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New Version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook
A fourth draft of the Applicant Guidebook that describes the process of applying for new generic top-level domains was released by ICANN on May 31, 2010 along with explanatory memoranda and detailed analysis of comments received.
The new version has important new content... » Read more
June 4, 2010 | BrandShelter News
IDN country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) delegations for Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and UAE approved
Last week, the ICANN Board (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved the first IDN ccTLD delegation requests for the countries Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Russian registry is already accepting pre-registrationos... » Read more
April 30, 2010 | BrandShelter News
Survey Reveals Business with Typosquatting
Averaged 280 typo domains are allocated to each of the 3,264 most popular .COM web sites ranked by Alexa.com. This is the conclusion of the study “Measuring the Perpetrators and Funders of Typosquatting"carried out by the two Harvard scientists Tyler Moore (Harvard School... » Read more
March 4, 2010 | BrandShelter News
Launch of .LU IDNs
The registry of .LU has announced the launch of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) as of February 1, 2010.
There will be a Sunrise period between February 1, 2010 and March 31, 2010. During this period only owners of already registered ASCII .LU names will be able... » Read more
January 7, 2010 | BrandShelter News
Introduction of .ORG Chinese IDNs on January 23, 2010
The .ORG registry has announced the introduction of .ORG Chinese IDNs on January 23, 2010. The principle first-come, first-served applies.
.ORG Chinese IDNs registered between January 23, 2010 and February 22, 2010 will be placed on Server Hold, Server Update Prohibited... » Read more
December 15, 2009 | BrandShelter News