Tag Archives: ICANN

Fri 26th June 2015
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ICANN Best Estimate For New gTLD Renewal Rate 50%; 25% For Free Domains: 35% Worst Case - In releasing its 2016 operating budget ICANN made some estimate for the purposes of budgeting revenue from new gTLD’s. ICANN is saying its “Best” estimate is that the average renewal rate will be 50% for new gTLD’s except for TLD’s that provided free registrations where the renewal rate was estimated at 25%. On The Low estimate the ICANN seems to be indicating a new gTLD renewal rate of 35% but does not break out the free registrations from paid registrations so that number should have ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Mar 2016 Meeting To Be In Morocco, Oct 2016 In Puerto Rico - The ICANN Board selected locations to hold its meetings for March 2016 and October 2016 before heading out of the ICANN Buenos Airs meeting. The March 2016 ICANN meeting (ICANN 55) with be held in Marrakech, Morocco which had already been selected for the site for the March 2016 ICANN Meeting after ICANN relocated the meeting scheduled for March 2014 to Singapore during the outbreak of Ebola. The Marrakech meeting will be held March 5-10 2016 ICANN announced it was going to hold its October 2016 ... read more ...
Thu 25th June 2015
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GAC Communiqué From The ICANN Meeting In Buenos Aires, Argentina - The Governmental Advisory group has issued its Communiqué From The ICANN Meeting In Buenos Aires, Argentina outlining its activities for the week and suggestions for the ICANN Board: The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the week of the 20th of June 2015. Sixty nine (69) GAC Members attended the meeting and nine (9) Observers. Here are the highlights: Cross Community Working Group (CWG) to ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in NL and tagged
Anoniem een webdomein registreren is er straks niet meer bij -

leg vooral parkeerdomeinen aan banden. Van die klojo’s als sedoparking daar heb je niks aan.

Via: bright.nl

 
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Russian Govt Blocks The Way Back Machine: Still Sure The US Should Give Away ICANN? - According to GlobalVoicesOnline.org, the Russian government has blocked the Wayback Machine, which allows users to view archived webpages to see how domain sites looked like in the past. According to the website Rublacklist.net (a censorship-monitoring project operated by the Russian Pirate Party), the entire domain and IP address for the Internet Archive was added on June 23, 2015, to Russia’s official registry of banned websites. The decision to ban the Internet Archive appears to be the work ... read more ...
Wed 24th June 2015
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This is Why People Hate ICANN: GNSO Resolution for Next turn of New gTLD's - The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) just sent me over this resolution concerning the next round of new gTLD’s which it seemed to just pass. Read through it a few times. I have no idea what it says and I’m a lawyer For me it means nothing, just a lot of noise Last year we predicted the soonest we would see a 2nd round of new gTLD’s open is in four years, 2018. I think we are good with our prediction Here is the resolution Feel free to tell me what the hell it means: 4. Request for ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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Congress TM Caucus Tells ICANN To Give Amazon; .Amazon If It Wants Its Independence - The co-chairman’s of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, wrote to ICANN telling them they need to approve Amazon’s application for .Amazon which has been rejected due to “rights” asserted by Brazil nor Peru in relation to the Amazon Forest and tied the outcome of this issue to the IANA transition away from US oversight that ICANN is seeking: “At this critical stage in which the United States Government prepares to transition stewardship of the JANA functions, we believe it is incumbent ... read more ...
 
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Namecheap Launches Respectourprivacy.com To Save Private Whois Registrations - Namecheap.com, in association with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight For The Future (FFTF), launched the website Respectourprivacy.com to allow people to file a comment with ICANN letting them know they object to the proposed rule that would greatly restrict the use of privacy or proxy services on whois records of domain names. ICANN public comment period closes on July 7th midnight UTC. As of yesterday there were only 8 comments posted to the ICANN site. Today there are 833. The ... read more ...
Sun 21st June 2015
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.Sucks Gets Almost 3,400 Domain Registrations At Prices Up To $2,499 in Sunrise - The .Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Sucks generated over 3,400 domain name registrations at pricing ranging  up to $2,500 per domain name. Premium .Sucks Sunrise registrations were sold for up to $2,499,  with at a wholesale cost of $2,000 as set by the .sucks registry, Vox Populi Registry Ltd. If all 3,400 registrations in Sunrise were sold at the $2K premium wholesale price,  then Vox Populi just pulled in $6.8 Million Mark Zuckerberg registered no less than 10 .sucks domain names: markzuckerberg.sucks markzuckerbergreally.sucks mzuckerberg.sucks mzuckerbergtotally.sucks zuck.sucks zuckerberg.sucks zuckerbergreally.sucks zuckerbergtotally.sucks zuckreally.sucks zucks.sucks Guess ... read more ...
Mon 15th June 2015
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Neustar's Sean Kaine on .US, .Co, new TLDs and ICANN – DNW Podcast #37 - What’s the future of .US? What effect are new TLDs having on legacy domains? Find out in this podcast. Neustar has lots of experience with non-.com domains. It operates the registry for .co, .us and .biz, and is also the back end registry provider for a lot of new TLDs. On this episode, Neustar VP of Registry Sean Kaine talks about these top level domains and how he sees the internet naming landscape changing in the coming years. What’s the future of .US? Why is .Co still growing in the face ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: .Sucks and .Markets - .Sucks hits general availability and the company that spent $4.7 million for a .com launches a new top level domain name. It will be a controversial week for new top level domain names, assuming Vox Populi doesn’t delay the start of .sucks general availability a second time. .Sucks domain names become available to the general public on Saturday at a suggested retail price of $249. Companies can also block their domains at participating registrars for about $199. The much-maligned “consumer advocate” ... read more ...
Sat 13th June 2015
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Tells ICANN Not To Extend URS To .Travel - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EEF) has filed a comment with ICANN objecting to the Extension of Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) to .Travel Domains. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. We work to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced ... read more ...
Thu 11th June 2015
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Canada responds to ICANN about .Sucks - Move along, now… John Knubley, Deputy Minister of Industry Canada, has responded (pdf) to the letter ICANN sent to both the U.S. FTC and Canada regarding the .sucks domain name. Knubley basically states that this is not a matter for the government, and that if intellectual property rights holders think a .sucks domain infringes their mark, they already know what to do about it: Canada’s laws provide comprehensive protections for all Canadians. Canada has intellectual property, competition, criminal ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2015
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Bill Passes in House to Give Congress 30 days to examination Internet Transition Plan - TheHill.com is out with an article today about a House subcommittee approving a bill that would require President Obama to give Congress some time to review any Internet transition. The bill today was a compromise of a previous bill that would have included a GAO report. ICANN president Fadi Chehade said the group would likely be able to give the government a transition proposal by the end of the year. He recently told Reuters he believes the whole process could be finished before the 2016 elections. From ... read more ...
Mon 8th June 2015
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When Will The 2nd gTLD Round Open? ICANN Puts Out RFP For Study; Final Report Jul 2017 - There has been much discussion on when ICANN would open up a 2nd round of new gTLD’s. We at thedomains.com, already went on record last year predicting 2018 would be the earliest and its looking like we were right. ICANN has put out a Request for Proposal  (RFP)  to conduct a technical study examining the impact of the New gTLD Program (the Program) on the DNS root system. According to ICANN “This will be the first analysis of the impact of the addition of significantly more TLDs to the root ... read more ...
Sun 7th June 2015
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ICANN CEO Fadi Writes On Huffington Post "A Critical Moment for a Future of a Internet" - In a story just published by the HuffingtonPost.com, entitled “A Critical Moment for the Future of the Internet” the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé, who has already announced he will be stepping down next year, makes the case for  ICANN leaving US oversight: Here are some highlights “The Internet, the greatest invention of our generation — several generations in fact — is in many ways a reflection of the American Dream. ” “It’s vast and open, unlimited in its potential reach. “It’s ... read more ...
Wed 3rd June 2015
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Fred Krueger: "Why we Hate ICANN" - 1. ICANN spends something like 100 Million dollars a year on travel (more if you count the total waste spent by all ICANN participants) on various boondoggles in places like Cartagena, Columbia. The *exact same people* show up at these meetings, begging the question as to why they don’t meet in a more cost efficient location such as Playa Del Ray, California, where ICANN is headquartered. And the answer is — that would be favoriting the US. These other countries deserve their own galas, opening ... read more ...
Tue 2nd June 2015
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ICANN Study Finds 46% Aware of New gTLD's; Only 80% Know .Com, .Net and .Org - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published the findings from its ICANN Global Consumer Research Study, to measure aspects of consumer awareness, perceived consumer choice, experience and trust related to the current generic top-level domain (gTLD) landscape and the domain name system (DNS). The global study surveyed 6,144 consumers aged 18+ representing Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America, and was administered in 18 languages and drawn from 24 countries. ... read more ...
Wed 27th May 2015
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ICANN Reports On Security Breach Of New gTLD Applicant Portal: 60 Searches: 200+ Records - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today provided an update on its investigation into a data exposure issue in the New gTLD Applicant and GDD (Global Domains Division) portals, first reported on 1 March 2015 In its 30 April announcement, ICANN noted its intention to disclose to affected users the identity of any user(s) that viewed their information without authorization by May 27th 2015. This activity has been completed. Specifically, ICANN: Notified the users whose ... read more ...
 
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What Fadi Chehadé should do in his final year as ICANN's CEO - Here’s what companies and people want to see ICANN’s outgoing CEO accomplish before he leaves the post. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé made the surprise announcement last week that he would step down from his role as CEO of the organization next March. I reached out to a number of companies and people in the ICANN community to ask what they would most like to see Chehadé accomplish in this last ten months at the head of the internet group. Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows: If Fadi were to take practical ... read more ...
Thu 21st May 2015
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ICA Sounds The Alarm: Tell ICANN No to URS during .Travel – Or It Will Travel to .Com - Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (the “ICA)  just published a post,  sounding a very loud alarm, to head off what would be the first step that would make all .Com domain name subject to the Uniform Rapid Suspension Policy (URS) which allows “trademark holders” to go after domain names. To remind everyone the URS which is only in effect for new gTLD’s is now being proposed in the new contract for the .Travel Registry which is not a new gTLD but an incumbent Top Level Domain ... read more ...
 
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Fadi Chehadé Stepping Down As ICANN President & CEO in Mar 2016 -             The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that President and CEO Fadi Chehadé has informed the Board he will be stepping down in  March 2016 to move into a new career in the private sector (outside the Domain Name Industry). At the request of the Board, Chehadé will be available to work closely with ICANN after March 2016 to support the transition to a new leader, as well as to advise the Board on any issue they require including the implementation ... read more ...
Sun 17th May 2015
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ICANN Could Be Privatized by a finish of a year - PCTechMag.com wrote an article that discussed ICANN being on its own by the end of the year. Fadi Chehade gave comments on Thursday that all the parts were in place for this to happen. From the article: The head of the nonprofit group that oversees the world’s Internet addresses expressed confidence Thursday that it would be privatized and out of US government control by year’s end. Fadi Chehade’s comments came despite criticism in the US Congress, where some lawmakers have resisted the plan ... read more ...
Wed 13th May 2015
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Here Is The Statement Phil Corwin Of The ICA Will Be Giving To The House Judiciary Committee - Here is the Statement of Philip S. Corwin,  Counsel, Internet Commerce Association   will give today to the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet The hearing is entitled: “Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation” The hearing should have a live webcast here and is scheduled to start at 10am EST Here is Mr. Corwin statement and there are some ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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.Sucks Registry Goes On Offense & Threatens To Sue ICANN For Defamation/Breach of Contract - In a sternly worded letter sent to ICANN today by the attorney’s representing Vox Populi the operator of the .Sucks registry put ICANN on notice that they believe ICANN has defamed the registry and its own rules and regulation and made it clear a lawsuit maybe forthcoming The letter was written by R. David Hosp a principal  in the law firm of the New York firm of Fish Richardson P.C. Here is the letter unedited, our comments follow: “”This firm represents ICANN’s contractual partner, Vox ... read more ...