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Britney Spears' lip-syncing draws outrage and controversy in Australia, proof the Aussies have unrealistic expectations from the pop star.

According to our contacts at the current ICANN meeting in South Korea ICANN staff has announced that the schedule for new gTLDs will be pushed out even beyond Q2/2010 due to the controversy and amount of different opinions and comments from the community. In the meantime other working groups are pushing ahead to introduce IDN ccTLDs. When the the expansion of the root zones came up, there were no concerns to add as many as 100 zones in a short period of time. Another topic of discussion is

When someone registers a domain like glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com , they probably expect to hear from Glenn Beck's lawyers. In this case, it took two days. The site's anonymous operator tells Ars that the whole thing is satire—but that may not be enough to avoid charges of defamation. Gilbert Gottfried, what have you started? The controversy started a week ago in the Fark forums , where someone picked up on an old Gilbert Gottfried roast of the "comedian" (scare quotes ful

For over a year controversy has swirled around the plans of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit organization that sets policy for the Internet’s domain name address system, to authorize potentially hundreds of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) starting in 2010. At present there are only 21 gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, etc. If ICANN continues full steam ahead, however, you could soon see domain names ending in .paris, .bank, .go