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ICANN
Nominet Wants a Bulk Lane for Welsh Domains. The Return Ticket Is Missing
A proposed `.cymru` and `.wales` service would give registrants 15 days' notice before a portfolio handover, then offer no grace period to reverse it.
Leaders
Lars-Johan Liman's RIPE Ballot Took 21 Years to Turn
In 2005, a man already minding I-root could not win a RIPE NCC board seat. The membership elected him in 2026. The two ballots make a better portrait of Internet authority than any parade of job titles.
Leaders
Ondřej Filip Put DNSSEC on the Menu. Two Registrars Made It the Default.
The Czech registry had a security feature and a public plan. Then two registrars changed a routine customer setting, and the count of protected .cz domains took the lift instead of the stairs.
ICANN
94 of 97 Votes Backed ccPDP4. ICANN Cut Its Risk Panel
A 2024 member vote backed ccPDP4 by 94 to 3. Two years later, ICANN’s Board approved most of the policy and removed the one route that let a proposed internationalized country-code domain answer an uppercase-only similarity finding with a risk plan. The small exception carries…
Leaders
Anand Buddhdev Turned Off a 32-Year-Old DNS Favour
The RIPE NCC once lent big address holders a spare nameserver. The favour outlived its fairness and, eventually, its good engineering. Buddhdev helped make the case for ending it.
ICANN
Helsinki is retiring its dot. Nobody asked for a new keeper
The city wants to close its namesake top-level domain. ICANN has decided against finding a successor, after a public comment window drew no responses.
History
A Fake Website Needed a Real Reservation: RFC 2606
The documentation said to visit a pretend address. Then someone copied the example into a program. June 1999's RFC 2606 treated that ordinary editorial accident as a naming problem: give experiments and examples their own reserved places before a fictional destination meets a…
ICANN
ICANN maps appeals for local-script domains. The review desk is still being built
The Board has approved an IDN country-code rulebook that points certain disputes toward a dedicated review route. That route still needs implementation and a Bylaws decision.
ICANN
Australia opens a domain-name tip line. The tip sheets stay in the drawer
With more than 1,600 new internet suffix applications on the table, Canberra wants the public to flag trouble before it decides which names deserve a government warning.
ICANN
ICANN approved the IDN rulebook. Uppercase lookalikes lost their special hearing
The Board kept the new country-code policy moving and struck out one proposed escape hatch for names that collide only when written in capitals.
ICANN
ICANN adopts the IDN country-code plan but closes one risk-appraisal route
An applicant whose proposed country-code domain resembles another name only when capitalised has lost a proposed way to argue for an exception. ICANN’s Board approved the broader IDN ccTLD policy, then withheld that narrow escape route over security concerns.
ICANN
A 20–0 GNSO vote sends the diacritics plan to ICANN’s Board
A registry operator considering an accented counterpart to an ASCII suffix now knows where the GNSO stands. It still cannot treat the proposed exception as an operative rule: the Board has a separate decision to make.
Leaders
Edward Lewis and the DNSKEY Flag That Could Not Create Trust
The Secure Entry Point bit gives DNSSEC operators and some signing tools a compact way to record intended key use. Its value depends on a strict limit: it can guide handling, but it cannot make a key authentic or change what a validating resolver must prove.
History
A Brand Name Became an Inbox: Josh Quittner’s McDonald's Domain Experiment, 1993–94
Josh Quittner turned a domain-name assignment into a question readers could answer. He recalled registering `mcdonalds.com`, inviting readers to tell him what to do with it, and hearing from people in several countries. A story about the Internet had become a conversation carried…
Story
A warning signal is a queue, not a verdict
APNIC’s post-roll account follows 50 networks that looked poorly prepared before the DNS root-key change. Their measured acceptance later moved above a majority threshold. That trajectory shows why readiness signals need a clock, a follow-up path and a precise definition of what…
History
The .si Domain Preceded ARNES: A New Namespace Before Its Registry, 1992
Slovenia’s country-code domain entered IANA’s root-zone record on 1 April 1992. The public institution that would administer it was established weeks later, and the first reported migration of names came near year’s end.
Leaders
The seat and the decision: what Lito Ibarra's record can and cannot prove
El Salvador's country-code domain was run by a man whom the record credits with a pricing decision that determined who could afford to be on the web at all. Four governing boards he later sat on published decisions of their own. Only the first layer leaves a judgement attached to…
CASE FILE
Dyn kept resolving. No instrument gave resolution a duty.
A shared naming provider absorbed botnet traffic in October 2016 and has lived in the record ever since as an outage story. The documents that followed are stranger than the story: a federal warning about the devices that launched the traffic, then a statute about the federal…
History
Tunisia’s .tn Domain Went to a Research Institute Before ATI, 1991–96
The .tn namespace entered the global DNS through a research institute in 1991; five years later, its stewardship moved to a new national Internet agency as Tunisia’s backbone operations were being reorganized. These were linked institutional changes, but domain delegation…
Leaders
Ray Bellis and the Line Between a Published Document and a Running Network
Two documents carry Ray Bellis's name in the IETF record. One is a single-author advice note that spends its mandatory language telling implementers what not to break. The other creates shared state, takes numbers in a public registry and bears six signatures. Read side by side…