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Announcements, Industry News, Registries

Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief – Feb ’11

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Every quarter, Verisign reviews the state of the domain name industry and highlights important trends, growth opportunities and key performance indicators through in-depth research and analysis. This provides a holistic view of the domain industry and can help businesses make accurate forecasts.

Highlights of the Feb 2011 report include:

  • The fourth quarter of 2010 closed with a base of more than 205.3 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.5 million domain names, or 1.7 percent over the third quarter

  • Registrations have grown by 12.1 million, or 6.3 percent over the past year

  • The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 105.2 million names

  • The base of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) was 80.1 million domain names, a 1.1 percent increase quarter over quarter, and a 0.3 percent increase year over year

  • The order of the top TLDs in terms of zone size changed only slightly compared to the third quarter, as .org moved from fifth to fourth largest TLD, dropping .uk (united Kingdom) from fourth to fifth.

You can view the complete Brief here – http://verisigninc.com/assets/domain-name-report-feb-2011.pdf

ICANN Announcements

ICANN Formalizes Relationships with ccTLD Manager for Niue

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ICANN announced today that it has signed an Accountability Framework with the country code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .nu—Niue, Internet Users Society Niue (IUS-N).

The Accountability Framework program provides two mechanisms by which ccTLD managers can formalise their relationship with ICANN. The first is an Accountability Framework document that sets out the obligations of a ccTLD manager and ICANN. It also covers dispute resolution and termination and is designed for ccTLD managers requiring a formal document with ICANN.

The second mechanism is an exchange of letters between ICANN and the ccTLD manager designed for those for whom a simple statement of commitment is more appropriate.

Signed accountability framework and exchange of letters documents can be found at http://www.icann.org/cctlds/agreements.html.

Industry News, Registries

Afilias Announces Spanish Names for .INFO

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Company enhances the non-English speaking Internet by allowing individuals to register web site names with native Spanish characters.

Afilias, a registry services provider, announced that Internet users can now register .INFO domain names that include the Spanish characters á, é, í, ñ, ó, ú, and ü. The introduction of these new domain names, termed Internationalized Domain Names, now enables Spanish-speakers to establish Web sites using words commonly used in Spanish such as película.info, teléfono-móvil.info, Ídolo.info, Piñata.info, and others.

The registry states that this set of Spanish characters adds to their broad support of IDNs, bringing the total number of languages supported to ten. IT also states that these include scripts for Spanish, German, Polish, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Korean.

Industry News, Registries

“.Asia Celebrity Pioneers Program” Launched

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DotAsia Organisation announced the launch of its groundbreaking Celebrity Pioneer Program, offering celebrities worldwide the priority to register their name with .Asia before the public “landrush” launch on February 20, 2008. Early adopters announced included the latest major motion picture release from the director of Kung Fu Hustle, CJ7. The movie will start to utilize “www.cj7.asia” to promote its release in the next few months.

Under the program, celebrities from entertainment, art, culture, sports, business, politics, academia, are invited to participate as Celebrity Pioneers. Celebrity names are often neglected in the startup of a new domain registry. Yet they are often highly vulnerable to cyber-squatting. Through the Celebrity Pioneers Program, renowned individuals can utilize their .Asia domain to reach fans all over Asia for their next concert, movie or tour, while protecting their personal brand online.

Industry News, Registries

Nominet Establishes Charitable Foundation

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Nominet today announces the creation of the Nominet Foundation, a charitable organisation that will fund education, research and development initiatives in the UK Internet industry.

Nominet Board and membership give go-ahead for Foundation to be launched in Summer 2008

First year donation of £5 million will fund education, research and development.

Nominet today announces the creation of the Nominet Foundation, a charitable organisation that will fund education, research and development initiatives in the UK Internet industry.

Having received backing of the Nominet board and broad support from the Nominet membership, The Foundation will aim to launch in Summer 2008 with a first year donation of £5 million.