Breaking News: Zika Virus forces ICANN56 to relocate

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Following the outbreak of Zika virus in the Latin American region, the leadership of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has cancelled its 56^th public meeting slated for that region until further notice, reports ITRealms.

According to officials of ICANN, the public meeting earlier scheduled in Panama for June 2016, will be moved to another location due to the severity of the Zika Virus outbreak in the Latin America region. 

ITRealms investigations revealed that ICANN is currently undergoing some research to identify an alternate location where the Zika Virus is not a concern. 

“We look forward to returning to Panama for a future ICANN Meeting,” officials told ITRealms.

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ICANN 52: Singapore agog for global Internet stakeholders convention

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The city of Singapore is now wearing a new look as participants for the global internet stakeholders meet converge for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 52 public meeting reports ITRealms.

The four-day meeting, ITRealms reports, would hold between February 9 and 12, 2015 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, near Raffles Hotel, and the adjoining Fairmont Singapore and Swissôtel.

The meeting, ITRealms gathered, will also bring together stakeholders from around the globe to discuss what the future of the Internet may look like in light of last year’s announcement that the United States (U.S.) government will transition stewardship of the IANA functions to the global multistakeholder community.

ITRealms also gathered that former Senior Advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton, Ira Magaziner, and Singapore’s Minister of Communications and Information, Dr. Yaacob bin Ibrahim, will address attendees at the meeting’s opening ceremony in the morning of February 9, 2015. 

In the afternoon, ITRealms further learnt that ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé will join Board Chair Dr. Stephen D. Crocker, Global Domains Division President Akram Atallah and Vice President and Managing Director of Asia Pacific (APAC) Yu-Chuang Kuek at a world press conference in Singapore.

ITRealms equally gathered that top on the agenda at the press meet will be to address a wide range of issues, including the current status of the IANA stewardship transition and the continued delegation of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs).

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ICANN considers 2-character in new gTLD regime

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Echoes from the 51^st public meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which ended in Los Angeles, United States of America last weekend shows that ICANN is considering the introduction of two-character in the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) regime, reports DigitalSENSE Business News.

 It was also gathered by DigitalSENSE Business News that with this development, ICANN officials would develop strategies for the implementation of an efficient technique for the two-character domains, which is expected to be reserved within the new gTLD registry agreement.

DigitalSENSE Business News further gathered that following this anticipation, all two-character ASCII labels would be withheld from registration or allocated to Registry Operators at the second level within a given Top Level Domain (TLD). 

Equally DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII ); which is a character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet, and encodes 128 specified characters into 7-bit binary integers.

ICANN sources disclosed to DigitalSENSE Business News that such labels may not be activated in the Domain Name System (DNS) outside the Registry Operator, provided that such two-character label strings may be released to the extent that Registry Operator reaches agreement with the related government and country-code manager of the string as specified in the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard. 

DigitalSENSE Business News, further gathered that the Registry Operator may also propose the release of these reservations based on its implementation of measures to avoid confusion with the corresponding country codes, subject to approval by ICANN.

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