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Neustar Labs Innovation Center Grand Opening (Video)

In March, Neustar announced the opening of the Neustar Labs Innovation Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Friends of Neustar at Illinois have prepared the following video from the grand opening day. more

ICANN Board Approves Renewal of .COM Registry Agreement

The U.S. Department of Commerce (the Department) will now undertake a review of the renewal of the .com registry agreement under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement between the Department and Verisign. more

Afilias Launches Managed Registry Services

Afilias Managed Registry Services offer a complete domain management solution designed to free brands and companies from day-to-day domain administration and policy issues so they can instead focus on their core business. more

Afilias Selected As Registry Operator for .Post

Established in 1874, the UPU is headquartered in Berne (Switzerland) and is the second oldest international organization worldwide with 192 member countries. As a United Nations specialized agency, the UPU is the primary forum for cooperation between postal industry players globally. more

ARI Completes TAS Latency Report

Following the announcement of the details regarding Digital Archery, ARI Registry Services (ARI) commenced an investigation to determine whether the described method offered an equitable opportunity for all applicants. more

Afilias Bringing Hundreds of New Top-Level Domains to the Internet

Afilias Limited, the operator of the .INFO, .MOBI and .PRO top level domains (TLD) and a leading provider of registry technical services, today announced that its technology will support 305 new generic TLD applications to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). more

Neustar Selected as Registry Services Provider for 358 Top-Level Domain Applications

Neustar today announced that it has been selected as the registry services provider for 358 applications for new generic Top-Level domains (gTLDs). Additionally, Neustar has been selected by the City of New York as the registry service provider to manage the application process and operate .nyc. more

ARI Registry Asks ICANN to Delay Digital Archery and Batching Processes

ARI Registry has submitted a letter to ICANN today requesting its Board and staff to delay the launch of the digital archery batching mechanism and review of the new gTLD program for further review. "Batching was included in ICANN’s thinking because there were an unknown number of applications for new gTLDs... We suggest that, given the data that is publically available, these two objectives can be met without batching and without a significant or unreasonable impact on timelines." more

PIR Files Applications to Create and Manage .NGO and .ONG Domains

PIR applied for the creation and management of the new top-level domains (TLDs) as part of ICANN's global Internet expansion initiative which would go into effect as early as 2013. more

PIR Aims to Broaden International Reach With Creation of Cyrillic, Chinese and Devanagari TLDs

As part of its application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), PIR submitted for the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that translate "organization," "org" or "structured organization" into Devanagari, Cyrillic and Chinese-simplified scripts. more

Afilias Becomes First European Company to Gain Observer Status With the Global Network Initiative

The GNI is a multi-stakeholder initiative comprised of companies and other stakeholders in the global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry that are committed to protecting and advancing online freedom of expression and privacy. more

New Top-Level Domain Applications Close Today - ARI Registry Services to Support 161 TLDs

ARI Registry Services can today confirm it has signed contracts to provide back-end domain name registry services for 161 new Top-Level Domains (TLD) as part of ICANN's global program to expand the Internet's address system. more