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The proposal that had been gaining momentum has come to an abrupt halt as the Internet Society plans for alternatives to the two features that the White House had criticized last week. Namely, the restriction to the number of registrars and the ‘lottery’ idea for domain names with more than one buyer. [...] Continue reading
PSINet, one of the proposal providers for the plans to expand the domain name registry industry, says that IAHC’s proposal is gaining too much momentum too fast. William Schrader claims that “they seem to be in a rush to get their proposal approved by a random number of people, and then put it into [...] Continue reading
The US Government has rejected a plan to expand and privatize the domain name industry put together by the appointed International Ad Hoc Committee. The group aims to create more competition in the industry, which is currently controlled by a Network Solutions monopoly, assisted by the US government. It is reported that the US [...] Continue reading
The International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) today signed an International Memorandum of Understanding, ending their meeting in Geneva. The new memorandum discusses the committee’s plans to expand the domain industry with seven new top-level domain names (TLDs). Both the US Government and the European Union came out against the memorandum. [...] Continue reading
By Edwin Hayward Reciprocal links form a vital part of any website promotion effort. You have created great content, or offer a superb product or service -- and now, you want people to know about it. The Web is only as useful as the sum of its links, as without links it is just [...] Continue reading