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Article 29: Reduce the storing period of Google Street View's imagesAlex Turk, the head of EU Article 29 Working Party (WP) sent a letter on 11 February 2010 asking Google company to warn people about the arrival of its Street View vehicles and to reduce the retention... ЕДРИ | 15.3.2010 |
Internet restrictions curtail human rights, says USMany governments have used the internet to curtail freedom of expression at home, the US state department says in its latest annual human rights report. Свет | 12.3.2010 |
World Day Against Cyber CensorshipReporters Without Borders will celebrate World Day Against Cyber Censorship on 12 March. This event is intended to rally everyone in support of a single Internet that is unrestricted and accessible to... Свет | 10.3.2010 |
China to punish hackers, says no Google complaintChina has pledged to punish hackers who attacked Google if there is evidence to prove it, but said it has yet to receive any complaint from the world's top search engine. Свет | 8.3.2010 |
France's Parliament pursues its goal to censor the InternetOn 16 February, the National Assembly, the lower house of the French Parliament, passed the first draft of the so-called Loppsi 2 bill allowing the authorities to control the Internet under the pretex... ЕДРИ | 5.3.2010 |
Germany's President signs an Internet bill against his own governmentDespite the fact that the German Government had decided not to apply the internet censorship law (Zugangserschwerungsgesetz) proposed by the former Government in April 2009, the new bill was signed on... ЕДРИ | 3.3.2010 |
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| Biggest Expansion to Internet in Forty Years Approved for Implementation |
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Paris, France: The Board of ICANN today approved a
recommendation that could see a whole range of new names introduced to
the Internet's addressing system.
"The Board today accepted a recommendation from its global stakeholders that it is possible to implement many new names to the Internet, paving the way for an expansion of domain name choice and opportunity" said Dr Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN. A final version of the implementation plan must be approved by the ICANN Board before the new process is launched. It is intended that the final version will be published in early 2009. "The potential here is huge. It represents a whole new way for people to express themselves on the Net," said Dr Twomey. "It's a massive increase in the 'real estate' of the Internet." Presently, users have a limited range of 21 top level domains to choose from — names that we are all familiar with like .com, .org, .info. This proposal allows applicants for new names to self-select their domain name so that choices are most appropriate for their customers or potentially the most marketable. It is expected that applicants will apply for targeted community strings such as (the existing) .travel for the travel industry and .cat for the Catalan community (as well as generic strings like .brandname or .yournamehere). There are already interested consortiums wanting to establish city-based top level domain, like .nyc (for New York City), .berlin and .paris. "One of the most exciting prospect before us is that the expanding system is also being planned to support extensions in the languages of the world," said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN's Chairman. "This is going to be very important for the future of the Internet in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia." The present system only supports 37 Roman characters. Upon approval of the implementation plan, it is planned that applications for new names will be available in the second quarter of 2009. Source: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) |