Archive for the ‘CCTLD’s’ Category
Posted January 18th, 2012
From domainnews
There are now more than 900,000 active .РФ domain names,according to statistics on the Coordination Center for TLD RU,the .RU registry website . As of today there are 902,531 .РФ domain names registered and the number is increasingly rapidly .
A year and a half ago,on May 12,2010,the Coordination Center for TLD .RU became the administrator of the new cyrilic domain name .РФ . On November 11,2010 domain names registration in domain .РФ became accessible for all comers.
For the full story go HERE.
Posted in CCTLD's, Domain Names, IDNs by Ken Taylor
Posted October 20th, 2011
As posted to ICANN.org: “ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Malaysia.
Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-m-en.htm#my.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: ICANN, Malaysia
Posted in CCTLD's, IDNs by Kelly Hardy
Posted September 8th, 2011
According to ICANN.org: “ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Kazakhstan.
Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-k-en.htm#kz.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: ccTLD, IDN, kazakhstan
Posted in CCTLD's, ICANN, IDNs by Kelly Hardy
Posted August 22nd, 2011
As reported by Mashable.com: “Nic.ly, the site of Libya’s top level domain (TLD) name registry, has been defaced by hackers, with the content of the site replaced with an anti-Muammar al-Gaddafi message.
The front page of Nic.ly currently sports these messages: “HACKED By Electr0n” and “bye bye Qadaffi.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: .ly
Posted in CCTLD's, cybercrime by Kelly Hardy
Posted August 12th, 2011
As reported by DomainIncite.com: “The new African nation of South Sudan has officially been given the two-letter country code SS, meaning it is likely just months away from getting the top-level domain .ss.
The SS string appeared on the International Standards Organization’s ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code list this week, following a request by the government of the country.”
Click HERE to read the full article.
Tags: .SS, South Sudan
Posted in CCTLD's by Kelly Hardy
Posted July 18th, 2011
As reported by DomainIncite.com: “The University of Puerto Rico has accused the manager of the .pr top-level domain of hoodwinking ICANN in order to “illegally” take over the registry.
It recently filed a lawsuit seeking to regain control of .pr, saying that the current registry operator has made an estimated $2 million from domain registrations since it somehow took over the ccTLD.”
Click HERE to read the full article.
Tags: .pr, The University of Puerto Rico
Posted in CCTLD's by Kelly Hardy
Posted May 19th, 2011
As reported by PCWorld.com: “Control of North Korea’s top-level Internet domain has been formally assigned to a government-backed venture after the previous operator, a German company, let the national domain disappear from the Internet for several months.
The dot-kp domain was officially transferred at the beginning of May to Star Joint Venture, a North Korean-Thai company that has been chartered with providing “modern Internet services” to the insular country. Star JV has been in de-facto control of the domain name since December last year.”
Click HERE to read the full article.
Tags: dot-kp
Posted in CCTLD's by Kelly Hardy
Posted April 26th, 2011
Centr have released their findings on the impact of New gTLDs on ccTLDs.
Click HERE to read the Paper.
Tags: CCTLD's, Centr, new gTLDs
Posted in CCTLD's, gTLDS by Kelly Hardy
Posted March 17th, 2011
“ICANN has announced today that it has signed an Accountability Framework with the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) manager for .MS (Montserrat), MNI Networks Limited (MNI), on 17 March 2011.
The Accountability Framework program provides two mechanisms by which ccTLD managers can formalise their relationship with ICANN. The first is an Accountability Framework document that sets out the obligations of a ccTLD manager and ICANN. It also covers dispute resolution and termination and is designed for ccTLD managers requiring a formal document with ICANN.”
For more information, click HERE.
Tags: .MS, ICANN, MNI Networks Limited, Montserrat
Posted in CCTLD's by Kelly Hardy
Posted March 10th, 2011
“ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Bangladesh.
Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-b-en.htm#bd.”
Click HERE to read more.
Tags: Bangladesh, ccTLD, ICANN
Posted in CCTLD's by Kelly Hardy
