Tag Archives: icann board

Fri 25th June 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Get IDN Country Code Top Level Domain Names - Asian language top level domains coming to the internet. The Board of ICANN has approved the delegation of two Chinese-character country code top level domain names to China, two to Taiwan, and one to Hong Kong. During ICANN’s board meeting today in Brussels, ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom called it a historic moment: Just one brief remark and that is to say this is a truly historic moment. More than one out of five people who walk on this planet speak Chinese as ... read more ...
Tue 20th April 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
ICANN Board to Review UDRP Provider Relationship on Thursday - “And an actual contract?” That raises a very sticky problem with WIPO. WIPO is a treaty organization which is ordinarily immune from most legal actions. Signing a contract would necessarily expose them to suit under that contract, and that is not going to happen. Of course there is no ICANN requirement that WIPO be a UDRP provider either. Under ordinary principles of governance, we do not usually vest the policy making and adjudication functions in the same body (and certainly ... read more ...