by George Minardos | May 27, 2019 | DNS, gTLD, ICANN, Uncategorized
The internet reach and penetration across countries started growing exponentially. It is also true that the growth of internet in non-English speaking countries is phenomenal, but the content on the internet is still predominantly available in English followed by...
by George Minardos | Sep 4, 2016 | ICANN, News
IANA Transition of the Domain Name System (DNS): an 18 year journey toward privatization Updated 9/29/16-It’s hard to write something clear and easy to understand on the subject of the IANA Transition. The IANA function is like air, you don’t think about...
by George Minardos | May 9, 2016 | DNS, ICANN, News, Updates
It was pretty big news in the domain world when Google paid 25 Million dollars for dotapp in an ICANN auction last February against 12 other bidders including Amazon. Since then there hasn’t been much news or information on what Google is planning to do with...
by George Minardos | Jan 15, 2016 | DNS, ICANN, Interviews
We need to expand and promote the DNS in a new way This is a Domain Name Association (DNA) Interview with me at ICANN 54 in Dublin. I discuss why we need to innovate on the DNS in order to make the new gTLD program the success we all want it to be. Everyday and with...
by Brian | Sep 11, 2014 | DNS, ICANN
What is a domain name? Most of us use them throughout the day without stopping to think about their importance and how they work. Our interface of entering and searching for companies and information has us relying on words (i.e. domain names) not numbers (i.e. IP...
by Brian | Mar 22, 2014 | ICANN, Updates
The 49th meeting of ICANN will be held in Singapore starting tomorrow March 23rd -Thursday the 27th. http://singapore49.icann.org/en In addition to the business at hand of new registries launching, there will be much discussion around the NTIA’s announcement to...
by Brian | Dec 10, 2013 | ICANN, Updates
One week and counting….On December 2nd .build started pre-delegation testing (PDT) with ICANN. This is one of the last steps before .build becomes added to the internet root. What that means in plain English is soon .build will be a piece of virtual real-estate...
by Brian | Nov 7, 2013 | ICANN
November 7th 2013: .build is proud to announce that it has successfully transitioned from gTLD applicant to an official registry with it’s completion of the signed contract with ICANN to administer the .build namespace. Soon registrants will be able to buy a .build...
by George Minardos | Jul 26, 2013 | ICANN
ICANN posted the latest timeline today that shows the first gTLD’s launching Sept 5th of this year. Based on this information we think that .build will be launching to Trademark holders by the end of this year and available to the general public in Q1 of 2014!...
by Brian | Jul 8, 2013 | ICANN
.build passed ICANN’s initial evaluation process late last week, bringing it one major step closer to launch by the end of 2013 for trademark holders and general availability in the first quarter of 2014.
