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The thriving city of London is truly a potpourri and melting pot of people and culture, and things look set to move forward in the right direction all the more in 2014 as London prides itself in being the first city in the world to offer its very own domain name from next year onward. This means businesses, individuals as well as organizations would be in the running for the application of web addresses that come with the .london suffix. I do wonder whether there will be folks who will perform some sort of cyber squatting on the more popular domain names.

All of this is made possible as London was awarded with the right to its own top level domain (TLD) name by ICANN, which happens to be an organization which is based in the US that oversees the internet. Among the numerous businesses (said to number in the tens of thousands) which have already expressed an interest would be Selfridges and Carnaby Street. London mayor Boris Johnson said, “Adopting the .london suffix will enable organisations to more closely associate themselves with our great city’s powerful global brand. This is also an excellent opportunity to expand London’s digital presence, which in turn is set to generate funds to invest back into the city.”

London To Receive Own Domain Name Next Year original content from Ubergizmo.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is currently busy deciding the future of the internet in Durban, South Africa, this week. First on its list: non-English generic top level domains.

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It’s well known that Google’s competitors aren’t keen on it getting hold of the .search top-level domain. But the company has outlined a new plan which would make use of the string as a dotless domain—open for use by any other search company, too. More »

In many ways, VeriSign has been one of the internet’s true arbiters. It’s ICANN’s official registry operator for .com domains, which lets it determine how (and how much) we pay to get a particularly coveted address. As we’re learning, the US Department of Commerce is only comfortable with that state of affairs to a certain point. It just approved a deal renewal that will let VeriSign watch over .com between December 1st this year and November 30th, 2018, but it’s requiring that the company drop a previous right to hike registration prices as many as four times, at up to 7 percent, over the length of the term. The current $7.85 price will last unless VeriSign either faces exceptional circumstances or can prove that the market is healthy enough to lift the ceiling. We’re sure the business isn’t happy when the DOC move dictates how much money it can make, but compulsive domain hunters will enjoy the extra dollars in their pockets.

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According to domain registrar Go Daddy, things are back to normal after yesterday’s massive outage. The company noted that service outages started at around 1PM ET, with service being “fully restored” by 7PM. Contrary to claims of an attack from hackers, the company’s interim CEO Scott Wagner insists that the outage “was not a ‘hack’ and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS).” Instead, Go Daddy is chalking the problem up to “a series of internal network events that corrupted router data tables,” adding that the company has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the problem. According to Wagner, data was never at risk during yesterday’s issue.

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