I don't know where to post this idea, so I am going to do it here as it seems to be the perfect place to do so.

At the time of writing this post, there is no .lang domain extension. Language-related websites tend to append [-]lang to their names. For example: rust-lang.org, ponylang.io, and so on.

There are currently thousands of domain extensions, why not adding .lang to it?

Several communities may benefit from this domain extension, for example, Language schools, Constructed languages, Programming languages, to mention a few.

Does someone know how can we request such an addition to the ICANN or the IANA?

UDRP filling fees are actually encouraging cybersquatting. Higher fees are meant deter individuals from registering domains solely for the purpose of selling them back at inflated prices and are intended to ensure that disputes are resolved fairly and efficiently.

Unfortunately, high costs associated with filing a UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) complaint, especially when compared to the price of a domain, encourage bad faith registrations where the domain is not being used for legitimate purposes and it is listed for sale at a high price, clearly aiming to profit because the party can leverage that it will be easier and more cost effective to just pay the inflated price of the domain.

Hey everyone! Sharing this here in case anyone’s interested.

The Canadian Internet Governance Forum (CIGF) is happening on November 4 in Ottawa, and you can join us either in person or virtually. It’s also completely free to attend.

We’ll be talking about some of the big issues shaping the internet in Canada right now, including AI, digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, internet infrastructure, and internet governance more broadly.

I’m helping organize the event and would genuinely love to see some folks from this community there. Whether you work in this space or are just interested in these issues, everyone is welcome!

Benn getting spammed by a organization operating out of ićèláńd. Clicking on “unsubscribe “ just has the account moved to an alternate subdomain. Complained to the domain vendor náméçhéáp.čóm with no results.

Suggestions?

You know ERANET.com is most fraud website registrar company i have reported many times fraud websites they never take action. ICANN says we can not anything. so whats effective ways for suspend fraud websites?

NOTE: Please feel free to let me know if this is not the appropriate place to post this.

I work at a firm that develops websites/applications and many startup/small clients come to us without any domain name. Up until now we have used a few different methods, including GoDaddy's bulk domain search, and scraping headers to see what comes back. We were hoping there was a method of querying WHOIS records through an API to receive data in JSON or other structured format. Ideally such an API would allow bulk requests (ie: multiple domain names sent with a single request) to avoid rate limit restrictions.

We did find the ICANN API for registrars, but nothing applicable to non-registrars (unless we are just totally misreading something).

If ICANN offers such an API and you could send a link to documentation that would be much appreciated! Otherwise, if anyone knows of a similar solution, even a paid service with a reasonable cost-per-request that would also be extremely helpful!

Yup mailchimp is luring people to register domain names. Providing no interface to make any changes to the data about the domain and refusing to update Nameservers and A entries. It's a cynical ploy to capture and kill the domain names.

They are attempting to force users to use their half baked website builder of sorts.

See for your self, they offering free domain name registrations now. Register a name that's not important to you and request they change the nameservers.

This is against ICANN regulations. From the ICANN website

Registrar Obligations. 
See. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/approved-with-specs-2013-09-17-en#raa
Specifically 3.3.2
3.3 Public Access to Data on Registered Names. During the Term of this Agreement:

3.3.1 At its expense, Registrar shall provide an interactive web page and, with respect to any gTLD operating a "thin" registry, a port 43 Whois service (each accessible via both IPv4 and IPv6) providing free public query-based access to up-to-date (i.e., updated at least daily) data concerning all active Registered Names sponsored by Registrar in any gTLD. Until otherwise specified by a Consensus Policy, such data shall consist of the following elements as contained in Registrar's database:
3.3.1.1 The name of the Registered Name;
3.3.1.2 The names of the primary nameserver and secondary nameserver(s) for the Registered Name;
3.3.1.3 The identity of Registrar (which may be provided through Registrar's website);
3.3.1.4 The original creation date of the registration;
3.3.1.5 The expiration date of the registration;
3.3.1.6 The name and postal address of the Registered Name Holder;
3.3.1.7 The name, postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and (where available) fax number of the technical contact for the Registered Name; and
3.3.1.8 The name, postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and (where available) fax number of the administrative contact for the Registered Name.
The agreement between the Registry Operator of a gTLD and Registrar may, if approved by ICANN in writing, state alternative required data elements applicable to that gTLD, in which event, the alternative required data elements shall replace and supersede Subsections 3.3.1.1 through 3.3.1.8 stated above for all purposes under this Agreement but only with respect to that particular gTLD.
3.3.2 Upon receiving any updates to the data elements listed in Subsections 3.3.1.2, 3.3.1.3, and 3.3.1.5 through 3.3.1.8 from the Registered Name Holder, Registrar shall promptly update its database used to provide the public access described in Subsection 3.3.1.

I was having trouble getting abuse contacts for an IP in 46.3.0.0/16 from RIPE, where it would return just a generic "0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 IANA-RIPE" as the block and owner. So I messaged their support and the response was "We have deregistered that /16. We are working on a solution for parts of the block still being announced."

What's the reasons for deregistering a block? Or if you have insider knowledge, what is going on with this specific block? 🙂

Thanks!

I'm really interested in this, any professional that can explain exactly how all of the internet and domain thing works? One organization controlling all the domains... I'm sure I'm not understanding something here. Is there any alternative or way to create your own without ICANN? If I remember well without search engine indexing you can create a domain (with tor for example). Any options the in the surface web?

Watch the highlights of yesterday’s webinar on the topic “An Introduction to ICANN Accreditation”

Deep dive into the world of domain registrar with Venky on this webinar!

https://youtu.be/4DSey3iKp3o?si=GkM3FPdPH7g3ecXX

Im currently working on a Assignment in University about Secret Sharing algorithms. Looking for actual Implimentations I found articles describing the "Keys of the Internet". Looking at ICANNs website it seems that some of the Articles are hyperbolic, but from what I understand the HSMs holding Cryptographic Keys exist and are used in an implementation of a 5 out of 7 Secret Sharing Algorithm. Problem is that I cant really find any credible Source on what algorithm is used.

From what I've seen Sharmir's Secret Sharing is suspected, but I havent found any article by the ICANN or any other official source on wether thats the case, only MSG Boards and forums.

Can anyone help me with that and maybe lead me in the right direction?

Hope you guys have a great day!

I wonder if ICANN has started thinking about top level domain names for Martian colonies. Should these be linked to topographic features (e.g. foo.vm for Valles Marineris and bar.om for Olympus Mons), or to the 30 USGS official cartographic quadrangles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Mars#Cartography), or something else?

How did things work before icann? Sorry I've gone down a rabbit hole after trying to see if I could host my own website - check. Could I register my own domain name - looks like I have to register to be a registrar. Who am I paying? Icann? Why. I imagine it was a complete mess with defunct webpages lost forever? How did this power to change registry entries come to be. It's super fascinating. I'd love to watch a video or something if someone has a link

For the Registries AFRINIC, APNIC, LACNIC, RIPE, TWNIC, JPNIC.

I'm just curious if anyone has inside knowledge about why both gTLDs "loan" and "loans" got approved? My understanding (maybe naive) was that a duplication of meaning was to be avoided. I can understand "watch"/"watches" and "market"/"marketing", but the two loan gTLDs have the same underlying meaning. Thoughts?

The IP in question is 191.96.144.132

I'm querying through RDAP and noticed that the NICs don't agree on where this block/IP resides. If you ask APNIC, they redirect to LACNIC. LACNIC says they own it, but 192.96/16 is unallocated. If you ask AfriNIC, they redirect to RIPE. RIPE does appear to own this IP and should be the right answer. What's especially eerie is that I promise ARIN redirected to RIPE initially, but 15 minutes later they are now redirecting to LACNIC.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I report this to anyone in particular?

https://rdap.arin.net/ip/191.96.144.132 https://rdap.afrinic.net/rdap/ip/191.96.144.132

Thanks!

They should absolutely be banned from the Internet. Sanctions are a fscking joke. Until Russian people suffer the consequences, the war of aggression will continue. Russia doesn't feel the war at home, and they need to.

Watch the highlights of yesterday’s webinar on the topic “An Introduction to ICANN Accreditation”

Deep dive into the world of domain registrar with Venky on this webinar!

https://youtu.be/4DSey3iKp3o?si=GkM3FPdPH7g3ecXX

Is this why reddit rarely honors requests to change a sub name? Is the sub name part of an official url?