Archive for the "Domain Names" Category
The Big Reveal – ICANN Announces List of new gTLD applicants and applications
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) posted the list of new gTLD applicants and applications today. ICANN received a total of 1,930 new gTLD applications. Many companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Wal-Mart filed applications. Among the Canadian applicants are Rogers (for .FIDO and .CHATR), Shaw Cablesystems (for Shaw) and [...]
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CIRA Announces .CA Registry Upgrade and 24 hour service outage
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) announced that it will be performing a system update to its .CA registry on June 12, 2012. In order to complete the upgrade, there will be a 24 hour service outage from 9 a.m. (ET) on June 12 to 9:00 a.m. (ET) on June 13. During the service outage, [...]
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The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has released the results of its first consultation on its proposed implementation of .CA domains with French accent characters (known as the Latin Supplement -1 Unicode characters), such as é à ü and ç. Under its initial implementation plan, CIRA proposed a sunrise period during which owners of .CA domain owners could register as [...]
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