Le décret Trump peut-il empêcher l’Internet d’être gouverné ?
Le 31 janvier 2017, sur son blog, l’organisme en charge de la gouvernance technique de l’Internet prend la parole. L’ICANN ne dénonce pas directement le décret signé par Donald Trump interdisant...
View ArticleL’Afrique a enfin son extension Internet !
Ils étaient deux à se revendiquer du .Africa. D’un côté l’opérateur de l’extension nationale sud-africaine, le .ZA. De l’autre une business woman africaine/américaine. ZA Central Registry (ZACR) et...
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Geos and brands only for a 2019 second round of new gTLDs?
Let’s be clear: right now, any statements on when (or even if) a follow-up round of new gTLD applications might happen are pure conjecture. The first round closed on April 12, 2012. Since then, the...
View ArticleEn .COM, Donald Trump fait mieux que le cannabis
D’après la société en charge de la gestion du .COM, Donald Trump y a fait un vrai tabac sur le dernier trimestre de 2016. Les statistiques d’enregistrement des noms de domaine portant sur le dernier...
View ArticleSelling domains through fear marketing… does that really still work?
So DotAfrica is finally about to launch. Years of being embroiled in legal disputes would make anyone impatient to start earning revenue. But sending out marketing emails based on the argument that...
View ArticleOver 350 registered attendees for Madrid domain industry summit
ICANN’s Global Domains Division (GDD) has started organising summits to enable domain industry members who have contracts with ICANN (registries and registrars) to discuss business issues away from the...
View ArticleMathieu Weill quitte l’Afnic
Il occupe le poste de directeur général de l’Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération depuis 2005. Mieux connue sous l’acronyme Afnic, cette association gère le .FR, l’extension...
View ArticleFormer ICANN Board member to lead .AU registry project
auDA, the Australian regulator of the country’s Internet suffix .AU, has appointed Bruce Tonkin to lead its “registry transformation” project. Tonkin has just ended a 9-year stint on the ICANN Board....
View ArticleFrance’s leading ecommerce website to switch to new gTLD web address
In what can only be seen as a major coup for new gTLDs, the French national railway’s ecommerce website is set to ditch the .COM web address it’s used for the last 17 years in favour of its own Dot...
View ArticleChina tightens foreign domain regulations
Registries wanting to sell their wares to Chinese registrants are once again facing a tightening of the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)’s regulations. A few days ago,...
View ArticleICANN claims new gTLD program has cost $214 million so far
ICANN Global Domains Division President Akram Attalah made the claim, citing his organisation’s FY18 budget, in a August 29, 2017 letter drafted in response to a proposal made by registries to...
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Descente de police sur l’extension Internet catalane, le directeur technique...
Se faire arrêter et emprisonné pour sédition, de nos jours, ce n’est pas banal ! Ni courant. Le mot même paraît suranné. Le Larousse donne d’ailleurs deux définitions, une pour “autrefois”, l’autre...
View ArticleFin de la détention du directeur technique du .CAT
Le 22 septembre, Fundacio PuntCAT a confirmé par communiqué la libération de Pep Masoliver. Le directeur technique du gestionnaire de l’extension .CAT a été détenu pendant plus de 60 heures et doit...
View ArticleCherine Chalaby to replace Steve Crocker as ICANN Chair
The ICANN Board has a crucial decision to make this year : finding a suitable replacement for Steve Crocker. One of the “fathers of the Internet”, Crocker has chaired the ICANN Board for the last 6...
View ArticleBuilding an even better European Internet domain
A relentless drive to find new ways to improve is one of the core character traits of the team behind EURid, the manager (registry) of Europe’s Top Level Domain DotEU. One way EURid strives to achieve...
View ArticleGDPR: European registries plan contract changes and WHOIS limitations
National country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) registries in Europe plan to either limit access to their WHOIS database or revise the terms of the contracts with their registrars and others to ensure...
View ArticleICANN unplugs operator for new gTLD .WED
For the first time since the new gTLD program was launched and ICANN started adding new suffixes like .XYZ or .LONDON to the Internet root, one of companies it had granted the right to operate these...
View ArticleICANN Board says no to .CORP, .HOME and .MAIL
The ongoing saga of the applications for the new gTLDs .CORP, .HOME and .MAIL has been resolved. During its February 4, 2018 meeting, the ICANN Board directed the organisation’s CEO to prevent these...
View ArticlePorsche looks at blockchain applications for cars
Premium automaker Porsche claims to be the first to successfully test car-based blockchain applications. Says Porsche’s Oliver Döring, financial strategist: “We can use blockchain to transfer data more...
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