The North American 2012 IPv6 Summit supported by the Colorado ISOC

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The Colorado ISOC is sponsoring the North American 2012 IPv6 Summit. The conference will be held April 9-11, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Denver Colorado. IPv6 networking professionals from all over the world will be attending. This will be the largest IPv6 conference in North America in 2012.

Successful World IPv6 Day Demonstrates Global Readiness for IPv6

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Top websites serving billions of users demonstrate progress towards largest transition in Internet’s history Top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, and Limelight Networks, joined t…

Jeff Moss Goes to Moscow

18 May 2012

ICANN’s vice president and CSO, Jeff Moss, visited Moscow for the 3rd Russian Internet Governance Forum. He was the keynote speaker at the Russian IGF, but the local organizers, the Russian Coordination Center for the .ru ccTLD decided to use him even more, and invited Jeff also to join a panel discussion on DDoS attacks, [...]

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National Physical Laboratory of the UK Selected to Conduct a gTLD Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study

30 April 2012

I am delighted to report that ICANN has engaged the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the United Kingdom to conduct a study of Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse. Guided by Richard Clayton, NPL has established a collaborative study team of domain specialists from three universities. Together, this team will examine the extent to which gTLD [...]

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ICANN to Convene North America Regional Registry/Registrar Event

11 April 2012

On 17-18 May 2012, ICANN and its gTLD registration services providers will meet in Los Angeles, USA. These regional events are a chance for ICANN staff and representatives from gTLD registries and ICANN-accredited registrars to meet informally to discuss topics important to our industry and business relationships. These events happen regularly and in different locations [...]

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More Number Scarcity

2 April 2012

Last year ICANN allocated the last five IPv4 blocks to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Since then we have seen a concerted effort on the part of network and content providers to make sure they support IPv6, so they’ll be ready for the next few billion Internet users. But there’s another Internet number resource which [...]

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Meet LACTLD: Coordinating Internet Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

22 March 2012

(Oscar Robles, LACTLD Chair) Last week at my first ICANN meeting as regional Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, I was proud that all my ICANN colleagues converged on Costa Rica and were able to see for themselves why I love the Latin American and Caribbean region. Besides the friendly people, great food, [...]

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Ten Million DNS Resolvers on the Internet

22 March 2012

Resolvers are servers on the Internet which use the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol [TXT, 120 KB] to retrieve information from authoritative servers and return answers to end-user applications. They’re often found in enterprise and ISP networks, and there are a number of public resolver services provided by people like Google and OpenDNS. It’s also [...]

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ICANN and LACNIC Agree to Enhance DNS Reliability in Latin America, Caribbean

15 March 2012

As Latin American Internet users look on, Raul Echeberria (left), Executive Director of LACNIC, and Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO of ICANN, sign mutual agreements at ICANN 43 in Costa Rica. San Jose, Costa Rica – At the ICANN 43 meeting ongoing this week, the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) and the [...]

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ICANN Hosts Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative Workshop

15 March 2012

Offers to Assist in Securing DNS 14 March — ICANN welcomed members of the Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative (CCI) Steering Group to Costa Rica as part of its efforts to improve the security, stability and resiliency of the global Domain Name System (DNS). The meeting offered Steering Group members the opportunity to explain the purpose of [...]

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L-Root in your Pocket

13 March 2012

OK, so not quite in your pocket. But near your pocket. ICANN operates L-Root, one of the 13 Domain Name System root servers which together make up the infrastructure known as the Root Server System. The Root Servers serve the root zone of the DNS, maintained by ICANN staff in the IANA department. The Root [...]

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Thought Paper on Domain Seizures and Takedowns

8 March 2012

Recent legal actions (Rustock, Coreflood and Kelihos, among others) resulting in disrupting or dismantling major criminal networks have involved seizures of domain names, DNS name server reconfiguration and transfers of domain name registrations as part of the takedown actions. This thought paper [PDF, 449 KB] offers guidance for anyone who prepares an order that seeks [...]

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