Tag Archives: ICANN

Tue 2nd December 2014
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ICANN Opens Comment Period For Its Move Out of US Control: Deadline Is Dec 22nd - ICANN has opened the comment period for the issue of the year, the transition of ICANN of key Internet domain name functions away from oversight control of the United States to the “global multistakeholder community.” “This draft transition proposal is the result of work by the Domain Name System (DNS3) community (the names community) to meet the requirements associated with this transition as defined by the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) “Following the request of the ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2014
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Defending Internet Freedom Act of 2014 Introduced To Stop US From Giving Up Control Over ICANN - A Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives, yesterday the Defending Internet Freedom Act of 2014 which would prevent the Obama administration, or that of any future president, from relinquishing the critical functions of the Internet to any other entity without enhanced congressional oversight and until explicit, freedom-protecting requirements are met. The bill is co-sponsored by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), who also serves as chairman and co-founder ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2014
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ICANN CEO: Government Attempts to Impose Rules on The Internet are Doomed to Fail - ICANN Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehade told Bloomberg yesterday in an interview that government attempts to impose rules on the Internet are doomed to fail “Governments can’t effectively enforce laws on websites available in different jurisdictions. Any group that makes policies for the Web must be decentralized and involve the private sector and academia” “The Internet itself has morphed so fast” that policies may be futile” “We need mechanisms that are rapid, that are effective ... read more ...
Thu 13th November 2014
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ICANN Clears a Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names - ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and analysis of the first batch of Public Comments, the ICANN Board passed Resolution 2014.10.16.14 on 7 November 2014 directing ICANN staff to “develop and implement an efficient procedure for the release of two-character domains currently required to be reserved ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Internet wins as justice denies suit to seize ccTLDs - Court rules .ir, .sy, .kp and related IDNs cannot be “attached” as compensation. ICANN and the internet community at large got a victory this week as a U.S. court denied a request (pdf) to seize country code top level domains (ccTLDs) as compensation in a lawsuit. A number of claimants that had won a judgement against Iran, Syria and North Korea over terrorism charges had demanded control of the country’s ccTLDs (.IR, .SY and .KP plus IDN versions) as payment. The ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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ICANN Changes Last Resort Auction Rules To Allow Early Bidding -

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Tue 4th November 2014
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Its Official: ICANN 52 Is Relocated To Singapore - ICANN has relocated its 52nd meeting scheduled to take place in Marrakech, Morocco in February 2015, to Singapore In the official announcement made tonight by ICANN said: “Community concerns that would prevent maximum participation at its next global meeting (ICANN 52, 8-12 February 2015), a critical one given the ongoing discussions around the IANA Stewardship Transition and ICANN Accountability, has prompted ICANN to postpone the meeting in Marrakech, Morocco and to relocate to Singapore on ... read more ...
Fri 31st October 2014
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ICANN Pays Over $2 Million Dollars For Its Directors + CEO Fadi Gets Almost $1.4 Million - ICANN published its compensation paid to or on behalf of 23 people who servered on its Board of Directors ending June 30, 2014. In all 23 people received over $2,000,000 combined in “any payments made by ICANN to Directors (including reimbursements of expenses).” During the  Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2014, there were seven face-to-face meetings for Board members, including four regular ICANN Meetings (Durban in July 2013, Buenos Aires in November 2013, Singapore in March 2014, and London ... read more ...
Sun 26th October 2014
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ICANN: no preference nonetheless on Morocco meeting - Organization is considering its options due to possible travel restrictions. ICANN today responded to rumors about postponing next February’s meeting in Morocco by saying it has not yet made a decision. However, it confirmed that it is considering a postponement related to the Ebola outbreak. While Morocco itself is not at the center of the outbreak in Western Africa, host officials are concerned that future travel restrictions might limit the ability for people ... read more ...
Sat 25th October 2014
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Breaking: Report Says ICANN Is “Postponing” Meeting in Marrakech in February - According to a report in Moroccoworldnews.com, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to postpone its 52nd meeting scheduled to take place in Marrakech from February 8-12. “ICANN is an international entity that coordinates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, which are key technical services critical to the continued operations of the Internet’s underlying address book, the Domain Name System (DNS).” The article is citing another publication, ... read more ...
Fri 24th October 2014
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The 100 People Who Will Shape The Future of The Internet - Kieren McCarthy wrote a piece on TheRegister.co.uk about the 100 people who will shape the future of the Internet. The article takes a look at the Cross Community Working Group who will set out to propose the right transition plan for IANA. From the article: Unfortunately, despite having had nearly 14 years to think about it, the process for deciding how to move the global internet and its addressing systems out from under a US government contract will be decided in the next four weeks. By 100 people. ... read more ...
Thu 23rd October 2014
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Disse avgjør Internetts skjebne - Og de har fem uker å gjøre det på. I løpet av de neste 35 dagene må de bestemme seg, de 98 som sitter i Cross Community Working Group (CWG) i det internasjonale nettstyringsorganet ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Tenkt i 14 årDe har hatt hele 14 år på å tenke seg om, så vi får håpe de tar en klok avgjørelse. Vi snakker nemlig om intet mindre enn slutten på Internett slik vi kjenner det i dag. Innen ett år skal ICANN løsrives fra amerikansk ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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ICANN slashes new TLD forecast, though is it enough? - ICANN is forecasting 15 million new TLD registrations during the current fiscal year. ICANN has slashed the number of new top level domain name registrations it expects during this fiscal year for budgeting purposes, but is its picture still too rosy? That’s a question that members of the Registrar Stakeholders group asked ICANN’s board last week in Los Angeles. In May, ICANN set a draft proposed budget for the 2015 fiscal year, which runs from this July to June ... read more ...
Sun 19th October 2014
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Reforms Needed Before U.S. Hands Over Control of ICANN - Senator Mark Warner (D-Va) wrote a piece on Information Week that discusses the reforms that need to be addressed before the keys to ICANN are handed over. He touches upon things like, Who will hold ICANN accountable, transparency with the public and the sanctity of the DNS. From the article: The FCC recently received more than 3.7 million comments on its proposed rules to govern how Internet providers will treat traffic on their networks. However, there’s another pivotal discussion happening ... read more ...
Thu 16th October 2014
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Here is a GAC Communiqué From ICANN 51 Los Angeles - The Governmental Advisory Council to ICANN (GAC)  released its Communiqué concluding its activity from the ICANN 51 conference that was held this week in  Los Angeles, CA. Here are the highlights: Transition of US Stewardship of IANA and Strengthening ICANN Accountability The GAC met with members of the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and was briefed on the transition proposal process in relation to names, numbers and protocol parameters. The GAC advises the ICANN Board ... read more ...
 
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Vil ha mer kontroll over nettet - – Regjeringene bør bestemme. I dag er det den USA-baserte, internasjonale organisasjonen ICANN som har det tekniske ansvaret  Internett-standardene. Diskuterer nytt systemMen denne ordningen er under diskusjon. Mens EU og europeiske land (Norge inkludert) mener at FN bør få større makt, mener land som Kina, Iran og Saudi-Arabia at ansvaret i større grad bør legges på regjeringene i de enkelte land. Møtes til ukaNeste uke møtes den internasjonale teleunionen ITU i Busan, ... read more ...
 
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10 photos from ICANN 51 - A quick visual look at this week’s ICANN meeting in Los Angeles. It has been a busy, busy week in Los Angeles. I’ll have more thoughts on ICANN 51 later. For now, I have a collection of photos from in and around the event. Captions are below each photo. Entertainment during TLD Registry (“Dot Chinese Online” and “Dot Chinese Website”) and .Club event on Sunday at a popular Chinese restaurant. I also had a chance to hang out with TLD Registry when it was ... read more ...
Mon 13th October 2014
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ICANN Updates Agreement With PowerAuctions for Indirect New gTLD Contention Sets & Pays $120K More - ICANN announced tonight that it was updating its agreement with Power Auctions LLC, the company ICANN contracted with to operate auctions of Last Resort for new gTLD’s that received more than one application and were not able to settle the contention amongst themselves. ICANN announced today that it has Updated its agreement today with Power Auctions to provide for Indirect Contention Sets for which PowerAuctions will get paid another $120,000 We wrote about ICANN agreement with Power Auctions, ... read more ...
 
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Which ICANN sessions domainers should attend - A quick look at relevant sessions at this week’s ICANN conference. ICANN 51 formally kicks off today in Los Angeles. There are a lot of domain name investors in attendance, so I created a quick guide to sessions that might be interesting to them. Even if you aren’t in L.A., ICANN has excellent online participation tools that make it almost easier to attend virtually than in person. Here are my picks. Monday October 13 Welcome Ceremony (8:30 to 10:00, all times ... read more ...
Sat 11th October 2014
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October ICANN TLD auctions cringe to 3 after private deals - 10 contention sets settled at last minute, including three by Amazon.com. This month’s ICANN auctions of last resort for new to level domain names will settle just three contention sets, down from a schedule of 13 as of last month. The only three still on the schedule are .spot, .salon and .realty. Ten contention sets that were on the docket for resolution via ICANN auction this month have been settled: Amazon.com won .now, .deal and .save Donuts won .legal and ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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ICANN: Looks Like 2nd Round Of New gTLD Won’t Open For At Least 4 Years - ICANN released tonight a 27 page report entitled the “New gTLD Program Reviews and Assessments Draft Work Plan” (Draft Work Plan) which lays out the work required prior to initiating a subsequent application period for the New gTLD Program, taking into account the assessments anticipated in development of the Program.” “As of this writing, 404 new gTLDs have been delegated. A total of 1,168 applicants have been invited to contracting. Of those applications in string contention sets, 49% ... read more ...
 
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Latest domain name fraud spoofs ICANN, worse than domain renovation scam - Scammer sends fake renewal notices with goal of getting your credit card information. ICANN may have shut down Domain Registry of America for now, but new scams pop up just about every day. Joseph Peterson sent one example to me today that I haven’t seen before. He received an email with the subject line “something.com EXPIRATION!”, in which something.com matched one of his domains. Although his domain doesn’t expire until next year, the email claims it expires ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2014
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Google & Donuts Lose All 3 ICANN New gTLD Auctions: What Did We Learn Today? - ICANN published results of the first three ICANN Last Resort Auctions (there was an auction in June for a IDN String) tonight and we certainly learned a few things. Many people had the opinion that Google and Amazon would simply outbid all other applicants for all the strings just because they could. However Google wound up losing all three auctions as did Donuts. At the end of the day Google like all companies, have a budget for each string and won’t pay an unlimited amount of money for each just ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
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.Hotel field doubt CPE row decision - Companies question result of panel decision that eliminated them from competition for .hotel domain name. Six companies that saw their bids for the .hotel domain name die as a result of a Community Priority Evaluation decision in favor of HOTEL Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l have asked ICANN for information regarding the decision. The applicants filed a Document Information Disclosure Policy Request (DIDP) with ICANN on August 4. The DIDP requests resumes for people that ... read more ...
Wed 3rd September 2014
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ICANN TO Chat With GAC At ICANN 51 in LA, Whether 2 Character new gTLD Domains Should Be Allowed - In a letter to Heather Dryden Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Stephen D. Crocker, Chair ICANN Board of Directors made it clear that ICANN will be taking up the issue of allowing the registration of 2 character new gTLD domain names: Dear Heather, On behalf of the Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC), I thank you for your letter of 8 August 2014 regarding requests from new gTLD applicants and registries for the release of two- character domain names in the new gTLD namespace. ... read more ...