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ICANN and the US Government Signed Historic Agreement

ICANN and the U.S. Department of Commerce concluded historic Affirmation agreement supporting model of international multi-stakeholder and bottom-up governance of the global Internet addressing system. The EU Commission welcomed the news, while CADNA stated that the agreement is falling short.

Under the Affirmation agreement, the U.S. will remain committed to participation in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which is one of the bodies that advises the corporation in its crucial mission of assuring that one human being can contact another anywhere on the planet.

The agreement also mandates that ICANN’s accountability to the Internet community must be reviewed at least every 3 years by a committee.

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The Number of Domain Names Reached 184 m., the Growth Rate is Diminishing

The total number of domain names is continuing to grow, but the rate of growth is diminishing, according to the second quarter 2009 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc.

The second quarter of 2009 ended with a total base of 184 million domain name registrations across all of the Top Level Domains (TLDs). This represents a one percent increase over the first quarter of 2009 and growth of nine percent over the same quarter of last year.

During the second quarter, Country Code TLDs (ccTLDs) rose by 14 percent year over year to 74.4 million domain names -- a total that represents a one percent rise from the first quarter of 2009. The base of ccTLDs domain names was impacted by a loss in base for .cn and .eu. In terms of total registrations, .com remains the most popular TLD category, followed by .cn (China), .de (Germany) and .net. This mix remains unchanged from last quarter.

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Study Finds How to Avoid the Risks of a Virtualization

CA and VMware announced the results of a study investigating the impact of data centers virtualization. The study identifies specific procedures and controls that should be considered to reduce risk as organizations virtualize business-critical systems and when production virtualization objectives beyond server consolidation evolve to high availability, disaster recovery, and dynamic resource management scenarios.

• 72% of study participants are aggressively virtualizing production servers. Of those, 58% had at one point paused adoption to improve operating procedures, and 64% are now comfortable virtualizing business critical systems.
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Eighth Idea Cafe Grant Campaign Enters Semi-Final Phase

Idea Cafe's editorial team has selected the semi-finalists for the Eighth Idea Cafe Small Business Grant. 40 Grant Applicants impressed us with their inventive business vision and their intent to leverage their business and personal talents to help others.

In contrast to the previous grants, where the team at Idea Cafe had to choose the finalists out of the list of all semi-finalists, this time the five finalists will be decided by the votes of Idea Cafe visitors. Those five of the semi-finalists who receive the highest numbers of your votes will make it to the final round and eventually compete for the cash prize.

Vote now, because YOUR vote will determine which entrepreneurs most deserve to be amongst the finalists. But before that, learn more about our semi-finalists' business ideas and entrepreneurial approaches.

The voting page is located at http://www.businessownersideacafe.com/small_business_grants/grant_vote.php . Free Idea Cafe registration is required in order to cast a vote. Voting closes on November, 1st.

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