As part of ICANN’s global efforts to raise awareness of, and interest in new gTLDs, all registries are invited to partner with us to develop case studies. These case studies tell the story of a TLD, including its background and business objectives. They are intended for use as educational resources. We will [...] Continue reading →

On Thursday, Oct 1, 2015, from 9:30am-4:30pm US EDT (UTC-4), Dyn will be holding their "TechToberFest” event in Manchester, NH, and also streaming the video live for anyone interested. There are a great set of speakers and a solid agenda. As I wrote on the Internet Society blog ("Bandwidth, Beer and Bratwurst — Speaking [...] Continue reading →

Earlier this year, I wrote about a recent enhancement to privacy in the Domain Name System (DNS) called qname-minimization. Following the principle of minimum disclosure, this enhancement reduces the information content of a DNS query to the minimum necessary to get either an authoritative response from a name server, or a referral to another name [...] Continue reading →

IBUY Stores, Inc. of New York, just lost its bid to grab the domain name ibuy.com in a UDRP IBuy Stores owns the domain name ibuystores.com This case really should have gotten a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ruling. The domain holder applied for a trademark in 2008, they bought the domain name in 2007 and [...] Continue reading →

Just days after China and the United States hailed a high-level agreement limiting cyberattacks, a former commander of one of the Chinese military's top hacking units lashed out at American Internet policy, in a sign of how far apart Beijing and Washington remain on technology issues… the United States had double standards with online surveillance [...] Continue reading →

Over the next few months, major discussions at the United Nations will shape the future of Internet governance. In order to prepare with our community for the ten-year Review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10), in New York, USA, on 15 to 16 December 2015, we are publishing today a matrix of [...] Continue reading →

Verisign has launched a free recursive DNS service aimed at the consumer market. Public DNS, as the service is called, is being positioned as a way to avoid having your browsing history collated and sold for marketing purposes by your ISP. There’s no charge, and the company is promising not to sell your data. It [...] Continue reading →