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The countryless domain Even though ICANN delegated the .ps country-code to the Occupied Palestinian Territories almost a year ago, unrest in the Middle East has unfortunately delayed the implementation of a Palestinian domain registry. However, the dot-ps administrator is hoping that the top-level domain will be up and running within the next month. It is expected that initial registrations will only be available to Palestinian entities for the first few months. After that the restrictions will hopefully be removed and anyone will be able to register a dot-ps, regardless of their location. Dot-cx operational delay After reporting a few weeks ago that CITC, the first accredited registrar for the Christmas Island top-level domain, was about to become operational, we can now confirm that .cx and per.cx (for individuals) are now available. Please contact corporate-services@netnames.com for more information, or you can place an order directly from our website at www.netnames.co.uk.
Seoul, domain capital of the world Korean capital, Seoul, has for the second consecutive year, retained its number one position as the city with the highest number of domain names. Seoul was followed by London, Istanbul, Madrid, Tokyo, Toronto and Paris. US cities were exempt from the survey, carried out by US-based Network Solutions Inc.
ICANN Meeting ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) – the organisation that administers the domain name system, has issued an open invitation to ‘any interested person’ to its next round of meetings. The meetings, which take place from March 10-13, will be held in Melbourne, Australia. If you’re interested in attending, please visit www.icannmelb.maddocks.com.au for further information. U.S. House panel to hold new hearing on domains The House Commerce Committee has announced that it will hold a hearing next month on the process used by the Internet’s governing body to come up with a new generation of web site addresses. ICANN, set up by the U.S. Government in 1998 to oversee the Internet’s domain name system has recently come under fire and the Committee wants to ensure that the process of choosing new domain suffixes is fair and successfully sparks competition. QVC gets tough on domains U.S. home shopping channel, QVC, this week tried getting tough on an individual it believed to be cybersquattering, who registered a domain name supposedly belonging to the company. The company sent out a letter via their lawyer to an individual who owns the www.n7qvc.com domain. Whilst the domain includes the words ‘QVC’, the company didn’t realise that the name is registered to a Tony Peterson, a keen radio ham whose call sign is n7qvc. As soon as QVC realised this, it retracted its threat of legal action, realising that any arbitration process would most likely rule in Tony’s favour. Sex.com up for grabs – if you’ve $85 million spare German Internet platform, domshop.de is auctioning off the sex.com domain for an incredible $85 million – a new record. Up until now, the most expensive domain sold was business.com, which went for a ‘meagre’ $7.5 million. As yet, despite massive interest in the name, none of the submitted bids have been high enough. American Stanford University graduate, Gary Kremen, is set to be a multi-millionaire when the sale finally takes place.
Top 25 web properties of December 2000
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