Tag Archives: ICANN

Mon 21st February 2011
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ICANN Working Group Issues Recommendations Regarding Domain Hijacking - The working ICANN working group published its recommendations on the proposal that would allow domain owners to claw back domains for up to six months in the case of theft of a domain. Some worried that this provision would be used to undo a transaction by a seller that got a higher offer on a domain after a sale was made public or by someone who just changed their mind after a sale: “”The GNSO Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy (IRTP) Part B Policy Development Process Working Group was tasked ... read more ...
 
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House Rep. Promises Hearings On New gTLD’s: “We Want To Ask Them Why It Is Necessary & Important To Do That” - During his remarks this weekend on C-Span Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who is the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property,  he promised a that the House would be holding a hearing on ICANN’s plan on expand the number of top level domains otherwise known as new gTLD’s. “We are also going to hold a hearing on ICANN’s plan to dramatically expand the number of domain extensions, which could immensely complicate the ability of  people from protecting their Intellectual  Property ... read more ...
Fri 18th February 2011
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Zuccarini Files Another Lawsuit, This Time Adding ICANN to a List - Zuccarini sues three companies for negligence. John Zuccarini has filed another lawsuit (pdf) stemming from the sale of 14 domain names on NameJet. In this case he counts Network Solutions, NameJet, and now ICANN as defendants. Zuccarini owes the IRS and creditors $550,000, some of which involves a cybersquatting judgment against him. A court-appointed receiver was holding some of his domain names to satisfy these debts, but he accidentally let some of them expire. ... read more ...
Wed 16th February 2011
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ICANN: No Vote On New gTLD’s At ICANN SF - According to ICANN.org blog, there will be no board vote on the new gTLD’s at the San Francisco ICANN meeting in March. “”We wanted to provide some additional information on the work being carried out by ICANN’s Board of Directors and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to prepare for their upcoming meeting in Brussels on the new gTLD program. As detailed in our recent announcements and blog, the Board and the GAC will hold a joint workshop to discuss the GAC’s concerns regarding ... read more ...
Tue 1st February 2011
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US Wants To Make Loser Pay For All Costs & Domain Transferred Under New Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS): ICA Responds - On last Friday, January 28th the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) submitted a paper  to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee containing its suggestions for what position the GAC should push for at its February 28 – March 1 meeting with ICANN’s Board. According to the letter the U.S. wants the GAC to ask ICANN to make the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) into a “loser pays” system. The DOC also wants ICANN to give  trademark holders the right get the domain names transferred to them ... read more ...
Sat 29th January 2011
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We Should Find Out Next Week If UDRP Reform Is Coming: ICA Corwin Reacts - Next week on February 3 the GNSO (General Names Supporting Organization) of ICANN will take a vote on a motion that will determine whether ICANN will consider UDRP reform. The motion up for vote includes the following: “”RESOLVED #2, the GNSO Council requests an Issues Report on the current state of the UDRP. This effort should consider: How the UDRP has addressed the problem of cybersquatting to date, and any insufficiencies/inequalities associated with the process. Whether the definition of ... read more ...
Thu 27th January 2011
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ICANN Briefing Documents Still Full of Redactions - by Kevin Murphy ICANN continues to hide details of staff briefings to Board. ICANN is continuing to redact large portions of its board briefing documents, despite the recommendations of its Accountability and Transparency Review team. The organization has just published over 300 pages of documentation that was used to inform its board of directors before its meeting in Cartagena last month. But large chunks of text have been whited out. Many of the redacted portions ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Guidebook May Be Approved in Mar After All - New TLD supporters received good news today. After what seemed like disappointing news last week, now things are looking up for potential new top level domain name applicants. ICANN just released resolutions from its board meeting on January 25 and they indicate that ICANN plans to go forward with approving the applicant guidebook during the March meeting in San Francisco. The group plans to “trigger the Bylaws mandated consultation” with the Governmental Advisory ... read more ...
Sat 22nd January 2011
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New Top Level Domain Timeline Takes Another Hit - More delays likely to handle GAC issues. ICANN has released details about its upcoming meeting with the Governmental Advisory Committee regarding new top level domain names. Although the meeting will take place ahead of the ICANN meeting in San Francisco this March, the February 28-March 1 get together does not appear to be the final meeting between the two on the matter. As Kevin Murphy points out, ICANN’s release about the meeting states “This meeting is not ... read more ...
Mon 17th January 2011
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WTR: Trademark Owners Plan to A Big Push For More Protection Before ICANN Mar Meeting - According to the WorldTrademarkReview.com, trademark holders are planning on making a big push for more protections for them and less rights for domain name holders during the ICANN board meets with the Government Advisory Council (GAC) next month before the ICANN March meeting in SF. The GAC is an ICANN advisory group made up of representatives from many governments. As we reported from the ICANN Colombia meeting, the Government representatives which apparently were heavily and effective lobbied ... read more ...
Thu 13th January 2011
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ICANN Threatens to Shut Down 3 Domain Name Registrars - Three domain registrars face termination if they don’t start escrowing whois information immediately. ICANN has warned three domain name registrars that they face termination if they don’t start escrowing whois data within 15 days. The three registrars — iWelt AG, Zog Media dba Zog Names, and Centrohost — have not been escrowing their data with Iron Mountain. Escrowing data is important for .com and .net domain names because the registrar is the only entity ... read more ...
 
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Bill Clinton to Address ICANN San Francisco Meeting - Former President Clinton set to keynote next ICANN meeting. [Update: ICANN confirms that Clinton has accepted an offer to speak at the meeting but the contract is still being finalized. It also says that his speaking fee will be covered by a targeted sponsorship.] You might still call it a rumor, but Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines says he has confirmed with “A personal source close to Bill Clinton” that President Clinton will keynote March’s ICANN ... read more ...
Wed 5th January 2011
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VeriSign Gives ICANN $500k for Sponsorship - Hefty price tags to sponsor March event. I’ve written before about the relationship between ICANN and sponsors of its meetings. It looks like ICANN has upped the ante for its Spring meeting in San Francisco. As Kevin Murphy spotted today, ICANN has new sponsorship tiers for its next meeting reaching up to $500,000. VeriSign, which brings in over a half billion a year in fees on .com and .net through a contract with ICANN, has already signed up at the $500,000 ... read more ...
Mon 27th December 2010
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ICANN to Neustar: Yes, You Can Own a Registrar - Registry-Registrar separation will create interesting circumstances for established registries. ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz sent a letter to Neustar Vice President Jeff Neuman last week (pdf) regarding registry-registrar separation. ICANN’s board dropped a bombshell in November when it said there would be no restrictions on registrars owning registries for new top level domains. Observers questioned how exactly this would work for existing registries ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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ICANN Extends Public Comment Period for New TLD Guidebook - More time to weigh in on new top level domain name plan. ICANN frequently extends the deadline to submit public comments on both major and minor issues. But this is done prior to the comment period ending to give people more time to consider how they want to weigh in. A number of people requested additional time to comment on the proposed Final Applicant Guidebook for new TLDs but were rebuffed and the comment period ended a week ago. Now it has risen from the ... read more ...
Wed 15th December 2010
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Domainers Need to Bring Professionalism to ICANN San Francisco - San Francisco event could be good for domainers — if they bring their professionalism. Next up on the ICANN meeting schedule is meeting #40 in San Francisco. Being the first U.S. meeting in a while, and since there will be some sort of TRAFFIC event immediately proceeding the event, you’re going to see a lot more domainers there than usual. This is a good thing as domain investors are generally underrepresented in just about everything that deals with ICANN. But ... read more ...
Tue 14th December 2010
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In A Video Interview ICANN’s CEO & Chairman Says .XXX Extension Approval “Is Little More Than A Formality - ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush and CEO Rod Beckstrom indicated in a video tapped interview today ICANN will proceed with the registry contract over the GAC’s objections, if necessary The Video interview appears on the top of the ICANN site. Both the Chairman and the CEO indicated that Consultation with the GAC which is scheduled for February “is little more than a formality” Thrush went on to say: “We have to take the advice from governments very seriously” Under ICANN’s bylaws, ... read more ...
Mon 13th December 2010
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Will ICANN Ever Approve New gTLD’s? Check Out The Language In This Resolution - One of the resolutions the ICANN Board made on Friday may indicate that new gTLD’s applicants may have a LONG time before getting their extension. The Resolution passed on Friday, entitled Consumer Choice, Competition and Innovation, said: “Whereas, if and when new gTLDs have been in operation for one year, ICANN has committed to organize a review that will examine the extent to which the introduction or expansion of gTLDs has promoted competition, consumer trust and consumer choice.” If ... read more ...
Sun 12th December 2010
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ICANN Colombia Meeting: All Talk; No Action - As the ICANN meeting wrapped up with ICANN punting on making any meaningful decision after a 5 days of committee, subcommittees, working groups, advisory board meetings, public comment sessions and Board meetings, my feeling leaving Colombia is that the meeting amounted to All Talk and No Action. For those of you who have never attended an ICANN meeting (which is free to attend) there are typically 6 or more opened or closed sessions going on at the same time, for 5 days from 9am to 6pm. Moreover ... read more ...
Fri 10th December 2010
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ICM Registry Issues Press Release On ICANN Board Decision - The ICM Registry who is seeking the the .XXX extension just issued a press release to respond to the decision of the ICANN board this morning in which they said the “intend” to enter into a contract with ICM to run the registry, but just not yet Here is the press release: “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has stated that it intends to contract with ICM Registry for the use of .XXX as a top level domain name (TLD). ICM has been campaigning for .XXX to be recognized ... read more ...
Thu 9th December 2010
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Last Chance: Comment Period For New gTLD Guidebook Closes 7am Friday, Get your Comments In - The period to comment to ICANN on the latest and supposedly the last draft Guidebook for the new gTLD’s closes on Friday Morning at 7AM EST so this is your last chance to comment. The ICA just filed their comments today and Phil Corwin from the ICA has informed me that all domainers can cut and paste comments from his letter and use them as part of their own comment.  I spoke to Phil in detail prior to the drafting of the letter and most of my objections and comments are included in this letter ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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The UK & Other Governments Give The ICANN Board A Good Working Over On The New gTLD’s - The 2nd day of the ICANN meeting in Colombia was highlighted by The Government Advisory Committee (the GAC)  open meeting yesterday with the ICANN board. The room was packed. Not a seat was avaliable and many people stood and leaned against the walls to hear what representatives of governments from around the world had to say about the new gTLD program and the current “final” Guidebook. What the crowd witnessed was the GAC giving the ICANN board a good old fashion spanking over the gTLD process. For ... read more ...
 
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Registry Group Asks ICANN To Remove All Pricing Rules on New TLDs - Registries want to remove all pricing controls on new top level domain names. ICANN’s Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) has submitted comments regarding the Proposed Final Applicant Guidebook for new top level domain names. One proposed change sticks out: requesting no notice requirements for price changes on top level domain names. As it stands in the guidebook right now, a registry for new TLDs must give 30 days notice prior to changing the cost of a new domain ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Blasts KnujOn for “Not Verifying a Facts” - ICANN says article by KnujOn is factually inaccurate. KnujOn has been a controversial group when it comes to trying to clean up domain name abuse. Its latest attack was on ICANN in an article on CircleID titled “Two Years Later Dozens of Registrars Still in the Shadows“. The crux of the article is that 23 domain name registrars do not disclose their addresses on their web sites as required in section 3.16 of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). There’s ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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ICANN Day 1: The Natives Are Getting Restless & Other Observations - The ICANN meeting got under way in Colombia yesterday and the new gTLD’s were back front and center. There were two sessions on the new gTLD program today and my general take away from listening to the many people who got up and spoke during the sessions is that the applicants and service providers are getting tired of the process and want ICANN to move ahead NOW. While there is still some opposition and some cautionary voices, their voices are much less than number than they were just a few months ... read more ...