Tag Archives: gac

Thu 16th October 2014
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Governments import in on village and two-letter domain names - ICANN GAC concerned about community priority evaluations but not two-letter domain names. The Governmental Advisory Committee to ICANN has issued its GAC Communique (pdf) from this week’s meeting in Los Angeles. There are a couple notable items on it related to new top level domain names. First, the GAC noted apparent inconsistencies with recent Community Priority Evaluations and asked ICANN to consider an appeal process. Based on the language, it appears governments ... read more ...
Thu 16th May 2013
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What they’re observant about a GAC’s guarantee advice - Is the GAC right? It depends on who you ask. The ICANN New gTLD Board Committee request for comment on the GAC’s safeguard advice has closed, and the reply period will open soon. Here are some select comments, along with links to the full comments. “Instead of Guidebook advice, the GAC has offered public policy advice and expects the whole New gTLD program to be halted until such advice is considered and adopted.” -Jonathon Nevett, Donuts Inc “The GAC is proposing ... read more ...
Mon 30th March 2009
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Threatdown: GAC Wants Second Level Place Names Protected - Another reason you need to pay attention to the new top level domain process at ICANN. I think it’s time to start a “Threatdown” for domain owners, a la Stephen Colbert. The threats to domain name owners in the new top level domain process at ICANN are far scarier than Colbert’s perennial threat: bears. Today’s threat is the protection of city and other place names at the second level. We’re not talking about top level domains such as .nyc. We’re ... read more ...
Wed 22nd October 2008
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ICANN Releases Four Updates for New gTLDs - ICANN releases draft “Explanatory Memoranda Papers” for review. Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today published four draft papers about the introduction of new global top level domains (gTLD). (For a primer on these new TLDs, see New Top Level Domain Names: Challenges and Opportunities.) The papers cover: 1. Resolving “string contention” when more the one entity applies for similar TLDs 2. Proposed process for geographic TLD ... read more ...