Dr. Bernd Pfaffenbach, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology of Germany, met Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO in Berlin, 9 December 2009. More info: www.bmwi.de
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Small businesses complain that they’re starved for capital these days. And there’s a debate raging about a possible solution under consideration by Congress: equity-based crowd funding. Supporters of the idea say the Securities and Exchange Commission should lift the current limits on private-equity investments and let companies sell stakes to crowds of investors online. Millions more people would be able to buy stakes in companies, proponents say, opening up a potentially huge source of financing. The investors would also have a powerful incentive to become customers of the companies they’ve backed. ALSO…Small businesses are facing a big choice when it comes to their Web presence. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is accepting applications for the chance to create and manage new top-level domains—the part of the Web address to the right of the dot, like “com” and “org.” People who manage websites will have the chance to acquire addresses at those new top-level domains, also known as TLDs.
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ICANN Registrar Secura is acception free pre-registration of asia-domains with Chinese, Japanes and Korean characters. Sunrise and Landrush ist based on a model where all applications received within their respective periods will be considered to be received at the same time, with auctions being held for domains receiving more than one successfully verified application. Domains with only one successful application will be allocated to the applicant, and no auction will be necessary. IDN Sunrise and Landrush Submissions: .Asia IDN launch Timeline: Sunrise Application Period (70 days) – OPEN: 2011.May.11 (Wed, 12:00UTC) – CLOSE:2011.Jul.20 (Wed, 24:00UTC) – Although the May Sunrise start date is coming up soon, registrars will have till Jul 20th, the last day of the Sunrise application period, to market and inform your customers of the IDN.Asia Sunrise. NOTE that all applications received within the period will be treated as received at the same time in the process, therefore applications submitted later in the period will not disadvantage the applicant. Landrush Application Period (70 days) – OPEN: 2011.Aug.02 (Tue, 12:00UTC) – CLOSE: 2011.Oct.11 (Tue, 24:00UTC) IDN Languages to be launched: – Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) [ZH] – Japanese [JA] – Korean [KO] Hans-Peter Oswald www.domainregistry.de
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Highlights and a description of the June 16, 2010 Key Signing Ceremony.
In March, 2011, the Non-Commercial Users Constituency met in San Francisco in conjunction with ICANN (Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers). There has been an initiative to start another constituency especially for consumers. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center addresses this issue.
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Visite guidée des locaux de l’ICANN par Tina Dam pour Domaine.info, réalisée en Anglais. Notre Equipe de Reporter a profité de sa présence à Los Angeles lors du Meeting ICANN pour percer le mythe des locaux du Régulateur de l’Internet. Par projet, en “open space” ou individuel, nous vous proposons de découvrir comment sont organisés les bureaux de l’ICANN et rencontrer certains de ses membres.
www.nma.tv Go Daddy, the largest domain registrar company in the world, raised the ire of the internet by supporting the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short. The users of Reddit, in particular, spearheaded a boycott of Go Daddy. Since then, thousands of users have moved their domain elsewhere. Go Daddy has since reversed their stance on SOPA. But it’s too little too late. The redditors are going ahead with “Leave Go Daddy Day” on the 29th of December. Competitors such as Hostgator and Namecheap has offered special deals with coupon codes such as NODADDY or SOPASucks. This is not the first time Go Daddy has attracted controversy. Founder Bob Parsons is fond of shooting elephants, and the company has been accused of snapping up the domain names of customers who let their accounts lapse. But their support for SOPA could prove the costliest PR disaster of all.
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The panel of experts was chaired by Ludwig Siegele, head of New Technologies at The Economist, and included: – Nigel Hickson, (British sherpa to the G8 on international ICT policy); – Jean-Michel Hubert, (French sherpa to the G8 on international ICT policy); – Richard Allan, (director of policy at Facebook); – Bertrand de la Chapelle, (ICANN Board Member); – Ian Brown, (Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute); and – Gilles Lordet, (Reporter Sans Frontières). Topics included, privacy, intellectual property rights, cybersecurity, integrated governance, enforcement, taxation, etc. The conference was hosted at the French Institute in the UK, London.
Katim Serenge Touray, development consultant in Gambia and leader with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), responds to the question “In 2015 will most people generally go DIRECTLY to the World Wide Web to do their work, shopping, socializing and other online activities – as they have the past 20 years – OR will most people generally be using apps or social networks as their gateways for doing everything? Which will dominate most people’s lives online – the open Web or apps and social networks?” Recorded by a documentary team from the Imagining the Internet Center at Elon University as part of a video survey of nearly 80 of the more than 1000 participants in the 2011 Global Internet Governance Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Segunda parte de la charla que reseñando.com sostuvo con Pablo Hinojosa, representante para Amércia Latina de ICANN, quien habla sobre lo que viene en cuanto a nombres, caracteres e idiomas diferentes en dominios de Internet; de cuales son las políticas al respecto de ICANN y sobre lo que se esta haciendo respecto a las direcciones IP.
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