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ICANN wrapped up its meeting in Nairobi on Friday, but delayed a vote on the creation of the .xxx domain, which was the most anticipated board decision in the meeting.Members of the ICANN community were looking forward to the decision because many say that it tests ICANN’s transparency and accountability mechanisms. However, the board chose [...]
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ICANN Ends Meeting With No Decision on .xxx
March 13th, 2010 
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ICANN Approves Domain Names
October 31st, 2009 admin This is a bad day for the English language, after ICANN approved non-Latin characters for use in Internet domain names. Having invented the Internet–40 years ago yesterday–the U.S. has given away whatever advantage it offers English-speakers. This was bound to happen after the U.S. recently recanted on its “ownership” of the Internet [...]
New Role Urged for ICANN
June 27th, 2009 admin The world’s regional Internet registries (RIRs) have added their weight to call for Internet governance to be privatized. The RIRs have followed the European Union’s demand, proposed by European Commissioner Viviane Reding last month, for the ending of the collaboration agreement between ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce. The RIRs, responsible [...]
