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Latest ICANN guidance and remaining challenges means new TLDs are a long way away. The introduction of new top level domain names, such as .green and .food, looks to be at least a couple years away from reality. ICANN’s latest draft guidebook for entities wishing to apply for a new top level domain name states that the application process is likely to start in the “first half of 2010″. Previously, the goal was the first quarter of 2010, but even that was the result of multiple delays. As

With a day to go before the joint project agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the United States Department of Commerce (DoC) is set to expire, calls for continuous US oversight role have been reiterated by US politicians and private-sector representatives who reason that this oversight is especially needed in the face of the planned introduction of new internet top-level domains like .shop.ICANN is a “captured regulator,” the Coalition Against Do

I always caution small business people about spending too much money on their first website. I’ve told them how it was possible to build one for nothing by using one of the free starter sites offered by many registrars. This would give them a chance to get their feet wet without the threat of drowning in red ink (Boy do I love to mix metaphors!). At the time I was thinking of the more conventional generic Top Level Domains (TLDs) like .Com, .Net and .Org, but there was no reason you couldn�t d

Here’s what is really happening with new TLDs. I’ve written before about why I’m opposed to how ICANN is releasing new top level domain names, even though I stand to benefit financially from the release. But over the past couple months we’ve heard plenty of spin from everyone involved in the process. So I want to clear a few things up. I’m going to tell you what everyone is thinking, but may not want to come out and publicly say. New TLDs will be introduced - There’s no stopping thi

Just in from the .CM registry for the third time they have a start date for the Go Live registrations. The Go Live registration for .CM domain opens on September 18, 2009 at 08:00am UTC. The .CM registry also announced that all domains won at Namejet.com will be turned on as soon as paid for. Here is the official notice: “”"Netcom.cm Sarl has decided to move the registration platform for .CM top-level domains to its own server instead of a hosted version with Cocca. This will allow Netco