Tag Archives: ICANN

Mon 12th December 2011
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Want to be ICANN’s subsequent CEO? - Non-profit publishes profile of desired CEO. Want to be the CEO of an organization launching a highly controversial expansion of the internet namespace and seeing its budget double or triple your first year on the job? ICANN has a job for you. Today ICANN announced it has selected search firm Odgers Berndtson of Brussels to help it find a new CEO to replace Rod Beckstrom. ICANN has used the same firm previously. It also published a candidate profile (pdf). Among the ... read more ...
Wed 7th December 2011
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FTC Chairman Comes Out Swinging Against ICANN’s New gTLD Plan - According to several reports,  the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Jon Leibowitz said said today that a proposal to allow for an unlimited number of new Internet addresses could be a “disaster” for consumers and businesses. The proposal would allow for almost any new top-level domain name, which is the suffix that comes to the right of the dot, such as .Law or .coke or .NYC. In comments made to House Judiciary Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chairman hearing on antitrust enforcement ... read more ...
Thu 17th November 2011
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Owners Of YouPorn.com & DigitalPlayground.com Sues ICM & ICANN Over .XXX For Anti-Trust - Manwin the company which owns some high traffic adult sites including YouPorn.com, and PornHub.com and operates Playboy.com under license of Playboy, along with another large adult operator, and DigitalPlayground.com just filed a  Federal Lawsuit against ICM the company that operates the .XXX Registry and ICANN over the .XXX Top Level Domain (“TLD”). The 44 page suit was filed in the United State District Court for the Central District of California alleging “monopolistic conduct, price gouging, ... read more ...
Wed 16th November 2011
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Breaking: Owner Of YouPorn.com Plans To File Suit Against ICM & ICANN Over .XXX For Anti-Trust - The ICM Registry has just issued a statement indicating that an anti-trust lawsuit will be filed by Manwin against both ICM Registry and ICANN in conjunction with the .XXX domain Top Level Domain. Manwin is the company which owns many highly visited adult sites including, YouPorn.com, Brazzers.com,  PornHub.com and Xtube.com The statement reads: “Our public relations company alerted us to the probable filing today of an anti-trust lawsuit by Manwin against both ICM Registry and ICANN in conjunction ... read more ...
Fri 11th November 2011
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The Opposition To a New gTLD Program Is Looking Like The FSC Vs .XXX More Everyday - Well the news yesterday that 87 “major national and international business associations and companies have joined forces with the ANA (Association of National Advertisers), forming the Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight (CRIDO) to oppose the rollout of ICANN’s top-level domain expansion program.” The announcement got a lot of press, yet the whole thing seems puzzling to me. While the press release announcing this new Coalition threw out some nice names like the Grocery Manufacturers ... read more ...
Tue 25th October 2011
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The Department of Commerence To Put The IANA Contract Up For Bid - The U.S. Government announced a few days its putting up the contract to run the the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) out for competitive bid starting November 4th and ending December 4th. “”The IANA functions include (1) the coordination of the assignment of technical Internet protocol parameters; (2) the administration of certain responsibilities associated with the Internet DNS root zone management; (3) the allocation of Internet numbering resources; and (4) other services related ... read more ...
Fri 14th October 2011
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ICANN’s Assets Grow to $100 Million - ICANN releases audited financial statements for FY11. Today ICANN posted its audited financial statements (pdf) for Financial Year 2011 (which ended in June). Here are some highlights: Total assets grew to $100 million from $83 million the year prior. When accounting for liabilities ICANN has $80 million in “unrestricted net assets”. ICANN has $29 million in cash. It also had close to $52 million in investments (equities and fixed income) as of the end of June, ... read more ...
Wed 28th September 2011
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US Department Of Commerce To ICANN: We wish “A Clear & Enforced Ethics & Conflict of Interest Policy” - In a September 21st letter sent by Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence Strickling to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) disclosed that it is “actively exploring how to best meet this requirement” for “a clear and enforced ethics and conflict of interest policy” in the next version of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract. The situation arising about conflicts of interest arose after the ... read more ...
Tue 27th September 2011
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How Will ICANN Batch The New gTLD Applications? They Don’t Know, Yet - Kurt Pritz of ICANN, spoke today at the NewDomains.org conference when the question was asked; how will ICANN batch or process applications for the new gTLD’s? ICANN previously stated that if more than 500 application were received they would process them in batches,  and that no more than 1,000 extension would be delegated in any year, so how any application is batched may decide if a particular application comes out late in 2012 or maybe for not a year or more later. Many now expect over 1,000 ... read more ...
Mon 19th September 2011
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The New GuideBook Is Out, The New GuideBook Is Out: ICANN Publishes “Final” gTLD Guidebook - Like in the Steve Martin’s Movie the Jerk, where he proclaims the new Phonebook are out, the new Phone book are out;  The new gTLD Guide Book is finally out. Yes ICANN has finally published the “final” gTLD Guidebook. You can download the English version here (pdf) ICANN has made it clear that the Guide Book will be an ongoing process which will be amended on the go, will be a work in progress and may never be “final” “The Applicant Guidebook is intended to be an inclusive guide and ... read more ...
Wed 31st August 2011
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What Could Be Worse Than ICANN? How About Total Control Of The Domain Space By The European Commission - You think ICANN running the domain space is bad? How about The European Commission (EC) controlling it? Kieren McCarthy of Dot-Nxt just wrote about six, yet unpublished papers by the EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General which  wants to have control over the domain space including: “””” A government veto over any new Internet extensions The creation of a list of names, drawn up by governments, that would be banned from registration Significant structural changes at overseeing ... read more ...
Tue 30th August 2011
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Who Will Get .Delta & Other Sticky Points In Our Final Dot Nxt Post - This is going to be my last post about the Dot Nxt Conference but an important one. In the audience from Dot Nxt was a women from Nigeria from a region known as Delta and she was at the conference to try to learn about getting .Delta for her community. Of course there are many other potential applicants for a .Delta including Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet. In the session on “Evaluation and Disputes” the issue was raise how this small community could wind up with .Delta and frankly the answer ... read more ...
Mon 22nd August 2011
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ICANN’s Peter Dengate Thrush Problem - Conflict of interest, whether real or imagined, looks bad for ICANN as it faces fresh criticism over its new TLD plans. ICANN has a problem. As criticism mounts against its approval of the new top level domain name program, some groups are pointing fingers at an inherent conflict of interest. The key example is former ICANN Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate Thrush. One month after pushing through a vote on the new TLD program in his last meeting as Chairman he ... read more ...
Fri 19th August 2011
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ICANN Chairman Stephen Crocker To Be Featured Speaker At The INTA Trademark Group Meeting Next Month - The International Trademark Association (INTA) is meeting next month on September 21 22nd in Washington and the new Chairman of ICANN Stephen Crocker. Here are some of the topics up for discussion at this conference: At this advanced–level conference, learn from distinguished authorities everything that you need to know about developing and protecting your clients’ brands on the Internet, including: The latest developments from ICANN, including the now confirmed rollout of new gTLDs in 2012 ... read more ...
Thu 18th August 2011
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.Asia Plans to Release 1 and 2 Character Domain Names - Registry for .asia domain names wants to release short names. .Asia registry DotAsia Organisation Ltd is joining fellow top level domain name operators with plans to release one and two character domain names. The registry has filed a Registry Services Evaluation Process request with ICANN explaining how it plans to allocate the domain names. Like other registries, it plans a three-pronged release of domain names: 1. Request for Proposal – interested parties can ... read more ...
Tue 16th August 2011
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Rod Beckstrom To Leave ICANN After End of Term - CEO to step down at end of three year tenure. ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom will step down at the end of his three year term, the non-profit announced this afternoon. He has been at the helm of the company since July 2009 and will finish his three year contract at the end of June 2012. It’s been an interesting couple years since he joined the organization. Shortly after he started ICANN gained some independence from the U.S. government. But the relationship ... read more ...
Wed 10th August 2011
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ICANN CEO Snaps Back during ANA Over New TLDs - Beckstrom responds to advertising group with strongly worded letter. ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded (pdf) to a letter (pdf) from Association of National Advertisers (ANA) that had demanded ICANN suspend its plans for the new top level domain name program. Beckstrom informs IANA that “The assertions in your letter are either incorrect or problematic in several respects.” He stresses that the program is the culmination of work with every stakeholder in the ... read more ...
Sun 31st July 2011
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ICANN Calls For Public Input On “Formulations of 2012-2015 Strategic Plan” - Open – Public Comment Request for Community Input on Formulation of 2012-2015 Strategic Plan As part of the strategic planning process each year, ICANN seeks public comment to inform the development of the next version of its Strategic Plan. The 2012-2015 strategic planning process kicked-off in May and community input discussions were held prior to and during Singapore. Leadership also held workshops exploring strategic issues facing ICANN. The next step in the strategic planning process is to ... read more ...
Mon 18th July 2011
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Former ICANN Chairman Joins Minds + Machines - Peter Dengate Thrush joins publicly traded company poised to profit from new top level domain names. That was quick. Less than a month after pushing through a vote approving the new top level domain name program at his last meeting as ICANN Chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush has joined a company applying for new top level domain names. Dengate Thrush will join Top Level Domain Holdings (parent company of Minds + Machines) as Executive Chairman. His compensation package ... read more ...
Tue 28th June 2011
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ICANN Sued in Oregon, Finds Itself in Florida Bankruptcy Court Case - Woman sues ICANN over expired domains; case gets snarled in Florida bankruptcy case. An impoverished woman has sued ICANN in Oregon over expired domain names, and now the non-profit finds itself having to file a brief in a Florida bankruptcy court. Denise Subramaniam sued ICANN in Oregon back in March over domain names she registered for clients that expired. She says the domain registrar became insolvent and that ICANN didn’t do a good enough job enforcing its ... read more ...
Mon 27th June 2011
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New York Passes Gay Marriage (.com): Will .Gay Be Approved As A Community Application Or Will It Go To The Highest Bidder? - As most of you know by now, New York has become the newest state to legalize gay marriage. As the owner of GayMarriage.com we have been following the story closely and now all eyes in the domain world will turn towards the new gTLD .Gay. Its no secret that a group lead by domainer Alexander Schubert is going to apply to operate the .Gay registry based off a community application. Why try to get the extension as a community? Because if you can do that, you avoid a possible auction where the high bidder ... read more ...
Fri 24th June 2011
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Some Stories On The New gTLD’s Are Just So WRONG, Here Is The Worst - There have been literially thousands of stories written on the new gTLD program but many contain inaccurate information or are just plain out wrong. Here’s the worst one we found: Domaininformer.com writes in a post entitled: “Top Level Domains to Shake Up the Web? Not Exactly” Here is the 1st sentence in the story: “”There’s been a lot of press lately regarding ICANN’s decision to allow the creation of just about any type of domain ending. ” Meaning that .com, .org, .edu and others ... read more ...
 
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Steve Crocker Elected New Chairman Of ICANN Board - Steve Crocker has just been elected as Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors,  replacing Peter Dengate Thrush who served as Chairman of the Board very well Here is his bio from ICANN site. “””Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and on the deployment of improved security protocols on the Internet.Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and early ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Approves The Renewal Of .Net Contract With VeriSign - ICANN has just approved the renewal of the .Net contract with VeriSign (VRSN) Here is the resolution which all Board members voted in favor of, with one abstention: Resolution on Renewal of the dot net agreement. Whereas, the current dot net registry agreement is due to expire on 30th June 2011. Whereas,, section 4.2 of the current dot net registry agreement provides that the agreement shall be renewed upon the expiration of the initial term so long as certain requirements are met and that upon ... read more ...
Mon 20th June 2011
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At The End ICANN Stayed True To Its Word - Now that ICANN voted to approve the new gTLD program today in Singapore its interesting to note that ICANN fulfilled the promise it made just a few months ago at its meeting in San Fransisco in March. Back at the San Fransisco ICANN Meeting, Chairman Thrush ended the meeting by saying: “We are going to have a vote early in the Singapore meeting so we ALL can have a party and celebrate” said Chairman Thrush “we are glad to see this time table and are going to stick to it and have a fabulous ... read more ...