Tag Archives: ICANN

Sun 18th November 2012
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CNET: Russian Continuing To Push To Take Over Control Of Domain Naming System From ICANN - According to a story published in Cnet.com last night, according to ” documents leaked on Friday from an upcoming treaty conference, the Russian Federation is calling on the United Nations to take over key aspects of Internet governance, including addressing and naming. “The Russians made their proposal on November 13 in the lead-up to December’s World Conference on International Communications in Dubai.” “The conference will consider revisions to the International Telecommunications Regulations ... read more ...
Sat 17th November 2012
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ICANN CEO: Until a initial new gTLD is Delegated, Akram Attalah & we Will Personally Oversee a Whole New gTLD Program - According to a blog post by the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé, he and Akram Attalah will “personally oversee the whole new gTLD program until the 1st new gTLD is delegated. This comes only days after Kurt Pritz who was heading up the new gTLD program resigned from ICANN due to a still undisclosed conflict of interest. The rest of the blog post was on his meeting he had this past week on the Trademark Clearinghouse and its associated rights protection mechanisms. Its clear from the post that the both ... read more ...
Fri 16th November 2012
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Guest Post: Clarifying Clarifying Financial Questions: What New gTLD Applicants Need To Do To Pass Evaluation - This is a guest post by Phil Buckingham, CEO Dot Advice Ltd. Mr Buckingham was involved at the start of the DNS in the UK in 1995, as CFO of Netnames, the pioneering corporate domain portfolio registrar. Mr Buckingham  was involved in the Financial Evaluation process, served on ICANN’s GNSO Vertical Integration WG. Dot Advice Ltd provides applicant advice and develops fully integrated gTLD financial models, utilising the new vertical integrated market and SRSU brand models. Here is the post: It ... read more ...
Thu 15th November 2012
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ICANN Needs To Come Clean On Kurt Pritz, The Conflict Of Interest & Be Transparent As Promised - In announcing that Kurt Pritz resigned  from ICANN today due to a “recently identified conflict of interest”  ICANN didn’t specify what the conflict was. Apparently Kevin Murphy of Domainincite.com,  reached out to Mr. Pritz who declined to comment and referred him back to ICANN. This is not acceptable. Kurt Pritz was not just ICANN’s Chief Strategy Officer, but for years has been the point man for the new gTLD program. He is one of the highest paid employees of ICANN. ICANN has collected ... read more ...
 
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Uh-oh: Pritz out during ICANN over dispute of interest - The face of ICANN’s new TLD program abruptly resigns. Kurt Pritz was the face of ICANN’s new top level domain program. Literally. It was Pritz who defended ICANN on Capitol Hill. It was Pritz who spoke to the press and at conferences. Now he’s gone. In a shocking announcement this morning, new ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé announced that he had accepted Pritz’ resignation. Here’s the full announcement: To the ICANN Community, Regretfully, I have accepted the resignation ... read more ...
Mon 12th November 2012
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MyICANN is a large step brazen for clarity during ICANN - System notifies users about new content on ICANN.org. ICANN launched a beta of MyICANN during last month’s meeting in Toronto. The site, hosted at MyICANN.org, provides notifications about new documents published to ICANN’s web site. It sounds simple and it is. It also only alerts you to documents that have been published, and these same documents have always been published to the site. Despite this, I believe MyICANN is a huge boost for transparency at ICANN. Even ... read more ...
Sun 28th October 2012
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ICANN Pays Over $1.5 Million For Director’s Travel & Compensation - ICANN released today the list of compensation and travel expense paid to or on behalf of Directors of ICANN for the fiscal year ending June 2012. “This table represents reimbursements and compensation paid directly to Board Members, payments made to third party vendors such as hotels, restaurants, and travel agencies on behalf of Board Members as well as a total of the three amounts.” Interestingly you will see quite a different amount paid for certain Directors ranging from $0 to well ... read more ...
Sat 27th October 2012
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Registrars Come Out Against Additional Rights Protections Policy Changes For New gTLD’s - In a letter sent by the Registrar Stakeholder Group to ICANN, today, the group has come out against making any additional changes to the Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) for trademark holders in the new gTLD’s. The letter was sent by the Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group Matt Serlin who wrote in part: “”We also understand various parties are advocating for the inclusion of additional Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPMs), in excess of what is currently in the Guidebook. We are extremely ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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Lawsuits opposite ICANN and new TLDs start to hurl in - Two prior TLD applicants sue over specific top level domains. As plans for a 2013 rollout of new top level domains marches forward, two companies have sued ICANN to stop it from issuing certain top level domain names. Both lawsuits come courtesy of companies that applied in the “proof of concept” round back in 2000. Earlier this week DomainIncite reported about a suit filed by Name.Space against ICANN. Name.space runs an alternative root with 482 top level domains. ... read more ...
 
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RAA traffic updates and how it affects domainers - Get ready for whois verification. Maybe. Huge changes might be coming to the way you register a domain name, and domain investors need to pay attention. Negotiations for a new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), the agreement between registrars and ICANN, are ongoing. Meetings are taking place at ICANN’s meeting in Toronto this week. I’ve talked to multiple people close to the negotiations, including James Bladel, Senior Director, ICANN Policy and Planning ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2012
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GNSO IP Constituency Sends Letter To ICANN WIth Changes Of Right Protections For New gTLD’s - ICANN just posted a letter sent from the President of the GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency to ICANN of it’s “Consensus Position of Business Constituency and Intellectual Property Constituency” for changes for the new gTLD program   Extend Sunrise Launch Period from 30 to 60 days with a standardized process. Extend the TMCH and Claims Notices for an indefinite period; ensure the process is easy to use, secure, and stable. Complete the URS as a low cost alternative and ... read more ...
Mon 15th October 2012
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ICANN On New gTLD’s: “No Contracts Will be Executed or Delegations Made Before a Beijing Meeting” - At the ICANN Meeting today Kurt Pritz who is in charge of the new gTLD program laid out a timeline for the new gTLD program. “In December, we’re going to hold this prioritization drawing. This drawing will prioritize the applications, meaning it will be the order in which applications are released and then processed through the rest of the evaluation. So the ability to choose the form agreement as your form of contract, to select an appointment and to go through predelegation testing and then, ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Launches MyICANN.ORG Beta - In the opening ceremony at the ICANN conference the new CEO of ICANN, FadiI Chehade announced that ICANN just Launched MyICANN.org Here is what Mr. Chehade has to say about the new site: “ICANN.org will continue to be a great vehicle for communications, for publication, for education. anyone new coming to learn what is ICANN, that’s what ICANN.org is. But what we were missing is an area for stakeholder engagement, an area where people can come and get their work done. So I’m happy to announce ... read more ...
Sat 13th October 2012
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United TLD Asks ICANN To Remove Lawfirm’s Comment On Donuts New gTLD Application - A letter sent to ICANN by United TLD asks ICANN to remove comments posted by the law firm of McCarter English against the new gTLD applications of Donuts, Inc. I’m not sure what interest United TLD has that is asking for the comment to be removed but ICANN has in fact removed a least one comment, but so far only upon request of the commentator, more on that below but here is the letter that was filed by United: ICANN Dear Messrs. Atallah, Pritz and Jeffrey: I am writing to respond to a letter ... read more ...
Thu 11th October 2012
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ICANN To Hold Lottery To Get New gTLD’s To Market Sooner: Draw To Occur Dec 4-15; Objection Period Extended To Mar 13th - If you have been following the new gTLD process then you know that ICANN has been trying to figure out a “fair” way to determine which new gTLD applications would be processed and how new gTLD’s would be delegated. We noted back in August that ICANN which couldn’t define a method for the order in which it would process the applications, they would have the same problem when figuring out how to roll the new gTLD’s. ICANN rejected the idea of a random draw, then went the idea of a batching, ... read more ...
Sat 29th September 2012
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ANA Warns Commerce Department About “Top-Level Domain Tsunami” - According to marketingvox.com, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) urged the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to work within the Internet stakeholder processes of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to advocate for a “Do Not Sell registry” at the upcoming ICANN Board meeting next month in Toronto. The letter went on to note that “it would be a disaster for its competitors if L’Oreal snapped up generic domains like .hair, .makeup, and .beauty; but that ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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EU organisation calls due Whois changes “unlawful” - EU data protection group says law enforcement’s wish list would be unlawful in European Union. In May I wrote about some of the requests law enforcement agencies were making for the new ICANN registrar accreditation agreement. Some of the requests included verifying phone numbers, annual whois updates, and retaining IP addresses. Now the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has chimed in, stating that these requirements are likely unlawful in the European Union. In ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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Over 3K Comments Posted Today & 11,000 Overall As Today Is The Last Day To Comment On New gTLD Program - The ICANN comment section for the new gTLD program has logged over 3,000 comments today and now totals over 11,000 comments We are trying to keep up with the more important and interesting comments posted by groups, company’s and individual’s from all over the world on the new gTLD program. Many organizations seem to be weighing in at the last moment including the, The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), The American Hospital Association, Company’s ... read more ...
 
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The American Hospital Association Files Objection to New gTLD .Health - “Since 1898, the AHA has worked to advance the health of individuals and communities, and to lead, represent and serve hospitals, health systems and other related organizations that are accountable to the public and committed to the improvement of our health care system. ” “The AHA is an established and respected leader of the health care community, and the AHA’s members are clearly intended to be the users of the applied-for .health gTLD.” “For the reasons below, the AHA believes that ... read more ...
 
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eBay Loves Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry Trademark Rights Protection Mechanisms For New gTLD’s & Hates TLDH - eBay filed several comments this afternoon with ICANN in support of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry applications for new gTLD’s. While praising Uniregistry eBay bashes Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) policy. In its comments praised Uniregistry’s trademark rights protection mechanisms contained in their application. eBay writes: “”eBay Inc. supports Uniregistry’s proposed trademark rights protection mechanisms, including a 60-day Sunrise period during which a trademark owner can obtain ... read more ...
 
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Manwin Owner of YouPorn.com Files Comment To ICANN Objecting To ICM’s Application for .Sex, .Porn & .Adult - Manwin owner of YouPorn.com just filed a comment with ICANN Objecting To ICM’s Application to operate the new gTLD’s  .Sex, .Porn .Adult. ICM is the operator of the .XXX TLD. Like the FSC yesterday,  Manwin objected just to the applications filed by ICM not the application to operate .Sex filed by Internet Marketing Solutions Limited. In its comment, Manwin Licensing International S.à.r.l. writes they own and license trademarks and domain names used for many popular adult websites, including ... read more ...
 
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American Medical Colleges Files Comments In Objection To a New gTLD .Health, .Medical, .Hospital .Doctor, .Healthcare & More - The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) “a nonprofit association representing all 138 accredited US and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems; and 90 academic and scientific societies” filed an objection today with ICANN against the application for the new gTLD .Health, .Medical, .Hospital, .Healthcare., .Doctor, .College, .Degree, .School, .Education and .University The comments letters are all the same except that the new ... read more ...
 
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ARI Registry Services Publishes A White Paper Calling An Alternative Model To Trademark Clearing House - ARI Registry Services, working in consultation with Neustar, Verisign and Demand Media , published today three white papers that outline concerns with ICANN’s current Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) proposal and “provide an alternative model that addresses those concerns whilst meeting all the requirements outlined in the Applicant Guidebook and those further stipulated by ICANN”. The proposed ICANN model can be found at the following link” In the cover sheet on the white papers the author ... read more ...
Mon 24th September 2012
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Only 2 More Days To Comment To ICANN On The New gTLD Program - September 26th is the last day to file a comment on the new gTLD program, any of the applicants or strings. As of publication there are almost 8,000 posted comments. If you would like to comment you will need to create a user account with ICANN which you can do here. You can view all the submitted comments here.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Publishes Schedule For ICANN 45 Toronto Meeting - ICANN has just published the full schedule for its Meeting in Toronto and as usual its jammed packed with sessions and meetings many going on at the same time in different rooms. If you have never gone to an ICANN meeting and live in North America this is going to be your last chance for a while as the next two meetings in 2013 are already set for China and South Africa. The conference is being held on October 14-18th and starts the weekend right after TRAFFIC ends, and yes I will be heading to both ... read more ...