[ALAC-Announce] ICANN Newsletter -- 25 July 2014

[ICANN At-Large Staff]

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ICANN Weekly Newsletter

News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

http://www.icann.org/Week ending 25 July 2014



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Announcements This Week

China's 21Vianet Contributes to Stable and Resilient Internet with L-Root Instance | Introduction on Instance Helps Mitigate Network Outages, Delivers Improved Internet Experience<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-24-en>
A new instance of L-Root has been installed in China, increasing the Domain Name System's (DNS) overall fault tolerance and its resilience against certain types of cyber threats, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
24 July 2014

Introduction of Two-Character Domain Names for .LUXURY, .WANG, XN--3BST00M, XN--6QQ986B3XL, XN--CZRU2D, XN--45Q11C, .BUILD, .REN, .PIZZA, .RESTAURANT, .GIFTS, .SARL, XN--55QX5D, XN--IO0A7I, and 20 TLDs associated with Top Level Domain Holdings Limited<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-23-en>
Seven (7) Registry Services Evaluation Process (RSEP) requests were submitted by the registry operators to allow the introduction of two-character domain names for the below TLDs.
23 July 2014

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Upcoming Events

12-16 October 2014: 51st International Public ICANN Meeting - Los Angeles<http://la51.icann.org/en/>


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