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16 million unused IPv4 address now available for use on the Internet
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has found a little breathing room in the IPv4 address space with its recovery of a block of 16 million IPv4 addresses.
The IP addresses recovered were once used to connect older protocol packet-data networks with the fledgling Internet. The block of addresses, technically referred to as 14.0.0.0/8, is also known as Net-14.
Westlake Consulting Limited (WCL) was selected by ICANN’s Board of Directors to conduct an independent review of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) . WCL’s review team is gathering information from many different sources, including a series of in-person discussions and briefings at the ICANN meeting in New Delhi, from 10-14 February. WCL will conduct further interviews in person and electronically with a range of people who have an interest, directly or indirectly, in the ALAC, with a view to achieving the objectives of the Review:
Hong Kong, China, February 07, 2008 –(PR.com)– Application periods for .Asia Sunrise successfully completed according to schedule last week on January 31, 2008. At the time of closing, DotAsia received a total of 30,780 domain name applications. These include domain names received through Pre-Sunrise, Sunrise 1, Sunrise 2, Sunrise 3, as well as the Pioneer Domains Programs. .Asia Landrush (open public registration) is set to launch at 12:00 noon UTC, February 20, 2008.
India, Asia represent future of the changing face of the Internet
NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will open its 31 st International Public Meeting on 11 February 2008 in New Delhi, India, a country and a region certain to be a the forefront of the waves of changes coming to the Internet.
“India and Asia are at the heart of the Internet’s future — a future that ICANN is working on as we speak,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN’s Board Chairman. “Internet penetration in India is at just over five percent and growing fast — considering that one per cent is 11 million people coming online. ICANN’s work on Internationalized Domain Names and new top-level domains has the potential to reach out to rest of India and begin remaking the Internet as people connect in their own languages and scripts.”
DNS Stability: The Effect of New Generic Top Level Domains on the Internet Domain Name System [PDF, 53K]
The ICANN community has recently completed a policy development process regarding the introduction of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This effort took place within ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) (see http://gnso.icann.org/) and resulted in a set of recommendations to guide ICANN in introducing new gTLDs to the namespace.