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A subsidiary of the company that operates the .au domain is in the box seat to operate the proposed .sydney, .melbourne and .victoria domains.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) claims that its system for accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has got through its first week of operation without a hitch.

ICANN says that applications for new generic top level domain names (gTLD) will open on schedule on 12 January.

Australian registry Cloud Registry is set to operate at least one of the new top level domains, and hopes to get more of the action.

LogicBoxes now powers 6 Million Domain Names on its proprietary platform - OrderBox.

Rod Beckstrom, CEO and president of ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has called on the world community to speak up in defence of "the multi-stakeholder model that has served as the 'catalyst for the Internet," and which ICANN embodies.
 

Planning to apply for a top-level domain? There's something you should read first.

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Hailing its own decision to launch new top-level domains as the ushering in of a new Internet age, the number of possible web addresses in any language is likely set to explode, as personalised domains seem destined to become the eventual norm.

ICANN has approved a plan that may herald a massive expansion of the number of generic top level domains.

The ICANN board has gone against the advice of its government advisory committee and approved a proposal for a .xxx domain.

The United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) has bowed to pressure from the Internet community and agreed to include non-government members in a working group set up to review Internet governance.

Global Internet bodies are incensed by a United Nations review of Internet governance that will be conducted solely by government representatives. They are urging people to sign a petition calling for a more widely representative review

The ICANN board meeting in December is poised to make one of the most sweeping changes in the Internet's history, expanding the range of generic top level domains (.com, .net, etc.) to almost any string of letters and numbers, apart from a few exceptions.

Chris Disspain, CEO of auDA, has been elected unopposed to the ICANN board.

The Global Internet Society is trying to galvanise Internet users worldwide into becoming active defenders of the Internet as an open and transparent platform for communication and innovation.

Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says all Internet stakeholders must strive to keep Internet governance out of the hands of intergovernmental organisations.

ICM, the organisation that has been battling for six years to get a .xxx top level domain names accepted by ICANN is one step closer to achieving its goal: a draft proposal, its fourth, has been issued by ICANN for public comment.

The proposal for a .XXX global top-level domain is back on the agenda following the deliberations of an ICANN review panel.