Study Shows German Internet Users Prefer Memorable Domain Names for Cities and Regions (CircleID)
The majority of private Internet users in Germany favour the increased usage of local domain endings as in .city or .region in the future because the more memorable names will help them to better find the information that they are looking for. That is the core result of a representative survey that was commissioned by eco Verband der deutschen Internetwirtschaft and conducted by the market ......more...NEW YORK (AP) -- A New Zealand lawyer long active on Internet addressing policies was elected Friday as the first ... (WIBW-TV Topeka)
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers selected Peter Dengate Thrush, 52, over telecommunications expert Roberto Gaetano, of Italy, to head the nine-year-old agency tasked with handling domain names and issues related to allowing Internet computers to find Web sites and route e-mail....more... Internet Policymakers May Punt on Privacy Issue (Washington Post)
The nonprofit organization that manages the Internet's domain-name system is set to vote Wednesday on changes to the Web site registration process that would make it easier for people to shield their identities online and, indirectly, cut spammers off from an easy-to-mine database of legitimate e... ...more... Internet agency forms group to consider interim procedures for non-English domain names (Savannah Morning News)
NEW YORK - A key Internet oversight agency formed a working group Friday to speed up the process of assigning addresses entirely in other languages. ...more... Domain Names Agency Elects New Zealander Dengate Thrush As Chair, Replacing Internet Pioneer (Canadian Business)
NEW YORK (AP) - A New Zealand lawyer long active on Internet addressing policies was elected Friday to replace Internet pioneer Vint Cerf as chairman of a key oversight agency....more... Facebook to speak Chinese with .cn domain name (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Facebook, the social networking Internet site that is sweeping the globe with a quarter million new members every day, has targeted the world's second-largest Internet market, registering a local Web address in China....more... Non-English domain group formed (The Globe and Mail)
Introduction called one of the most important changes to the domain name space since its inception ...more... Facebook to speak Chinese with .cn domain name (ZDNet)
Company registers facebook.cn but not facebook.com.cn--that URL fortunately redirects to trademark holder's site. Facebook, the social-networking site that is sweeping the globe with a quarter million new members every day, has targeted the world's second-largest Internet market, registering a local Web address in China. Facebook has yet......more... ICANN Punts on WHOIS Privacy Proposal (Slashdot)
An anonymous reader writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has essentially put off consideration of a proposal that would have dissolved a requirement that domain name registrars collect and display personal information about people who register Web site names. Privacy activists said the WHOIS database has become a data-mining dream for marketers and spammers, to ......more... |