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  • Australia goes slow for dot-info

    Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in the rush to register with the new global top level domain (gTLD) .info.

  • Dot-info falls flat in Australia and Asia

    Industry response to the imminent release of the long awaited .info top-level domain (TLD) has been luke-warm at best with Asian companies forming only 5 percent of the overall requests.

  • TLDs move step closer

    The new Internet top level domains came a step closer to reality today when the ICANN board authorised the president and general counsel to complete the negotiation of the remaining appendices to the agreements for the unsponsored top level domains .name, .pro, .biz and .info.

  • Can ICANN help the rich get richer?

    The Internet's governing body was supposed to open up the landscape to small Web address registrars. So why were so many big players awarded new top-level domains?

  • ICANN gets commerce blessing on VeriSign

    After five days of talks and some changes, the Department of Commerce has given its approval to an agreement between VeriSign and the Internet's domain name management body that would allow VeriSign to maintain control over dot-com, the most popular group of Internet domain names, for the foreseeable future.

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