ICANNWiki:Article of the Week 2016

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January

Week 1

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NamesCon is an annual event that brings together companies, representatives, and individuals in the Domain Name industry, especially Registries and Registrars. Attendees also include professional and aspiring domain developers, portfolio investors, private equity/venture capitalists, and brand marketing managers.

NamesCon 2016 will take place January 10-13, 2016 at the Tropicana Las Vegas. It begins as CES concludes, and the Affiliate Summit West conference takes place during an overlapping 3 days of NamesCon. Attendance and audience diversity is therefore expected to be magnified in 2016, and conference producers intend to welcome more than 1,000 attendees.

Week 2

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WHOIS is a TCP-based query/response protocol which is widely used for querying a database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet.

Whois (pronounced as the phrase Who is) represents a protocol that is mainly used to find details and information about domain names, networks and hosts. The Whois records contain data referring to various organizations and contacts related to the domain names. The Whois protocols operate by means of a server where anyone is allowed to connect and create a query; the Whois server will then respond to this query and end the connection.

Week 3

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The Domain Name Association (The DNA) is a non-profit global business association that represents the interests of the domain name industry. Its members are groups, businesses, and individuals involved in the provision, support, and sale of domain names. This includes such organisations as domain name registries, registrars, resellers, and registry service providers.

The Domain Name Association aims to play a key role in helping consumers, business, public-benefit organisations, and others understand the benefits and take advantage of the upcoming expansion of the Internet name space.

Week 4

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ICANNWiki is a grassroots, community effort to create and curate articles describing the people and organizations, terms and topics within the ICANN community. We actively seek worldwide collaboration to increase understanding of how policy is created for the continued development of the Internet, a tool which we all use everyday. In particular, we focus on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and related international policy and management bodies.

The Wiki-Editing Tutorial guide will help you learn the ins and outs of ICANNWiki. Specifically, it will teach you how to add and edit ICANNWiki articles, as well as how to:

  • Navigate the wiki. - ICW and its MediaWiki software platform are user-friendly, but require an understanding of the mark-up language and mechanics behind article creation.
  • Prepare before you edit. - ICW is driven by its thoroughly researched content that relies on wiki-based ethos to guide its tone, clarity and validity.
  • Understand the foundations of wiki culture and markup.

February

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