Blogs

The World Turned Upside Down

Kathy Kleiman - Fri, Mar 19th, 2010

It's fortunate that as my first blog, I should have the occasion to comment on a rather eventful ICANN meeting, namely the 37th ICANN meeting in Nairobi.

This was a meeting that almost did not happen, and when it did it produced some remarkable decisions from the ICANN Board of Directors. Although the discussions prior to the ICANN meeting have been oft repeated, the undercurrent of the meeting was a new one: the ICANN Community seems to like the direction ICANN is heading in offering new top level domains (gTLDs), but not the emerging details of who and how companies will be applying for these domain.

Say… When Are YOU Planning for DNSSEC Deployment?

Alexa Raad - Mon, Mar 15th, 2010

Late last week, PIR publicly announced full DNSSEC deployment for .ORG. Namely, we will begin accepting second level signed .ORG zones beginning in June of this year. The 90-day notification was just sent out by our Technical Support Team to alert Registrars to the lead-time. Our announcement garnered press attention because it was yet another sign that DNSSEC is inevitable. “WHEN?” you ask. The time to plan for DNSSEC is now. It’s difficult to ignore that DNSSEC is nearing widespread adoption.

Introducing Fully Internationalized Domain Names

Lance Wolak - Thu, Mar 11th, 2010

ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, is on a path to introduce new top level domains. At .ORG, The Public Interest Registry, we are considering this an opportunity to introduce fully internationalized domain names (IDN), bringing our long-standing best practices of managing the .ORG registry to advance the use of the Internet across the globe. A fully internationalized domain name would have the name and the .extension entirely in a specific language script. Why are we considering this? The answer is in our public interest motivation.

ENISA Publishes Best Practices Guide on Deploying DNSSEC

Lauren Price - Fri, Mar 5th, 2010

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) just published a best practice guide on deploying DNSSEC. This document was authored by a dream team of DNSSEC experts from organizations including ENISA, .SE, AUTH-NOC, Kirei, IKS-JENA, NLnet Labs, and Cisco. This best practices guide addresses DNSSEC policies, procedures and operational considerations from the perspective of information security managers. A must read!

Poker.org Sold for a Record $1 Million

Lauren Price - Tue, Feb 23rd, 2010

The sale of poker.org for $1M has been keeping the domain channels busy since news broke last week. This sale marks the highest .ORG secondary market sale to date. The million dollar sale is quite a jump from the next highest .org sales reported by Sedo -- engineering.org sold for $198,000, followed by sexe.org for $151,400 and date.org for $151,000. The community is abuzz declaring this sale as a “Game Changer” for the .ORG extension in the secon

PIR Welcomes Kathy Kleiman as Director of Policy

Alexa Raad - Mon, Feb 22nd, 2010

I am thrilled to welcome Kathy Kleiman, to our team and introduce her to the community as PIR’s Director of Policy.

.ORG Experiences Resilient Growth in 2009

Thuy LeDinh - Fri, Feb 19th, 2010

According to our second bi-annual “Dashboard” report, .ORG experienced resilient growth despite the economic impact of 2009 with the number of new .ORG domain registrations rising by a healthy 14 percent. What’s more is that the domain grew by 8.4 percent over 2008, reinforcing the strength and value of the world’s third largest gTLD.

Building A Community For Toyota Owners During The Recall

Thuy LeDinh - Mon, Feb 1st, 2010

The headlines for Toyota in recent weeks have not been good. The recall of 11 models to repair sudden acceleration, including a ban on the sale of eight models, has put Toyota at an estimated $500 million in lost revenue per week. The timing of this couldn’t be worse, as Toyota is faced with what could be their second straight annual loss when the final numbers are in for 2009.
The financial hit aside, Toyota is clearly in the midst of a public information challenge.

ICANN And Cybersecurity- Hot Topics At The First Ever .ORG Forum

Thuy LeDinh - Sat, Jan 30th, 2010

The numbers say it all: In 2009, there were 148,000 zombie computers (spammers, botnets, etc.) created per day, over 2.6 million known malicious code threats at the start of 2009, and by the end of the year, nearly 1 million new ones were created. In other words, to quote the illustrious Stewart Baker: “[The security threat] is worse than we even thought.”

2009: What Did We Really Learn?

Alexa Raad - Tue, Jan 19th, 2010

The beginning of every year is a time for introspection, an appraisal of the year that was, and planning for the year to come. It is also a time to follow tradition and to recap the biggest news of the year. But by now, I am guessing that we have all read our fair share about the people and events who have impacted the last 12 months. But as we examine the “whats” of 2009 (i.e. what happened, who was involved, and what resulted) , we should set our focuses forward by learning from yesterday and planning for tomorrow.