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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is breaking free form US Department of Commerce. Since 1998, ICANN had a Memorandum of Understanding with the US Government, but now has signed an “Affirmation of Commitments” which breaks ICANN free. Previously, ICANN was only answerable to the Department of Commerce, but now it is more internationally-balanced. It has its own Government Advisory Committee which will manage ICANN. Now ICANN will have to send reports to reviewers selected by its own Advisory Committee and to international governments, besides the Department of Commerce.

ICANN was criticized for delays in intentional domain name arrivals and slow to adapt measures useful to adapt browsing in other countries. But now with the new affirmation, those are expected to be overcome.

One big change brought by this is domain names in international languages. By next year, top-level domains in international languages will be available. So you could get your domain in Chinese or Russian.

More on ICANN Accouncements.

And after the whole RIP drama, tr.im is back up! tr.im has been my favorite URL shortner, but not any more. I do not trust them, they can close down anytime (maybe next week) and come back up next month. Or even add Advertisements to URL redirects. So, you may not be sure how long your URL is going to be good. I do not trust them. I am using TinyURL at the moment.

Anyways, this was just for the information.

Happy trimming!

Twitter tremendously increased the number of URL shortening services with tr.im being very famous and preferred by many. tr.im had a simple and nice website with a dashboard that gives statistics of each URL trimmed.

The Nambu Network has however decided to shut down tr.im as they wanted to get money out of it by selling the service, or at least a part of tr.im, but no one showed interest in purchasing the service. The next thing was to start charging the users, which was not possible as there are a hundred other similar services that offer free URL shortening. So, to stop the database from expanding and bandwidth from being consumed, The Nambu Network decided to shut down tr.im.

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