ICANN
Coverage of ICANN in the Nexus archive.
- Malayali elected to policy council of ICANN
Ajith Francis was elected unopposed to the 21-member policy council of ICANN, a body often called the 'Parliament of ICANN'.
- GoDaddy Corporate Domains chief: The next Internet land rush is happening right now
ICANN is accepting applications until August 12 for companies to control branded internet suffixes like '.google' or '.amazon'. This follows a 2012 round and highlights the growing importance of dotBrand domains as AI, synthetic content, and automated interactions reshape online identity verification.
- It's always DNS: Denic says sorry for crashing Germany's internet
Denic, the registry for Germany's .de top-level domain, resolved a DNS blunder that crashed Germany's internet on Tuesday evening. The issue was related to Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and faulty DNSSEC signatures. Hundreds of thousands of domains were affected, including major websites such as Amazon and eBay.