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Announcements, Registries

.MN/.BZ Unavailability Notice: January 12, 2008

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The LogicBoxes .MN/.BZ Production environment be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule:

Maintenance Window
Date – January 12, 2008.
Time: 15.00 hrs – 19.00 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 4 Hours

Affected Systems – Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management and Whois Lookup on the Live interface.

This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which will continue to resolve properly. Please feel free to get in touch with our Support team, in case of any queries/doubts.

Announcements

Possible ‘Next Steps’ in Dispute Resolution

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Document released by ICANN for Public Notice

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Following the posting of the Frameworks and Principles for Accountability and Transparency, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers today published a document that countenances some possible additional improvements in dispute resolution mechanisms.

In response to feedback on accountability and transparency issues during the consultation process — especially feedback received during a workshop at ICANN’s Los Angeles meeting held in November 2007 — the ‘Next Steps’ document contains two ideas:

ICANN Announcements

‘Dashboard’ Allows Window into ICANN Performance

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MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers today released the first version of a new ‘Dashboard’ that will offer measurements of ICANN’s performance in numerous areas across the organization.

“At this stage the ‘Dashboard’ has reports from Finance, IANA, and IETF request queue. We are looking for community feedback on this tool and will expand the reports available over time,” said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN’s President and CEO.

Industry News

Netcraft December 2007 Web Server Survey sees ongoing record Growth

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In Netcraft’s December 2007 survey they received responses from 155,230,051 sites. This was an increase of 5.4 million sites since November, continuing the very strong growth seen during this year. Netcraft point out the web has grown by nearly 50 million sites since December 2006.

This once again breaks the record for growth of the web in one year. The previous highest growth was 30 million sites in 2006. The growth is also impressive in percentage terms, with the web growing by 48% since last December — although this remains far less than the runaway growth of 160% seen back in 2000.

Traditionally hosted websites continue to grow strongly, however the most dramatic increase in the number of websites comes from blogging sites, with the three largest – MySpace, Live Spaces and Blogger – accounting for around 25 million sites in the survey.

Netcraft’s report also includes graphs and tables including Total Sites Across All Domains August 1995 – December 2007 and Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 – December 2007. To see their report, please click here.

ICANN Announcements

Accountability and Transparency Document Released

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Frameworks and Principles for Accountability and Transparency revised after further community input

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers today released a final draft of a key accountability document that has been amended to incorporate additional community input, including that of the Governmental Advisory Committee.

The Frameworks and Principles on Accountability and Transparency document has been in development since late 2006. The process began with a consultation that asked the community for their views on improvements to accountability and transparency at ICANN. An issues paper summarizing these comments was posted in January 2007. Based on the feedback received and the input from the One World Trust report on accountability and transparency, a draft set of Frameworks and Principles was released for comment in June 2007.