The Freename Forum

... Ocean, the last remaining part of the British Indian Ocean Territory, has regained its sovereignty after lengthy negotiations made headlines around the world. However, fears that the top level domain .io and with it hundreds of thousands of registered domains could disappear from the internet ...

... with the support of the Digital Commons Cooperative and uses freely available software to bring together data from numerous organisations around the world. To date, over 12,000 co-operatives have been added to the map. It provides information on co-operatives sorted by name, sector or ...

The non-profit World Wide Web Foundation is being liquidated after around 15 years. This was announced by its founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith. Instead, work on the ‘Solid Protocol’ is to be intensified. Founded on 17 November 2009 in Washington ...

... In contrast, the NIS2UmsuCG has far-reaching effects on the economy. For them, the annual compliance costs are expected to increase by around EUR 2.2 billion; in total, one-off costs of around EUR 2.1 billion are expected to be incurred, almost exclusively in the category of introducing ...

... this indicates that a local domicile or Kuwaiti nationality is required to register a .kw domain. With fees of no less than KWD 15, i.e. around EUR 45 per year and domain, .kw is in the middle price range for ccTLDs; with currently only five officially accredited domain registrars, however, ...

The top level domain .ai remains the domain extension of the moment: within a year, the country code of Anguilla has increased by around 225,000 domains. In the past, .com achieved similar figures in half a month, but the end of the growth seems to have been reached. We would have loved ...

... lengthy negotiations. The future of the top level domain .io is therefore once again in the stars. Originally consisting of seven atolls with around 60 mostly uninhabited small islands, the British Indian Ocean Territory had mainly military significance in the end. In 1965, Great Britain separated ...

... to watch. The webinar, organised by GoDaddy Corporate Domains and the trademark protection service provider Silka, took place in two sessions of around 35 minutes each over two days. The first was ‘UDRP Essentials - Protect Your Brand in the Digital Age’, followed by ‘Mastering UDRP Strategy ...

... virtually every other gTLD. Furthermore, VeriSign must report ‘any cyber incident, physical intrusion or infrastructure damages’ to ICANN. With around 157 million registered .com domains, VeriSign is therefore far more exposed to abuse than any other registry of a generic domain extension. The ...

... The symposium invites researchers, developers, and operators (of any description) to present on subjects including, but not limited to, ideas around extending the DNS protocol, optimizing performance, safeguarding DNS communications, and increasing the reliability and availability of DNS service ...