ICANN is hiring for their registrar liaison team. The vacancy arose due to internal movement of current staff which was announced at the Singapore meeting. The job vacancy details are here, though there’s no indication of salary – or even salary range .. Related articles ICANN Names Steve Crocker as Chair of the Board (circleid.com) [...]
Archive | June, 2011
4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe
The .ru registry is organising the 4th International Conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe. This year it’s being held in Novi Sad, Serbia. Full agenda and other details will be made available in the coming weeks, but the current information is on the site
George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote
George Sadowsky voted against the launch of new TLDs in last Monday’s ICANN board meeting. I’d been meaning to re-read the transcript, as I found a lot of what he said was very well thought out and logical. Here it is: >>GEORGE SADOWSKY: Thank you, Peter. This is one of the most important votes in [...]
ICANN 42 Registrations Open
The site for ICANN’s next public meeting is now online. Dakar, Senegal will play host to the 42nd ICANN public meeting from 23-28 October 2011. You can now register to attend, get information about hotels and other practical information about the venue.
Neustar To Apply For .Neustar
Neustar have announced that they intend to apply for their own .brand TLD ie. .neustar
ICANN Board Votes in Favour of New TLDs
This morning’s board meeting in Singapore didn’t bring too many surprises. The board voted in favour of launching the new TLD program, though not all board members voted in favour. They’ve also put out a timeline for applications, which should make quite a few people happy. What is interesting is what the board members said [...]
D-Day For New TLDs?
Later this morning, during the ICANN meeting in Singapore, ICANN’s board will meet. This is not a “normal” board meeting, as it has only one item on the agenda: Consideration of New gTLD Program. That single line says so little and yet so much. For the last few years the new gTLD program [...]
EU Rep Refers to ICANN as “deaf or stupid”
Earlier this evening in Singapore the board of ICANN met with the GAC (representatives of governments). The meeting’s start was delayed by about 45 minutes and the entire thing ran over by about an hour. While it was evident that the relations between the GAC and board aren’t exactly “warm” there usually is a certain [...]
ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee On DNS Blocking
ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has published a paper on DNS Blocking. SSAC 50: DNS Blocking: Benefits Versus Harms is available for download in PDF here The paper isn’t very long and has a short list of points that people should be aware of when considering implementing DNS blocking: 1. The organization imposes [...]
Quick Overview Of Some Key Topics For ICANN 41
I posted this over on the company blog earlier today. Did I miss any really big ones? Related articles ICANN 41 Schedule (internetnews.me) Only 6 ICANN Comment Periods Open (internetnews.me) CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again! (internetnews.me)
AFNIC To Hold Webcast On Registry Changes
AFNIC’s CEO Mathieu Wiell and Isabel Toutaud will be holding a webcast this Friday from 11am to 12 (CET). The session will cover a number of topics including: the change in procedure for registering listed terms (banned words, reserved words), the new dispute resolution procedure, access to the list of domain names registered under the [...]
CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!
If you attend ICANN meetings, or even just peruse the meeting schedule, you’ll realise that it’s a very full schedule. Trying to be in all the correct meetings on the timetable, combined with all the “unofficial” ones can be a nightmare to organise And ICANN’s meeting schedule is still not available in a “sane” format. [...]
New TLD Advocates Circulate Open Letter / Petition To ICANN Board
Next week’s ICANN meeting in Singapore could herald the official launch of the new TLD process. ICANN’s board might decide to give the entire thing a “green light”. Of course it’s not that simple. The GAC isn’t exactly impressed with ICANN, the US definitely isn’t and the IP lobby is still more than a little [...]
Irish Registrar Suggests Alternate Father’s Day Gift
Irish domain name registrar and hosting provider Blacknight is pushing discounted .me domain names as an alternative to the more traditional Father’s Day gifts. Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) are helping to make your Father’s Day a success by offering .Me domains at €4.99. Surprise your father by registering a “Dadsname.me” (http://dadsname.me/) domain name. ME is one of [...]
US Trademark Office Rejects Application For .Music
Domains and trademarks. Always an “interesting” topic. This time round the US trademark office has rejected a trademark application for .music
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