthy blamed the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the new gTLD program timetable following ICANN’s six-week TLD Application System outage. McCarthy wrote on the .nxt web site: Our main goal [...] Συνέχεια ανάγνωση →

At least one new generic top-level domain applicant has requested a full $185,000 refund of its application fee, according to ICANN. This exchange is from last night’s Twitter chat with ICANN executives: @icann Has anyone asked for a refund yet? #icannchat — Kevin Murphy (@DomainIncite) Μπορεί να 22, 2012 It’s interesting that the answer was [...] Συνέχεια ανάγνωση →

Customers of major UK domain registrar 123-reg suffered a couple of hours of downtime this afternoon due to an apparently “massive” denial of service attack. The attack targeted its DNS servers and originated in China, according to a report in The Register. Users reported sites offline or with spotty availability, but the company managed to [...] Συνέχεια ανάγνωση →

Adrenaline TLD has confirmed that it no longer plans to apply to ICANN for the sport-themed top-level domains .surf, .skate, .bike and .board. The news was implicit in the announcement from Starting Dot that it has partnered with Adrenaline for .ski earlier this week, but the company today confirmed as much. In a statement this [...] Συνέχεια ανάγνωση →

ICANN held a Twitter session tonight during which executives answered questions about the new gTLD program in that notoriously restrictive 140-character format. Unsurprisingly, in light of the frustration borne out of ongoing delays, most of the questions were about timing. New gTLD applicants wanted to know when ICANN plans to host its Big Reveal event, [...] Συνέχεια ανάγνωση →

Neustar has recruited one of the ICANN community’s best-known lawyers as its new chief privacy officer. Becky Burr is set to join the company June 1, reporting to general counsel Scott Blake Harris, according to a Neustar press release. Burr is well-known in the domain name industry. While at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration [...] Συνέχεια ανάγνωση →

Employ Media’s fight to avoid losing its contract to run .jobs won’t be resolved this year, according to the latest batch of arbitration documents published by ICANN. Φεβρουαρίου 2013, two years after the the battle was joined, is now the absolute earliest the company could find out whether ICANN has the right to shut down [...] Συνέχεια ανάγνωση →