Category Archives: ICANN

Anything Related to the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Country Code People

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Joe Alagna

As I begin my new job at Afilias I am looking forward to helping promote country-code Top Level Domain names (ccTLDs).  Over 18 years I have enjoyed working with the diverse communities that make up this group of people (in … Continue reading →

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Domain News and Views

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Joe Alagna

Verisign Releases Domain Name Industry Brief 2016 ended with just under 330M domain name registrations across all top level domains (TLDs). That’s about a 2.3 million name increase over the previous quarter. Domains grew at a rate of 6.8 percent … Continue reading →

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The Real Story on “The Internet Give-away”

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Joe Alagna

The story of the Internet becoming a bit more independent is not a bad one. The United States isn’t really losing anything here. I’ll try to explain and will post a press release that  the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names … Continue reading →

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Pledges to Protect a Free and Open Internet

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Joe Alagna

I got to see Secretary Pritzker’s speech and I liked what I heard.  I know there are other free countries in the world but ICANN has always listened as best they could.  There are countries that are limiting Internet access … Continue reading →

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