ICANN is ten years old today.
On 30 September 1998, ICANN’s articles of incorporation were officially filed, recognizing a nonprofit public benefit corporation…not organized for the private gain of any person.
One month later, the first organizational meeting of the Board of Directors was held in New York at the Holiday Inn JFK and named […]

In a newsletter to members, the Net Commerce organization has
expressed its opposition and frustration to the Kentucky Governor’s
seizure of by 140 gambling-related domain names through a court order.
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Third level registrations for the .cm ccTLD will be launched on 15
October with .com.cm, net.cm and co.cm domains all available. The
launch will commence with a sunrise period for trademark holders and on
15 November registrations will be open to all.
NETCOM acknowledge .cm is a typo for .cn, but it is additionally a typo for
.com. However with […]

Are we or aren’t we running out of Web addresses? Well, the reply of course is yes, but as The Guardian’s Jack Schofield says, that story is ten years old. What’s really happening is a too-slow transition to [IPv6] .
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MeetDomainers is a meeting
for polish domainers to be held in Cracow,
Poland, from 3
to 4 October. nearly one hundred public will participate in that event –
experts in domain investing, hosting services, web development and domain
parking.
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The Greater Portland region in the United States state of Oregon has
put its hand up for a gTLD with a push from the local community for the
.pdx gTLD.
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The Ministry of Communications in Colombia has prepared a resolution
for regulating the management of the .co (Colombia) ccTLD. Currently
the ministry is preparing a process for a tender that will see the .co
ccTLD registry run by a third party.
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that directly from the .MX registry (NIX Mexico): NIC México launched that month the promotional campaign “Show Up with .MX”. With that campaign, NIC Mexico is looking forward to emphasize on the Mexican society the importance to have presence in World Wide Web and to Show Up through a .MX domain name.
that campaign was […]

ICANN today posted the schedule (http://cai.icann.org/en/cai/schedule) for its public Meeting to be held in Cairo 2-7 November.
The meeting, which plus serves as ICANN’s 2008 annual general meeting, takes place at the InterContinental CItyStars Hotel, Cairo.
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An initial draft version of the RFP for new gTLDs, an Applicant Guidebook , is due to be published by ICANN prior to their Cairo meeting in early November.
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