- The Department of Commerce, ICANN, and VeriSign reached an agreement to extend VeriSign’s contract to manage the .com domain. This is good news for e-commerce. More here.
- Introducing non-English characters in website domain names before the system is ready could "break the whole internet", warns ICANN chief executive Paul Twomey.
- Forbes’ Janet Novack asks, The Last Tax-Free Christmas Online? ,with a great overview of SST history and status.