Sedo’s Dot Chinese Online Auction is Underway! No Bids So Far
The Dot Chinese Online auction is live on Sedo. The auction features 100 dot Chinese domain names,at different reserve ranges.
At the time of publication this article, none of the domain names included in the auction received bids.
The auction will close June 2,2014.
Some interesting domain names included in the auction are :
中医.在线IDN
信用卡.在线IDN
八卦.在线IDN
学校.在线IDN
快递.在线IDN
中医.中文网IDN
信用卡.中文网IDN
快递.中文网IDN
书籍.在线IDN
作品.在线IDN
Check out Sedo.com to see the entire inventory and place your bids.
Coordination Center for TLD RU/.РФ : IDN Domain Names Here to Stay
The second day of the ENOG 7 meeting was about New Features of New gTLDs. The discussion was moderated by the head of the Coordination Center for TLD RU./.РФ’s service, Olga Alexandrova-Myasina.
You can read the press release after the jump :
“The second day of the ENOG 7 meeting started with a panel discussion titled New Features of New gTLDs. IDN Acceptance and IDN mail, bringing together representatives of IDN domain registrars, search engines and email developers. The discussion was moderated by Olga Alexandrova-Myasina, the head of the Coordination Center for TLD .RU/.РФ’s press service.
In her opening remarks, Ms Alexandrova-Myasina highlighted the development of the .РФ domain, which is currently the largest IDN domain with over 800,000 registered domain names. Despite this success, the .РФ domain zone faces a number of serious challenges that are relevant for all 67 existing IDN domains. According to earlier reports, ICANN received some 2,000 registration applications for new domain zones in 2012. “The main challenges to using IDN domains to their full potential are the lack of support by some popular applications, the absence of a full-fledged email service and faulty integration with search engines,” Ms Alexandrova-Myasina said.
RU-CENTER Group’s Vasily Dolmatov gave a presentation on IDN email. He said that IDN email is expected to be created in the summer of 2014 since many challenges that prevented it from happening to this day have been addressed. That said, a number of issues such as domain name encoding within browsers or email clients can’t be addressed without input from software developers, and not all of them are ready or willing to cooperate. “We hope that as IDN domains become increasingly popular on the back of the program to promote TLD domains, software developers will be eager to join these processes,” Mr. Dolmatov said. “Their input is critical, and the example of registrars of Arabic domains is there to prove it.”
The Yandex search engine was represented by Tigran Khudaverdyan, who pointed to the fact that some 30% of Internet users view new TLDs as being dangerous and unnecessary and are afraid of phishing attacks. It is for this reason that Yandex wants its users to focus on the content offered by websites and not the domains such websites use.
Irina Danelia from the Smart Internet Foundation said that any product needs to be user-friendly in order to succeed. “The user perspective on the new domain will depend to a large extent on what he or she sees in the address bar — whether the domain name is displayed correctly or cluttered with misconverted characters,” Ms Daniela said. “There are general guidelines for all developers, such as using an external TLD list provided, for example, by IANA, rather than an internal list.”
Fyodor Smirnov from Rusnames also contributed to the discussion: “The creation of a full-fledged email service and the acceptance of a new Cyrillic domain by the World Wide Web is very important for the new .РУС TLD. Unfortunately, almost all major portals that are crucial to the promotion of IDN domains are guided by the interests of their users, who have little interest in IDN domains. That said, many portals are joining in, which is inspiring,” Mr Smirnov said, adding that the market could see a consolidation in the TLD registrar segment in the near future, while addressing the existing challenges would be much easier for domains using Latin characters. Representative of the .МОСКВА domain Alexander Sherbakov called on IDN domain registrars to join efforts in influencing search engines and software developers.
The panel’s participants came to the conclusion that as IDN domains become increasingly popular, the market will have to take them into account despite all the challenges and the lack of trust in their potential.”
ICANN Registrar Contact Information Database (RADAR) Password Reset
ICANN has taken its registrar contact information database (RADAR) offline temporarily. This action was taken as a precautionary measure after it was learned that an unauthorized party viewed data in the system. ICANN has found no evidence of any unauthorized changes to the data in the system. Although the vulnerability has been corrected, RADAR will remain offline until a thorough review of the system is completed.
ICANN ‘s logs indicate that the data that was accessed in this incident included usernames, email addresses, and hashed passwords. While no actual unencrypted passwords were taken, it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to reverse a hashed password, particularly a simple or common one. ICANN has uncovered no evidence that any RADAR accounts were accessed using compromised credentials. All RADAR login credentials have been reset and registrar end-users have been notified.
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This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-05-28-en
ICANN: DNS Risk Assessment (1st Iteration) for Public Consultation
In November 2013 at ICANN 48 in Buenos Aires, the ICANN Board adopted the ICANN DNS Risk Management Framework (“Framework”) and in February 2014 a group of selected ICANN staff undertook an initial (limited scope) DNS risk assessment using the Framework.
The initial DNS risk assessment was intended to serve as a pilot, given the evolutionary nature of the Internet and ICANN ‘s multi-stakeholder model.
The results of this assessment can be found here [PDF, 432 KB] in the form of a consultation paper for the community. In addition, an accompanying risk categorization reflecting the risks initially identified can be found within the ‘resilience model’ within this link [PDF, 312 KB].
In ICANN 50 in London, ICANN intends on holding a session with the community to discuss the consultation paper, the questions posed in that paper and the initial risks identified.
It is intended to use the consultation feedback to make further refinements to the assessment process. Future risk assessments are expected to actively involve the community and include the development of risk remediation strategies and plans
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-05-28-en.
A video is also available explaining the consultation and issues.
Over 3,000 .WIKI Domain Names Registered After One Day of General Availability
.WIKI went into general availability yesterday, May 27,2014. After its first day of general availability , over 3,000 .wiki domain names were registered.
At the time of writing this article, there are 3,717 .WIKI domain names registered and is number 60 on the list of new gTLDs with the most domain name registrations.
Today, other seven new gTLDs entered general availability :
.Cruises
.Villas
.Flights
.Rentals
.Vacations
.Ninja
.Immobillien
.Club is still the gTLD with the most domain name registrations – 60,443. .Guru is now the second with 59,476 registrations and .Berlin third with 48,163 registrations.Following is .Photography with 36,666 , .xn--3ds443g (在线) with 31,594 , .Link with 31,566, .Email with 31,162 and .Today with 25,417.
