SIDN Closing in On Another Milestone : 6 Million .NL Domain Names
Sidn, the company behind .NL domain extension, is approaching 6 million domain name registrations under .NL. The company achieved the 5.5 million milestone in this year.
.NL is one of the most popular extensions in the world.Individuals are allowed to register .NL domain names for 11 years ,since 2003.
The .NL ccTLD of the Netherlands is the third largest ccTLD in the world after .DE with 15 million registrations and .CO.UK with 10 million registrations.
21% of households in the Netherlands own at least one .NL domain name and 83% of firms in the contry own a website.
At the time of writing this article there are 5,513,590 registered .NL domain names.
Check out EuroDNS here to register your .NL domain name.
ICANN : The GAC Elects New Chair and Vice-Chairs
With the incumbent Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee and its three Vice-Chairs having reached the maximum terms of their mandates, the GAC held elections for these four positions during the ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles.
Thomas Schneider, the GAC Representative for Switzerland, has been elected as the new GAC Chair. The newly elected Vice-Chairs are GAC Representatives Olga Cavalli of Argentina, Henri Kassen of Namibia and Gema M. Campillos González of Spain.
Furthermore, the GAC decided to appoint two additional Vice-Chairs, Wanawit Ahkuputra of Thailand and Ihsan Durdu of Turkey.
This announcement was sourced from :
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-10-16-en
ICANN : The 2014 Nominating Committee Announces Selection of a Member to the ICANN Board of Directors
The 2014 Nominating Committee (NomCom) is pleased to announce the selection of Wolfgang Kleinwächter as a member to the ICANN Board of Directors.
The position became vacant following the recent resignation of Board member Ms. Olga Madruga-Forti, selected by the 2012 NomCom. Wolfgang Kleinwächter will take up Seat No. 2 on the ICANN Board of Directors immediately and will serve for the remainder of the term vacated by Ms. Madruga-Forti. He previously served on the Board in Seat No. 8 after Judith Vazquez resigned from the Board in 2013.
Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Wolfgang Kleinwächter
Wolfgang Kleinwächter is a Professor for International Communication Policy and Regulation at the Department for Media and Information Sciences of the University of Aarhus in Denmark where he teaches “Internet Policy and Regulation” since 1998.
He has studied Communication, International Law and International Relations at the University of Leipzig (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1981). His Academic Teaching Experiences includes courses and lectures on Internet Governance at numerous universities around the globe, including, inter alia die School of International Services at American University in Washington D.C. and the Faculty of Journalism at Lomonossow University in Moscow.
He is involved in Internet Governance issues since 1997 and has participated – in various capacities – in 45 ICANN meetings. He served five years in the NomCom (2009/2010 as its chair) and was since 2011 a member of theGNSO Council, elected by the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) where he is a member of the NCUC.
In the WSIS process he was a member of the Civil Society Bureau, co-chaired the Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) and was appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as for the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG). In the Tunis Summit he was part of the governmental delegation of Denmark. Between 2006 and 2010 he served as Special Adviser to the Chair of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Nitin Desai. In 2011/2012 he was a member of the UNCSTD Working Group on IGF Improvement. In 2012 he joined the German governmental delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT) and served in the Informal Expert Group of the World Telecommunication Policy Forum in 2013.
He is a co-founder of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EURODIG), the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET), the Summer School on Internet Governance (SSIG) and chair of the ICANNStudienkreis. He served in the Advisory Board of the dotmobi Registry and became in 2010 an International Adviser to CNNIC. In the EU, he was involved in the Safer Internet Action Plan (SIAP), the Task Force on the Internet of Things and the Inter-Regional Information Society Initiative (IRISI). In the Council of Europe he chaired the Expert Group on Cross Border Internet (2009 – 2011).
For more than 20 years he was a member of the Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and served as the president of the IAMCR Law Section between 1988 and 1998. He was a member of the Program Committee for INET 2002 in Washington D.C. and a Key-Note Speaker, Panelist, Moderator and Rapporteur of numerous international conferences.
His research work includes more than 100 international publications, including 7 books. Since 2011 he is the editor of the publication series MIND (Multistakeholder Internet Dialogue). He also served as member of several advisory boards of scientific journals, including Transnational Data and Communication Report, Computer Law and Security Report, The Journal of Media Law and Practice, Gazette and the Journal for Virtual Reality.
He testified in Hearings in the Deutsche Bundestag and the European Parliament. He is Chair of the Board of Medienstadt Leipzig e.V., a recognized At Large Structure under the ICANN Bylaws and got the “Internet Award” the highest Internet prize in Germany, by the German Internet Economy Association (eco) in 2012.
This announcement was sourced from :
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-4-2014-10-16-en
Sedo’s Premium .JETZT Auction Closed With No Sales
Sedo’s .JETZT domain name auction closed a few minutes ago. The auction featured 45 premium .jetzt domain names and none of the domain names included in the auction received bids.
The auction closed with no bids and no sales.
The auction included premium .JETZT domain names,including :
Immobilien.jetzt
Auktion.jetzt
Geschenke.jetzt
Cash.jetzt
Chat.jetzt
Filme.jetzt
Kaufen.jetzt
Reise.jetzt
Rightside To Launch 11 More New gTLDs in 2014
Rightside Group,Ltd announced recently that it will launch 11 other Top Level Domains by the end of 2014,bringing its in-market portfolio to 28.
You can read the press release after the jump :
“Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME), a leading provider of domain name services that advance the way businesses and consumers define and present themselves online, announced it will launch 11 additional Top Level Domains (TLDs) by the end of 2014, bringing its in-market portfolio to 28. The diverse group of TLDs is expected to appeal to individuals looking to express their interests and personalities online, as well as businesses and entrepreneurs seeking web addresses that are both more memorable and relevant for their customers.
Next week, members of the armed forces, as well as military families, supporters, and veterans, can begin registering .ARMY, .NAVY, .AIRFORCE, and .VET web addresses. Launch activities will include a home-page promotion with registrar partner GoDaddy on Veterans Day, as well as a salute to U.S. veterans through a donation in support of Team Rubicon, a group of military veterans that partner with first responders to provide disaster relief. The domains become widely available on October 22.
Among the new TLDs geared toward professionals and businesses, .MORTGAGE and .MARKET will become available on November 5, with .ENGINEER following on November 19. The new domains are expected to be well-received in the coming weeks as mortgage brokers, markets of all types and sizes, and professional associations discover and adopt these new alternatives to web addresses ending in legacy extensions such as .COM.
Wayne MacLaurin, Rightside’s Chief Technology Officer, plans to have the company’s engineering team use the new .ENGINEER extension for email correspondence. “Once the .ENGINEER domain is available, all the engineers on our team will have email addresses ending in @rightside.engineer, which will identify them as engineering professionals when they’re corresponding with colleagues, external partners, and within the tech community,” MacLaurin said. “Engineers take great pride in their profession, and I expect the .ENGINEER extension to catch on with civil, electrical, mechanical, software, and many other kinds of engineers in addition to those in the technology field.”
On December 10, the company will unveil .SOFTWARE, expected to be popular across the software developer and tech-startup communities, and .AUCTION, which will be useful to people, businesses, and charities wishing to help people find their auction-related websites, social feeds, and eBay profiles.
The launch of .DENTIST on December 24 will usher in the ability for dental professionals to move beyond the scarcity of web domains available with legacy extensions. Instead of relying on long, hard-to-remember web addresses, dentists will be able to connect with prospective and current patients using relevant and memorable web addresses featuring their locations and/or names, such as www.Aspen.dentist, www.orthodontic.dentist, or www.davidsmith.dentist. These new TLDs offer the most memorable, relevant, and cost-effective way to improve visibility with new and existing patients at every point of contact – through online and offline ads, web and search traffic, signage, emails, and business cards.
Also launching on Christmas Eve, .REHAB will become available for clinics and professionals engaged in a variety of rehabilitation services, from physical rehab to substance-abuse treatment.
Rightside’s user-friendly consumer site name.com makes getting a new web or email address a simple process, one that is connecting individuals and businesses with relevant, memorable domains for themselves and their companies.”
