Posts Tagged ‘ICANN

In the upcoming months, you’re going to start seeing a much greater variety of domains names appear on your url bar. This year, Internet domain name overlords ICANN have made two important votes – first, they decided to lift almost … Go to Source

By John Yunker On the emergence URLs in non-Latin scripts, known as internationalized domain names (IDNs). The Internet may touch all corners of the globe, but for millions of people it still remains frustratingly out of touch. The URL—that web address that connects users to content—has long remained limited to a handful of Latin-based characters. [...]

A few months ago, before the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to allow people to register any domain they like, they made news by approving the .XXX top-level domain. In a split vote, the ICANN voted … Go to Source

Lauren Weinstein writes: “It’s time to end the TLD madness. It will take both time and some heavy lifting. But there are alternative methodologies — more efficient, extensible, and far more economical, much better suited to the Internet of the 21st century, and we need to start working on them now.” Go to Source

Automattic recently appeared on ICANN’s list of accredited registrars as ID #1531, meaning that the company is now a full-fledged accredited domain registrar. WordPress.com is one of Automattic’s most popular services, and domain mapping is one of their most popular upgrades, so this is potentially yet another game-changing move for the company. According to Automattic [...]


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