• .melbourne domain gets ICANN approval

  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has signed off on the creation of a new .melbourne top-level domain, with the new TLD passing ICANN's initial evaluation process.

• ICANN announces opening of Istanbul office as part of globalization effort

  As part of ICANN's efforts to become a more global organization it detailed plans on Thursday for its new office in Istanbul.

• In wake of gTLD security criticism, ICANN announces emergency back-up registry operators

  The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names within a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) will resolve in the event of a failure at a new TLD operator, it said on Tuesday.

• ICANN approves non-Latin 'dot word' domains

  ICANN published evaluation results of the first 27 new global top-level domains.

• ICANN's new CEO pledges to keep the Internet intact and open

  ICANN's new CEO Fadi Chehadé, who took over in October, is on a mission to help politicians around the world understand the importance of keeping the Internet intact and open, and is also working to bring home the addition of new generic top-level domains.

• ICANN approves domain names we can't type

  This is a bad day for the English language, after ICANN approved non-Latin characters for use in Internet domain names. Having invented the Internet--40 years ago yesterday--the U.S. has given away whatever advantage it offers English-speakers.

• .Eu Web addresses can be written in Cyrillic, Greek letters

  The .eu TLD (top-level domain name) for Web sites allows non-ASCII characters in its Web addresses, after it opened up the TLD to addresses written in Cyrillic and Greek letters, the European Commission said Friday.

• Lawmakers: Keep ICANN oversight with US

  Several U.S. lawmakers and an executive with the world's largest domain-name registrar called on the U.S. government to maintain oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) after a major agreement between two expires in September.

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