Web Infrastructure

ICANN has announced that it will start hosting gatherings at various high-profile locations to encourage more discussion and education about their plants to introduce a new gTLD (generic Top-Level Domain) program. The events will include on-site consultation to answer many of the concerns people have about regulations, trademark policies and …

Numerous New Yorkers have gotten behind the idea of a .nyc TLD, but multiple companies and organizations are fighting for the right to manage the domain. Yesterday, Former New York City Mayor Koch made news when he announced his support for dotNYC LLC, whose plan calls for selling the names …

For years, ICANN has operating under what’s known as the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with the United States Department of Commerce. The agreement is for “the purpose of the joint development of the mechanisms, methods, and procedures necessary to effect the transition of Internet domain name and addressing system (DNS) …

Techies in the know are aware that the current IP address system, IPv4, will run out of addresses by early 2011. To avoid a cataclysmic event two years from now when people find they can’t get on the Internet, the need to switch to IPv6 is being chiseled into the …

Just in time for the suspected announcement of the new iPhone, here’s a post about an application that lets you use any iPhone or iPod Touch as a web server. Launched last month under the name Serversman, it lets any iPhone/iPod Touch connected to a WiFi or 3G network be …

According to the Italian company Roma TLD S.r.l., the government of Rome has expressed interest in establishing a .ROMA Top-Level Domain (TLD). Roma TLD plans to join an organization called dotCities, which is a collaborative effort of .BERLIN, .PARIS, .BCN, .NYC, and .HAMBURG. The organization is part of an effort …

ICANN CEO Paul Twomey went to Congress today for a scheduled hearing on its performance and future relationship with the U.S. government. The non-profit organization received a battering of criticism from congressmen on a number of issues. Republican Cliff Stearns of Florida attacked ICANN for its $7 million surplus. He …

There are now 183 million domains registered on the web, according to The Domain Name Industry Brief (PDF), a quarterly report authored by Versign. Last quarter, domain registrations rose 3%. So far this year, an average of 2.4 million new .com and .net registrations are made each month. These two …

Former Vice President Al Gore joined forces with Vint Cerf today to publicly support ICANN, which is set to appear before Congress tomorrow for a hearing to determine its future relationship with the United States government. Vint Cerf is widely considered to be the father of the Internet and is …

Following the lead of Barack Obama in the United States, the Conservative Party in the UK is looking to create a new Cybersecurity Minister position. The announcement was made by Conservative MP James Brokenshire of Hornchurch at a Microsoft computer forensics course attended by some 200 law enforcement officers. He …