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Featured Blogs Let American Telcos and Cablecos Merge - But Declare Infrastructure a Utility
While there is much discussion in the United States about the mergers of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, and of AT&T and DirectTV, issues such as this are generally discussed from a very narrow perspective and, we maintain, from the wrong underlying telecoms regime operating in that country - one that has stifled competition in the telecoms for nearly two decades. The same wrong parameters apply to the endless debates on net neutrality an issue that is, by the way, largely of significance to the US market alone. more »
Jun 03, 2014 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 4
Related Topics: Policy & Regulation, Telecom Tough Choices Two Years In
At the start of my term as New TLD Applicant Group (NTAG) Chair, I wrote about the importance of the 50th ICANN meeting for applicants. The meeting is significant, not only as a milestone for ICANN, but also because it marks two years since ICANN began processing new gTLD applications. Two years in, the program is at an inflection point. The final initial evaluation result was published two weeks ago and the first ICANN auction will take place this week. more »
Jun 02, 2014 - by Jacob Malthouse - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Top-Level Domains Second House Amendment Ups the Stakes on IANA Transition
The House of Representatives has passed another measure related to the proposed IANA functions transition, and has again attached it to "must pass" legislation. This move ups the ante and may well be the final straw that compels the Senate Commerce Committee to hold its own oversight hearing on the IANA transition proposal.On May 30th the House adopted the Duffy Amendment to the Appropriations bill funding the Commerce, Justice, and State Departments in FY 2015. The final vote on the amendment was 229 in favor and 178 opposed -- it was fairly partisan outcome, with only ten Democrats voting aye while just one Republican voted nay. more »
Jun 02, 2014 - by Philip S. Corwin - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Law, Policy & Regulation Antony Van Couvering Interviews Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos (Video)
Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos, filmed recently at ICANN 49 in Singapore. Alexa and Antony discuss how brands are dealing with new gTLD, registry strategies for success and how to market a new gTLD. more »
Jun 02, 2014 - by Antony Van Couvering - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Top-Level Domains Alternatives for .COM ? (Part 1)
There are plenty of new domain names and if .COM never had any real identity or true meaning, it is quite possible that new gTLDs may bring new ideas to those who want to acquire a global identity without focusing on a country, a niche market, a specific industry, a community or just anything which does not cover "the world". I made a list of these new domain names with potential to replace .COM and I believe that the alternatives might be in the list down below. more »
Jun 01, 2014 - by Jean Guillon - Comments: 1
Related Topics: Domain Names, Top-Level Domains Telegeography's Submarine Cable Map Now Lets You Link to Specific Cables or Landing Points
Want to easily show people where a specific submarine cable goes? Or what cables terminate in a particular location? Last year I wrote about Telegeography's cool interactive submarine cable map and how useful it is to understand the submarine cable side of Internet infrastructure. In that article I mentioned how great it would be if you could get a link for a particular cable or location that you could pass along to other people. more »
May 31, 2014 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Internet Protocol, Telecom Antony Van Couvering Interviews Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows (Video)
Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows, filmed recently at ICANN 49 in Singapore. more »
May 30, 2014 - by Antony Van Couvering - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Top-Level Domains Disclosing Unique User IDs in URLs Doesn't Violate ECPA - In re Zynga/Facebook
In separate lawsuits, plaintiffs alleged Facebook and Zynga violated the Stored Communications Act (in Zynga's case, also the Wiretap Act). The crux of plaintiffs' allegations was that when a Facebook user clicked on an ad or a link, the HTTP request sent by the browser included the user's Facebook ID and the address of the webpage the user was viewing when he or she clicked the link. An end user's request to play Farmville would result in the transmission of similar information to third parties. more »
May 28, 2014 - by Venkat Balasubramani - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Law, Privacy Antony Van Couvering Interviews Adrian Kinderis, CEO of Bombora Technologies (Video)
The talk ranges from new gTLD introductions, the role of ccTLDs in the new landscape, the relationships between registries and registrars, and some predictions for the future. more »
May 28, 2014 - by Antony Van Couvering - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, Registry Services, ICANN, Top-Level Domains FCC's "Commercial Reasonableness" Standard Already a Dismal Failure
T-Mobile filed a petition today making it clear that the FCC's commercial reasonableness standard is a failure. Anyone following net neutrality knows that the FCC is proposing to authorize discrimination and pay-for-priority deals known as fast lanes. The FCC is claiming we need not worry, however, because the FCC can make sure that entrepreneurs and users face only "commercially reasonable" discrimination. more »
May 28, 2014 - by Marvin Ammori - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation, Telecom Why Do We Accept $10 Security on $1,000,000 Data?
Last week we heard of yet another egregious security breach at an online provider, as crooks made off with the names, address, and birth dates of eBay users, along with encrypted passwords. They suggest you change your password, which is likely a good idea, and you better also change every other place you used the same password. But that's not much help since you can't change your name, address, and birth date, which are ever so handy for phishing and identity theft. more »
May 25, 2014 - by John Levine - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Security DOTCOM Act Passes House as Rubio Leads Senate Call for IANA Oversight Hearings
The Shimkus Amendment to the $601 billion National Defense Authorization Act (HR 4435) passed the House of Representatives on May 22nd by a mostly partisan vote of 245–177. While all 228 Republicans present and voting supported the amendment only 17 Democrats voted "aye", with 177 in opposition. Final passage on the entire bill was a bipartisan vote of 325–98. The Senate has not yet passed its version of a FY 2015 Pentagon funding bill, and once it does all the differences between the two versions must be reconciled before it can be sent to President Obama for his signature. more »
May 24, 2014 - by Philip S. Corwin - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Domain Names, ICANN, Internet Governance, Policy & Regulation, Top-Level Domains Help ICANN Fix Whois Conflicts With Data Privacy Law
ICANN has opened a comment period in relation to whois conflicts with local law / data privacy law. Of course anytime ICANN, or anyone else, tries to make any changes to whois policy there are issues. Whois is, for a variety of reasons, an emotive subject... under EU law many feel that registration details for domain name registrants need to be handled in a manner that is more compatible with the EU Directives and local law more »
May 23, 2014 - by Michele Neylon - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Policy & Regulation, Privacy, Whois The Demand and Supply Imbalance in Telecoms
You can't open a newspaper today, listen to the radio, or watch TV without hearing about the enormous explosion in the use of telecommunications technology - be it fixed or mobile broadband, the internet, social media, smartphones, tablets, wearables, IoT, cloud computing, the list is endless... Yet, at the same time, many telcos and ISPs are struggling to maintain their profitability. This defies economic logic. more »
May 23, 2014 - by Paul Budde - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Access Providers, Broadband, Policy & Regulation, Telecom Demystifying Premium Domain Names
For the purpose of this article it is not necessary to concentrate too much on defining what a Premium domain name is and what it is useful for: all that we need to know is simple, a premium domain name is often a memorable generic name, short or medium in length and highly valuable due to its relevance in search. However, when it comes to finding out how to register a premium domain name then it becomes much more difficult because you won't necessarily know where to go. more »
May 23, 2014 - by Jean Guillon - Comments: 6
Related Topics: Domain Names, Top-Level Domains Preserve Dot ART
ICANN has a choice: it can promote the arts or destroy their common identity. ".ART " can become an authentic Internet address for the arts and represent its community. We are on the cusp of an extraordinary opportunity with the simple use of a single word: a virtual place within the Internet for the arts and a virtual palace to the arts built site-by-site by millions of artists and art institutions each with an individualized artistic contribution gathered around the simple namespace of ".ART." more »
May 22, 2014 - by Joshua Wattles - Comments: 0
Related Topics: ICANN, Internet Governance, Top-Level Domains Human Network, Human Challenges
It has now been about eight months since I joined the Internet Society as the Director of Deployment & Operationalization and I still get asked on a fairly regular basis "what do you do?" Well, with ISOC's Chief Internet Technology Officer Leslie Daigle's recent departure, and with my time here having exceeded both my first 120 days and my first 6 months, this seems like the right moment to reflect on my brief tenure here so far and perhaps pontificate a bit on where we're going - and why. more »
May 22, 2014 - by Chris Grundemann - Comments: 0
Related Topics: Internet Governance, Internet Protocol, Multilinguism, Net Neutrality, Policy & Regulation Webinar Tomorrow (May 22) - IPv6 and Telecom: IPv4 is Finally Running Out. Now What?
What is the impact of IPv6 on telecommunications, VoIP, unified communications, etc? Why should telecom operators care about IPv6? What VoIP systems already support IPv6? What efforts are underway within organizations like the IETF and the SIP Forum to ensure that telecommunications can work over IPv6? more »
May 21, 2014 - by Dan York - Comments: 0
Related Topics: IP Addressing, IPv6, Telecom, VoIP
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