The New IANA Contract
On August 22nd, 2006 with 0 comments
It's amazing how light -- and how bad -- the coverage of the new IANA contract...
Section: Main > IANA

US Requests Info From Folks Who'd Like to Be IANA
On February 23rd, 2006 with 10 comments
This is a potentially major development: the US Government has issued a notice...
Section: Main > IANA , USA Goverment Relations

ICANN Still Can't Do an Open and Transparent Job at IANA
On January 26th, 2006 with 17 comments
Speaking of Bret Fausett, he has a very nice catch over at his blog today,Over...
Section: Main > IANA , Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs)

DoC will put IANA functions up for competitive bid
On November 8th, 2005 with 26 comments
Meredith Attewell, NTIA Senior Advisor and Acting Associate Director for...
Section: Main > IANA , ICANN Does Good

Changes to IANA Contract
On November 8th, 2005 with 2 comments
Danny Younger on the GA list, notes the following: A new "Process for IANA Root...
Section: Main > IANA , Watchdogs

ICANN silently refused .UA redelegation request?
On October 14th, 2005 with 0 comments
Squirrell writes "After the pause, caused by presidential elections and "Orange...
Section: Main > Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) , IANA

IANA posts the IQ redelegation report
On August 15th, 2005 with 6 comments
Anonymous writes "IANA posts the IQ redelegation...
Section: Main > IANA

"We're Moving Backwards" on ICANN Transparency
On August 4th, 2005 with 105 comments
Bret Fausett at Lextext, notes in .IQ Redelegated And No One Knows Why that...
Section: Main > IANA , Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs)

Global poker game for the internet goes on
On May 3rd, 2005 with 15 comments
Fergie writes "Kieren McCarthy writes in The Register that: A new front...
Section: Main > IANA , Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs)

.eu (Reportedly) Gets Final ICANN Approval
On March 23rd, 2005 with 8 comments
ICANN rubber-stamps .eu domain name says the Inquirer. Of course what I want...
Section: Main > .eu and Europe too , IANA

Paying for the IANA Function
On February 12th, 2005 with 0 comments
Danny Younger, on the GA list: The Contract Between ICANN and the United States...
Section: Main > IANA , Watchdogs

IAB Reprimands IANA operation
On October 13th, 2004 with 11 comments
Anonymous writes "The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published an...
Section: Main > IANA

.ly Mess: The Wages of Obsessive Secrecy
On April 16th, 2004 with 9 comments
In Dr Hosni Tayeb and the case of the disappearing Internet, The Register's...
Section: Main > Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) , IANA

New ccTLD? ISO-3166-1 adds AX "ÅLAND ISLANDS
On April 1st, 2004 with 3 comments
Anonymous writes "So it looks like the ÅLAND ISLANDS got added to the...
Section: Main > IANA , Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs)

Behind the Scenes of the .ht Redelegation
On January 25th, 2004 with 10 comments
sbruno writes "As one of the principal actors of the .ht redelegation from the...
Section: Main > Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) , IANA

The Register Explains the .ng Controversy
On January 19th, 2004 with 1 comments
The Register has what looks like the straight dope on the .ng controversy. Not...
Section: Main > Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) , IANA

IANA Redelegates .ht (No Advance Warning, As Usual)
On January 13th, 2004 with 1 comments
IANA Report on Redelegation of the .ht Top-Level Domain". All the parties...
Section: Main > IANA , Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs)

.nu Swept Away?
On January 12th, 2004 with 14 comments
Spotted at Slashdot:"The world's first free national wireless grid is no longer...
Section: Main > Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) , IANA

Doug Barton Dons IANA Hat
On November 12th, 2003 with 4 comments
dmehus writes "ICANN announced recently that Doug Barton would be joining the...
Section: Main > IANA , ICANN Staff and Structure

CENTR announces ICANN support fund
On October 21st, 2003 with 0 comments
Anonymous writes "Some European ccTLDs have created a fund that seeks to pay...
Section: Main > IANA

.iq Is Part of the Spoils
On April 10th, 2003 with 7 comments
With the war in Iraq seemingly in its endgame, speculation is rising as to the...
Section: Main > IANA

Commerce to Re-Award IANA to ICANN Without Considering Alternatives
On March 18th, 2003 with 4 comments
According to a notice (quoted below) from John S. Quarterman of MIDS fame, the...
Section: Main > IANA

CENTR follows through on IANA
On February 13th, 2003 with 0 comments
CENTR, the Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries, announced...
Section: Main > IANA

IANA ccTLD Newsletter Reawakens
On February 11th, 2003 with 0 comments
The last IANA "ccTLD News Memo", number six, came out on Oct. 27, 2001. All of...
Section: Main > IANA

ims Would Like to Bid to Run IANA
On February 10th, 2003 with 4 comments
The Internet Multicasting Service (Carl Malamud, Chairman), the people who...
Section: Main > IANA

ccTLDs Interested in Running IANA
On February 8th, 2003 with 0 comments
As previously noted, the Department of Commerce issued an obscure notice...
Section: Main > IANA

Bring on the IANA Competitors
On February 3rd, 2003 with 4 comments
ICANN's power rests on three contracts that it has with the US government: the...
Section: Main > IANA