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ICANN 45 Toronto Venue Announced

ICANN normally announces details of the next meeting towards the end of the most recent one, so at the end of ICANN 43 they published information on ICANN 44. However for ICANN 45 (Toronto) people can already peruse the meeting site and book hotel rooms etc., The venue for the 45th meeting is the Westin [...]

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Registrations Open For .Nxt In London

The London edition of the .Nxt conference is now open for registration. I previously mentioned the draft agenda. Full details here

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ICANN 44 Registrations Open

The 44th ICANN meeting will take place from June 24th to June 29th 2012 in Prague. Registrations opened earlier this evening, as the 43rd ICANN meeting draws to a close. The June meeting will be hosted by the Czech ccTLD registry and was not without some controversy The local hosts have also launched their own [...]

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Dot Nxt London Draft Schedule

Kieren over at Dot Nxt has published a draft schedule for their London event. The venue for the London conference is the Victoria Park Plaza The event is being held in the week running up to the ICANN meeting in Prague and they’re still looking for both speakers and sponsors.  

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New TLD Event In Switzerland

Switch, the .ch registry, and several other organisations are organising an event in Berne, Switzerland on new TLDs. The event site includes basic information about the day, but is lacking information on speakers .. Registration is free Related articles New TLD Event To Be Held In Bulgaria (internetnews.me) 4th International conference for ccTLD registries and [...]

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DomainForum in Sofia Focuses On NewTLDs

DomainForum is being held today in Sofia, Bulgaria with a firm focus on newTLDs. The event was opened by one of the Bulgarian ministers who spoke about Bulgaria’s open policy towards the internet. ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom was the opening speaker and the rest of the day’s speakers is varied (disclosure – I’m one of [...]

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RIPE Members Vote To Continue RPKI Work

RIPE 63 is on this week in Vienna, Austria. Yesterday evening saw the General Meeting where members were asked to vote on a number of motions. While some of the motions were more formalities than anything else, the votes on RPKI and the membership fee structure for 2012 provoked some emotive debate. As a member [...]

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ICANN 43 Costa Rica Regisrations Open

With ICANN 42 Dakar closing yesterday registrations have now opened for the next public ICANN meeting in Costa Rica. The meeting is being held in March, which is in the middle of the new TLD application window.

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ICANN 42 Dakar

ICANN 42 Kicks Off This Weekend

The 42nd public ICANN meeting officially opens next Monday, but, as usual, a cursory glance at the event schedule shows a different story. GNSO, At-Large, GAC and other stakeholders will be meeting from 9am (local time) on Saturday onwards. What’s on the menu for this meeting? With the launch date for newTLDs announced don’t expect [...]

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4th International conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe Schedule Finalised

The final schedule for the 4th International conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe which is being held in Serbia in September has been published. The speakers for the event include ICANN staff, CENTR, Afilias, registrars, registries, ccTLD managers. It should be an interesting event judging by the lineup (Disclosure [...]

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SIDN Internet Awards 2011

SIDN Launch 2011 Awards

SIDN, the .nl ccTLD registry, has launched the 2011 SIDN Internet Awards.   The awards will be presented at the event in November under 5 different categories: Government and citizens in dialogue The power of the network A secure internet The internet and the environment Knowledge transfer in the digital world Full details and the [...]

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New TLD Event To Be Held In Bulgaria

With the countdown towards the opening of the application window on new TLDs next January draws closer the number of new TLD related events is growing. In November there will be a one day event on new TLDs in Sofia, Bulgaria.   At the moment the timetable covers topics such as: intellectual property IDNs IPv6 [...]

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ICM Registry Getting Into Bed With Domainers?

Is ICM Registry trying to win over domainers? According to an announcement earlier this afternoon ICM will be the overall Diamond Sponsor for T.R.A.F.F.I.C in October. The event’s organiser, Rick Schwartz, obviously expects some negative backlash from the announcement as in his email he states: We know this may be met with some amount of [...]

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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

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ICANN 42 Dakar

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.

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