Tag Archives: ICANN

Thu 29th April 2010
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ICANN May Seek Contracts with UDRP Providers - No discussion at board meeting, but contractual issue is on the table. What did ICANN discuss about UDRP providers during its board meeting last Thursday? Did it discuss Czech Arbitration Court using “supplemental rules” to change the structure of UDRP, as I predicted? Did it discuss the lack of contracts with UDRP providers? Well, it really didn’t discuss anything. It ran out of time. The “preliminary report” from the meeting states that time constraints ... read more ...
Tue 27th April 2010
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ICANN COO Doug Brent Stepping Down - Doug Brent announces resignation from ICANN. ICANN Chief Operating Officer Doug Brent has announced he’s stepping down at the end of July for personal reasons. Brent joined ICANN in January 2007 in what was then a new role for the organization, and outlines some of the improvements at ICANN since he joined in a blog post. In explaining his departure, Brent writes: While my engagement in the work of ICANN has made this a difficult decision, the reasons I am leaving ... read more ...
Sun 25th April 2010
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ICANN Board Approves Delegation of Four IDN ccTLDs - Four IDN ccTLDs delegated, simultaneous delegation requests from China and Taiwan proceed. The ICANN Board of Directors approved the delegation of four internationalized domain name country code domains on Thursday. The four approved ccTLDs are for Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. Russia will get .рф (xn--p1ai) (“R.F.”), delegated to Coordination Center for TLD RU. Saudi Arabia is getting السعودية (xn--mgberp4a5d4ar) ... read more ...
Wed 31st March 2010
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Commentless Comment Periods during ICANN - 9 comment periods end tomorrow — but commenting is light. Nine different open comment subjects at ICANN close tomorrow — and four of them don’t have a single comment. Despite comment period overload, I’m surprised to see certain communities not getting involved in the process. For example, two of the subjects that don’t have any comments concern Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). ICANN’s decisions around IDNs will greatly impact those domainers who ... read more ...
Sun 28th March 2010
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ICANN Comment Period Closes Today On “Registration Abuse Policies” Report - Your chance to comment to ICANN on the “Initial Report (IR) of the Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (“RAPWG”)  ends today, March 28, 2010 According to ICANN, the Report includes concrete recommendations to address domain name registration abuse in gTLDs for Community consideration and input. Included are recommendations related to: Cybersquatting: recommending the initiation of a Policy Development Process to investigate the current state of the UDRP. Whois access problems: ... read more ...
Fri 12th March 2010
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ICANN Board Drops Bomb on Registrars Hoping to Launch New TLDs - Board opts for separation of registrars and registries for new top level domain names. [Update: Minutes from board meeting emphasize pending plan from GNSO.] ICANN’s board resolved today that there will be “strict separation of entities offering registry services and those acting as registrars. No co-ownership will be allowed.” However, the board left the possibility open for compromise, stating that if the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) comes ... read more ...
Mon 8th March 2010
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ICANN Chair: May be “Ready to Move” on Uniform Rapid Suspension - ICANN session on trademark protection suggests URS is close to being finalized. Of all of the trademark protections being discussed for the launch of new top level domain names, it looks like Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) may be the closest to being approved. Uniform Rapid Suspension is a sort of “light UDRP” for domain names deemed to be clear cut cases of cybersquatting. During the first day of sessions at ICANN’s Nairobi meeting, ICANN Chairman of the Board ... read more ...
 
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ICA Requests Action on Czech Arbitration Court Policy Changes - Internet Commerce Association wants ICANN to act quickly on move by UDRP provider. Internet Commerce Association counsel Philip Corwin has sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom and Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate-Thrush asking it to act on Czech Arbitration Court’s new UDRP policy. Czech Arbitration Court (CAC), one of the newest UDRP providers, proposed a new scheme in which it would charge only 500 EUR to file a domain name complaint and arbitrators ... read more ...
Sat 6th March 2010
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Wired.com Interviews ICANN’s Beckstrom, & Covers The New gTLD’s, Trademarks & More - A new article published today by Wired.com entitled: Domain Name Czar Seeks .OnlineUnity interview Rob Beckstrom CEO of ICANN discusses the proposed gTLD’s and various ICANN and domain issues. My favorite quote from the article by Beckstrom is in response to the issue about the new gTLD’s and trademark holders complaints that they will have to spend too much to buy domain names in each of the new TLDs. Beckstrom says its not ICANN’s job to pre-emptively police trademarks. “Go enforce your ... read more ...
Mon 1st March 2010
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ICANN Bonuses Not Tied to Long Term Revenue, New TLDs - Bonuses mostly based on short term milestones. When ICANN released its compensation ideology and information about the top five salaries last month, I wasn’t all that taken aback by the salaries. What got me curious was the bonus structure. Bonuses drive behavior, and bonuses tied to poor goals drive poor behavior. I have a patent related to goal alignment, so it’s something I’m familiar with. During an exchange at ICANN’s Cairo meeting between Michael ... read more ...
Sat 27th February 2010
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.XXX Registry to ICANN: “We Must Protect Our Rights” - ICM Registry notifies ICANN of its hopes and intentions. Fresh off an independent review victory over ICANN, .XXX top level domain name applicant ICM Registry is asking ICANN to get the show on the road. In a letter (pdf) to ICANN chairman of the board Peter Dengate-Thrush, ICM chairman Stuart Lawley writes: “I am hopeful, as are others in the community, that ICANN will embrace the communications of the panel and use them to improve its processes and to restore ... read more ...
Wed 24th February 2010
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Survey: ICANN Policy Biggest Issue for Domain Industry - Survey finds number of fears about domain market in 2010. ICANN policy decisions are the biggest issue facing the domain name market in 2010, according to a survey of more than 500 people in the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 28% of those survey said that ICANN policy decisions, such as those with new top level domain names, is the biggest issue facing domain investors in 2010. The majority of respondents self-identified as domain name investors, although ... read more ...
Mon 22nd February 2010
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Will ICANN On Now Approve .XXX? ICM Says Yes; ICANN Seems To Say No - As we wrote about over the weekend the independent panel that reviewed ICANN’s handling of the application of ICM Registry to run the .xxx registry, ruled that since ICANN voted to approve the application it should have allowed it to move forward without the additional review it understook. So the question now becomes whether ICANN will follow the report of the panel and approve the ICM Registry’s application for the .xxx extension in its next meeting. The ICM Registry believes it will be allowed ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Approval Rating Hits 5-year Low - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gets low marks. The percentage of people rating ICANN’s performance as “Good” has hit its lowest point since Domain Name Wire started its annual survey five years ago. In the fifth survey, including responses from over 500 people in the domain name industry, only 12% rated their satisfaction with ICANN as “good”. That’s down from 33% in 2006. 40% of respondents rated ICANN “poor”, up ... read more ...
Sat 20th February 2010
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Report Finds Against ICANN In Denying The .XXX Extension & Charges Them The $475K Cost - Yesterday an independent panel, the International Centre For Dispute Resolution (pdf) found in a 80 page decision, in favor of the ICM Registry against ICANN for its decision to eventually reject the .xxx extension and ruled that ICANN had to pick up all the costs of the independent panel to the tune of $475K and reimburse ICM the fees it paid for the application to the tune of another $241K. (ICM is stuck for its own attorney fees). However the ruling by its nature is advisory only and has no biding ... read more ...
Fri 19th February 2010
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VeriSign Joins List of Companies Not Going to Nairobi - .Com registry to participate remotely. The world’s biggest registrar, Go Daddy, has already announced it is not sending anyone to the ICANN meeting in Nairobi due to security concerns. Now you can add the biggest registry, VeriSign, to the list. The company confirmed to me today via e-mail that it will not be sending anyone to participate in-person at the event: VeriSign has decided to participate virtually in the upcoming ICANN meetings in Nairobi. We made this ... read more ...
Tue 16th February 2010
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Go Daddy, Neustar, IPC Say No to Nairobi Meeting - Groups back out of Nairobi meeting over security concerns; will test limits of remote participation systems. Domain name registrar Go Daddy, registry Neustar, and the Intellectual Property Constituency have all informed ICANN that they will not be attending the upcoming meeting in Nairobi due to security concerns. Security has been a major concern for the meeting, but was escalated last week after it became known that a suicide bomb attack was planned against the ... read more ...
 
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Uniform Rapid Suspension Scheme for Domain Names Still on a Table - New proposal still doesn’t make sense. But reforming UDRP does. It’s baaaack! After being almost shot to death, the so-called “Uniform Rapid Suspension” idea (basically a very fast UDRP for alleged trademark domains) is back. When URS was originally proposed, it was ridiculed from just about every sector of the domain name world. But a new group was formed to try to salvage it. Originally created by “Implementation Recommendation Team”, it was then ... read more ...
Thu 11th February 2010
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NonProfit? ICANN Releases Salaries: Beckstrom Over $2.2 Million Guaranteed; CFO $270K Per, Lawyer $230K Per PLUS PLUS - ICANN released its “compensation practices” today (pdf file) and for an organization that is “non-profit” there is some serious money being made by the insiders. According to the document, CEO Rod Beckstrom entered in to a three year employment agreement effective 1 July 2009 with a base salary of US$750,000 per year. Right. 3 years @ $750K per Guaranteed. In the height of the recession when over 10% of the population is unemployed, the leader of the non-profit monopoly got a guarantee of  ... read more ...
Fri 29th January 2010
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ICANN Shuts Down DomainCannon, Owes $187,000 in Fees - Domain registrar shut down after not paying accreditation fees. ICANN has sent a notice of termination to New Orleans-based domain name registrar DomainCannon, citing a number of infractions. The registrar apparently owes $186,598.39 in past due accreditation fees. Additionally, it’s web site is not available, and it has failed to escrow whois data, the letter states. The termination notice from ICANN also notes that DomainCannon is in breach of VeriSign’s registry-registrar ... read more ...
Thu 28th January 2010
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Governments Deliver Another Blow to New Top Level Domain Timeline - GAC asks to postpone expressions of interest for new top level domain names. The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) is asking ICANN to delay a decision on the so-called “Expressions of Interest” process for new top level domain names. In a letter dated January 26, GAC Chairman Janis Karklins says that the period of community feedback has been to short and more time is needed to deliberate and fully understand the implications of the EOI process. The chairman ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2010
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Comment Period On Uniform Rapid Suspension Procedure Closes Today: Get Your Comments In - As we discussed the other day,  ICANN is considering the recommendation of one of its groups to “create a Trademark Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension procedure to protect trademarks” The public comment period ends today , 26 January 2010. You can read the proposal here. (pdf) To see all the comments submitted so far, click here. To make a comment you have to send an e-mail to ICANN at the following address: sti-report-2009@icann.org Once your comment is received, ICANN will e-mail you ... read more ...
Mon 25th January 2010
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ICANN Hires New VP of Policy Development and Why it Matters - ICANN hires new VP for policy, which insiders say is a good move. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has hired David Olive to take over the position of Vice President of Policy Development. According to a number of insiders I’ve communicated with, and one very public blog post, this move is very welcome to both many inside and outside ICANN. The focus seems to be less on what Olive brings to the table — he was hired over from Fujitsu, where he ... read more ...
 
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ICANN To Hold Pre-Conference Security Calls on Nairobi Meeting - Calls to discuss security and logistics. ICANN is doing something different in advance of its next meeting, to be held in Nairobi: advance security and logistics teleconferences. The organization will host identical calls this Thursday and Friday to inform and educate attendees about security measures and how to come prepared. There was talk that ICANN would move the conference after recent demonstrations around Nairobi, Kenya. Apparently this was prompted because ... read more ...
Thu 21st January 2010
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ICANN Considers Security Concerns for Kenya Meeting - Meeting might be moved to different location in Kenya. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has called a special meeting of the Board of Directors to address security concerns for the upcoming ICANN meeting in Kenya. Although the details on ICANN’s web site are minimal, an editorial in ComputerWorld Kenya suggests ICANN is considering moving the meeting from Nairobi to a UN compound in Gigiriin. This isn’t the first time security concerns have ... read more ...