ICANN set to allow non-Latin domain names
Internet is set to see a major change in the way the world wide web works.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has announced that they are all set to allow usage of non-Latin characters in domain names.
Until now, only Latin characters are allowed in domain names. [...]
Cyrillic web addresses coming to town soon!
Russian communications ministry official Vladimir Vassiliev said in a statement that Russians would soon be able to create internet addresses in Cyrillic alphabets.
This announcement came after the ICANN meeting which took some major decisions which could change the way web worked.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has already said that they [...]
ICANN could approve new types of domain names
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to open its annual general meeting.
They are going to decide on whether to allow new form of domain names.
ICANN president Paul Twomey said in a statement: “Apart from the .com, .net or .org, the 1.3 billion web users [...]
.org domains to become expensive
Public Interest Registry has revealed that they are now increasing the fees of the .org domains.
They had disclosed this in a letter sent to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
They do not require the approval for this price increase however.
This fee increase is for the reseller of these domain [...]
VeriSign increasing registration fees for domains
Internet services company VeriSign has announced that they are now increasing the registry fees for .com and .net domain names.
The company added that this increase is as per their agreements with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The new increased rates would be valid from October this year.
The [...]
Millions of domain names registered with false information
US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has reported that millions of domain names currently registered with the authorities are filled with false or junk information. As per the released report, Approximately 2.3 million domain names have been registered with obviously false information and another 1.6 million were registered with [...]
