Proposal From ICANN For Projects Contest

ICANN announced the selection of two of their projects for the online system of voting within the World Summit on the Information Society Project phase.

The names of the projects are “DNS Entrepreneurship Center” and “Investigating DNS Abuse / Misuse for Public Safety Community”.

The first one is related to an announcement that was made last year about supporting communities in Africa and the Middle East. ICANN was and continues to be involved in the domain names field in these two areas by providing expertise for the entrepreneurs and by helping them to implement their ideas regarding this industry.

The second project comes as a response to the request of Public Safety Communities who want investigators to be assisted in order to better understand how the DNS is undermined by cybernetic attackers and gather information about their activities.

NordNet SA Received Approval from ICANN

Following Section 3 in the RAA’s Data Retention Specification, the company NordNet SA sent a request to ICANN about the Data Waiver program. According to this reglementation, if the registrar falls under the same law that led to the request to ICANN, the data retention waiver should be granted to it.

The previous requests made ICANN offer data retention waivers to OVH SAS, Mailclub SAS, Online SAS, Gandi SAS based on the fact that their compliance with the data collection requirements in RAA regulations came into contradiction with the French laws.

Nonetheless, there are still a few terms that ICANN requires to be taken into account and will remain AS-IS and the waiver will apply only to the period of retention after the sponsorship.

The waiver will be applied during the term which was signed by the Registrar and similar actions will be done for other registrars in France if requested.

ICANN Publishes Supplement to BCG Study

ICANN has released a supplement (“Which Wheels to Grease? Reducing Friction in the Internet Economy”) to the BCG study about how to reduce e-friction in developing countries who face obstacles in delivering services within their businesses. According to BCG, there is a potential of economical growth of at least 2.5 in GDP and 7% for the SME revenues.

The update was done by the Boston Consulting Group and analyzes the most important causes of the e-friction as well as nominating the countries that face the same problems and could work together for a common solution.

While it is clear that once these issues are solved it will lead to more economic benefits and will speed up the countries growth, the study shows that improvements should be made in infrastructure, information and domain names industry. BCG also shows the main causes of this obstacle which seem to be financial condition, the propportion of urban and rural population, the English language knowledge, and the density of inhabitants in a certain region.

Thus, the main focus should be laid on developing rural areas infrastructure by investing more funds and implementing the best and most efficient technologies so that more people could be brought online by simplifying their access with the minimum of costs and removing bureaucracy.

According to Mr. Fadi Chehade, CEO at ICANN, there is an average rate of 10% per year in global growth of digital economy so the potential of investing in this domain is fairly consistent.

New Domain Names Available from Afilias

A new wide choice of domain names is available now with the release of more than 160.000 options from Afilias, after the end of Name Collision Management phase with ICANN.

In a blog post that Roland LaPlante has published, it has been made public that these domain names include caribbean.blue, bake.organic and planet.red and a full description about the possibilities that arise with them was presented.

Thus, the .BLACK domain name is meant for people who seek and admire style and classic items, but for also businesses who include the name “black” into their description.

.BLUE is intended for anything related to water sports and it could be used by the people who are engaged into activities related to autism.

People in Korea will have now an easier possibility to register domain names ending in .KIM, this one being very popular in that part of the globe. It is also a name that could be used by Turkish businesses as this word is translated as “Who” in this language.

.ORGANIC will be available for all the activities related to genuinely organic food and products, while .PINK will target cosmetic and women skin care products.

.SHIKSHA is meant to cover education activities and educational institutions in India, while .RED is intended to cover various celebrations such as weddings or arts websites.

Finally, .移动 will reach the Chinese consumers that are interested in mobile phone products.

Daily Domain Sales 06-29-2015 lead by ePassport.com at $10,550 on DropCatch

ePassport.com sold for $10,550 on DropCatch.

Top Domain Sales on June 29, 2015 are :

ePassport.com – $10,550

OnlineCoupon.com – $8,700

Described.com – $5,000

Keyo.com – $4,200

PersonFinder.com – $3,733

DogClothing.com – $3,350

Tourist.org – $3,100

E-D.com – $2,150

BellSouthPWP.net – $1,949

243333.com – $1,620

Babka.com – $1,575

WCCG.com – $1,500

VisualThinking.com – $1,435

Apprehensive.com – $1,300

BeachCraftRattan.com – $1,081

SkillAcademy.com – $1,026

HG6858.com – $1,025

HoboSphere.com – $1,000

Modulus.de – €1,000

LiveDocs.com – $980

Hawaiiattorney.com – $862

831222.com – $860

Quwowo.com – $858

HotelBooking.org – $800

2344.net – $679

AFactor.com – $625

ZYYH.com – $614

WCKB.com – $565

FishingHub.com – $545

Xianlun.com – $541

94600.com – $530

AfilmunFinished.com – $518

LegalJobSpot.com – $500

94429.com – $483

TheBorough.com – $481

TheVegiterranean.com – $460

eKnight.com – $460

RepossessedProperty.com – $450

92438.com – $443

97445.com – $441

UltimatePowerProfits.com – $440

WheelerPlantation.org – $411

PHMP.com – $410

ProfitWise.com – $406

LKHN.com – $400

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