Turkey Abandons ICANN
On July 3rd, 2005 with 14 comments
John Palmer writes "A Top Level Domain (TLD) system has been launched in Turkey...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

China announces 3 new TLDs
On April 27th, 2005 with 12 comments
ukryule writes "It seems the Chinese government has announced 3 new top level...
Section: Main > Multi-lingual Domain Names , Alternate Roots

new.net changes hands, sort of
On September 20th, 2004 with 3 comments
fnord writes "New.net, an alternate root of sorts that hasn't had much press in...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Where Did the .root TLD Come From?
On March 8th, 2004 with 26 comments
Karl Auerbach's Cavebear Blog asks a question I'd like to know the answer to:...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots , Root Servers

The Revolution Arrives from Spain
On January 7th, 2003 with 9 comments
meneos writes "The revolution arrives from Spain. A Spanish company designs a...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Early Autumn? Pre-ICANN .BIZ dumped by one alt root
On September 15th, 2002 with 33 comments
isquat writes "It seems that the non-ICANN .BIZ TLD, run by Leah Gallagos of...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Apples and Hand Grenades...
On July 30th, 2002 with 3 comments
peterd writes "I've long suspected that when the DNS debate flares up, as it...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

New alternate root scam? The Mobile TLD
On June 10th, 2002 with 14 comments
Undecided writes "A new useless alternate root appeared on the scene last week....
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

RealNames plays Unreal
On May 11th, 2002 with 17 comments
According to Newsbytes, RealNames, the first major contender to provide an...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

New.net Name Expirations
On April 27th, 2002 with 23 comments
Anonymous writes "New.net was supposed to make available non-renewed names to...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

New.net in financial trouble?
On April 8th, 2002 with 47 comments
Undecided writes "It's strictly a rumor at this point, but FuckedCompany.com is...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

GSM-providers launch .gprs TLD
On April 5th, 2002 with 1 comments
Hendrik writes "A Dutch article (translated below) released today in Planet...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Did Neustar Try to Shaft Competing Roots?
On March 27th, 2002 with 20 comments
Marc Schneiders and Simon Higgs of the Open Root Server Confederation (ORSC)...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

FTC Shuts Down .USA
On March 11th, 2002 with 19 comments
grumpy writes "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has obtained an injunction in...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Greenpeace Wants Its Own Root
On March 8th, 2002 with 12 comments
The rhetoric is quite a bit more purple than we're used to even in the DNS...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

And Now For Something Completely Different
On January 28th, 2002 with 2 comments
The administrator of the .g*d and .satan TLDs has written a most peculiar...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Reconsideration committee rejects our request to pull ICP-3
On January 24th, 2002 with 2 comments
On Friday, ICANN's reconsideration committee rejected the request that...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Bugtoaster Calls New.net Plugin Defective
On November 18th, 2001 with 35 comments
Bugtoaster.com, a site that offers a nifty utility for logging and, sometimes,...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Another Alternative Root TLD .USA slated to bilk the Unskilled Masses
On November 7th, 2001 with 16 comments
Anonymous writes "Here's an interesting money making scheme... There is a...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

RealNames marches on
On October 10th, 2001 with 8 comments
RealNames announced today that it had signed a deal with Verisign under which...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

The new.net tortoise plods along
On October 4th, 2001 with 9 comments
fnord writes "New.net issues another of what seem to be a measured series of...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

More on XTNS
On September 26th, 2001 with 17 comments
Anonymous writes "Since XTNS has become such a hot topic, I think it is...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

The PSO speaks on alternate roots
On September 12th, 2001 with 1 comments
This past July, the Protocol Council decided to generate a statement on the...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

New.net and BulkRegister.com teaming up
On September 7th, 2001 with 3 comments
Anonymous writes "From the "coopetition" [or 'can't lick 'em, join 'em'?) file:...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

A Tale of Two Policies: Competing Roots in ICANN and in ENUM
On September 3rd, 2001 with 5 comments
mueller writes "On August 22, a US State Department-led working group released...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

New Kid on the Block: XTNS
On August 15th, 2001 with 43 comments
fnord writes "It has Realnames, MicroSoft, multilingual names, is pre-checked...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

Reconsideration request: ICANN's "Authoritative Root" paper
On August 8th, 2001 with 7 comments
Michael Froomkin and I asked ICANN today to reconsider its adoption of Stuart...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

YANNA, Yet another new.net announcement
On August 8th, 2001 with 72 comments
fnord writes "New.net introduces more meaningful web addresses for Spanish,...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

New.net demands that ICANN retract statements
On July 26th, 2001 with 29 comments
Buckshot6 writes "New.net's lawyers at Latham & Watkins have written a...
Section: Main > Alternate Roots

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