From Lesley Cowley, chief executive at Nominet

Welcome to the October edition of Nominet News. A lot has happened in the Internet industry since the last issue, including a new agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the US Department of Commerce. As ever, this puts Internet Governance at the forefront of our minds, especially as the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) fast approaches. More ›

The end of September saw the start of open registration for .mobi, mobile phone-specific website addresses. The promise of the .mobi domain name is to deliver better, more streamlined Internet content to mobile devices through content optimisation. More ›