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VeriSign Marks 25 Years of .Com

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

VeriSign, the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, is hosting today a summit of Internet policymakers, industry leaders and other stakeholders in Washington, D.C., to kick off a celebration of the economic, social and cultural impact of .com.

First Citizens wins domain name case

Monday, 15 March 2010

First Citizens BancShares,a bank holding company has recently won a domain name case at the World Intellectual Property Organization against Richard Davis.

ICANN Board Appeases Trademark Holders, Defers .XXX, in Nairobi Meeting

Monday, 15 March 2010

ICANN concluded its week-long meeting in Nairobi on Friday 12 March with a number of notable and controversial decisions. The board meeting, the traditional final happening at its meetings held three times per year around the world, voted to defer a decision on the .XXX Top Level Domain and to scrap the Expressions of Interest Proposal for new generic TLD applicants. However they did vote to create a Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension System to protect trademark holder's rights in new gTLDs. But the decisions from the ICANN board were given a poor mark by Milton Mueller writing on the Internet Governance blog.

The Public Interest Registry to Deploy Enhanced Domain Security in June 2010

Monday, 15 March 2010

The Public Interest Registry (PIR) announced plans to complete the final step to realizing full DNSSEC deployment in the .ORG registry by accepting second level signed .ORG zones beginning in June of 2010.