Law enforcement push for stricter domain name rules
Law enforcement officials in the U.K. and U.S. are pushing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to put in place measures that would help reduce abuse of the domain name system.
View ArticleCritics stage last-ditch effort to derail domain name expansion plan
Debate around a controversial plan to add hundreds of new domain name extensions to the Internet infrastructure has reached a fever pitch in the nation's capital, as critics engage in a last-ditch...
View Article.Melbourne scores higher ranking than .Sydney in ICANN top-level domain lottery
The state of Victoria, iSelect, Open Universities Australia and Commonwealth Bank drew high slots in a lottery at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to determine the order in which...
View ArticleMelbourne IT expects boom in defensive registrations when top-level domains...
Melbourne IT said it expects a boost to business from defensive domain registering and other activity associated with new global top-level domains expected to go live later this year.
View ArticleICANN approves non-Latin 'dot word' domains
ICANN published evaluation results of the first 27 new global top-level domains.
View ArticleFirst top-level domain contract signed for Arabic .web
The client of a Melbourne registrar has signed the first global top-level domain (gTLD) contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
View ArticleRich-Phillips: auDA oversight for .melbourne domain space
Victoria’s Minister for Technology, Gordon Rich-Phillips, has told an Australian Internet policy conference that he believes auDA – .au Domain Administration Ltd., the organisation that currently...
View ArticleFirst new gTLDs added to the root
The Internet – or at least its namespace – just got bigger. Early this morning, while most of Australia was eating breakfast or getting ready for work, four new top-level domains were added to the...
View ArticleUpdated: Monash gets first branded top-level domain
Monash University has received the .monash top-level domain name, becoming the first global organisation to be delegated a brand-name TLD by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
View ArticleMore than 100 gTLDs added to the root so far
The Internet's name space continues to expand, with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — ICANN, the organisation that manages the Domain Name System which is ultimately responsible...
View ArticleICANN seeks to tackle DNS namespace collision risks
As the number of top-level domains undergoes explosive growth, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying ways to reduce the risk of traffic intended for internal...
View Article.melbourne top-level domain moves closer to Web
The Victorian government has signed a registry agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), moving the .melbourne domain one step closer to the Web. The first...
View ArticleFirst wave of .melbourne domain names go live tomorrow
The first collection of second-level domains using the new .melboune top-level domain will be live on the Internet from tomorrow.
View ArticleTourism to help drive .sydney take-up, says ARI boss
Sydney’s tourism industry should help drive interest in the city’s new top-level domain when it launches later this month according to the chief executive of ARI Registry Services, the company that...
View ArticleNew .sydney domain open for registrations tomorrow
From 11am on 17 February, the new .sydney top-level domain will hit general availability.
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