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The Arabic Script IDN Working Group in Jordan

Alexa Raad - Thu, Apr 9th, 2009

I had probably one of the most amazing and productive trips last week. I was in Amman, Jordan to attend the 4th Arabic Script IDN Working Group meeting along with over 20 colleagues from the region. The "Arabic Script in Internationalized Domain Names - Working Group" (ASIWG) is an autonomous and self organized group formed by regional and global Internet key players interested in the integration of the Arabic script in Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).

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A United Front to Stop Cybercrime

Alexa Raad - Thu, Feb 12th, 2009

As part of .ORG’s ongoing pursuit for and commitment to a more secure global Internet, we have teamed up with Microsoft Corporation as well as fellow technology and academic leaders, including ICANN, NeuStar, VeriSign, CNNIC, Afilias, Global Domains International Inc., M1D Global, AOL, Symantec, F-Secure, ISC, researchers from Georgia Tech, the Shadowserver Foundation, Arbor Networks and Support Intelligence. Together we are working to implement a unified and global response to the Conficker (also known as Downadup) worm.

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2008: .ORG's Year in Review

Alexa Raad - Tue, Jan 6th, 2009

As 2008 closes, we at the .ORG registry took note of some of the major events and news that shaped our industry and fueled our discussions.  This made for a very historic year and bears the seeds of future changes for the domain name industry.

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Being Vigilant on Internet Security

Alexa Raad - Mon, Dec 8th, 2008

If you happened to go to our website on Sunday, December 7, from approximately 8pm – 11pm EST (UTC 01:00 - 04:00, 8 December), chances are you did not reach it.

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.ORG and Eco organize a workshop in Frankfurt

Alexa Raad - Thu, Oct 16th, 2008

Last week, I was in Frankfurt along with a few of my team to participate in a jointly organized workshop, titled: “From Groundbreaking to Mainstream” with Eco Forum .

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ICANN’s response to our concerns and next steps?

Alexa Raad - Fri, Sep 5th, 2008

For all of you following the issue we raised originally to ICANN leadership: As a quick recap, we are concerned that IDNs and their process of implementation should be directed in a way to allow for multi-lingual navigation of the Internet and not used as a tool to control access, impose censorship or limit freedom of expression online.

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The Internet as a democratic utility

Alexa Raad - Thu, Aug 28th, 2008

In the wake of our recent news that .ORG has officially registered 7 million domains, some comments made to CNN by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark this week really resonated with me. The article, entitled “Internet Can Strengthen Democracy” discusses many of the same issues we have found to be the driving forces behind .ORG’s consistent year-over-year growth – community building, interaction, and inclusivity.

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”Did we miss ICANN’s reply?”

Alexa Raad - Thu, Aug 21st, 2008

On July 29, the NCUC and PIR sent out a joint letter to ICANN asking it to consider the interests of the end-users as core to its policies in IDN implementation. The letter was received on August 6. The text of the letter is on ICANN's website.

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.ORGs are becoming more and more valuable

Alexa Raad - Thu, Aug 7th, 2008

According to DN Journal, .ORG had another great week for domain name sales.

“This was a strong week for .org as that extension took five of the first ten openings on the GC chart and 8 of 20 overall, nipping .net's seven”

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.ORG & NCUC Joint Letter to ICANN on Internationalized Domain Names

Alexa Raad - Wed, Aug 6th, 2008

Recently we teamed up with the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to express our concern to ICANN that the rights and needs of end-users are taken into account in the discussion of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).

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