The IANA whois data for .ie was changed yesterday. While the “sponsoring organisation” is still listed as UCD, the other contacts have switched The old listing was: Hostmaster Team at University College University College Dublin Computing Services Computer Centre Belfield Dublin City hostmaster@ucd.ie And a similar entry for the technical contact. This is now listing [...]
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ICANN Wins IANA Contract Bid
The US government has renewed the IANA contract to ICANN. Full details in the official release. The IANA contract renewal had been haunting ICANN for the last year, so closure on this key aspect of internet plumbing should be greeted positively in most quarters. The EU, however, might not be too happy, as they’d already [...]
European Commission Likes New IANA Contract – Doesn’t Like US Only Bidding Process
In a move that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, the EU Commission has given a rather mixed welcome to the IANA bid. While they obviously like a lot of what they are seeing, they’re also not overly impressed with the contract only being open to US companies. Here’s the full text of their [...]
Why Won’t ICANN Answer Questions?
During the last public ICANN meeting in San Francisco there was a public forum. This is quite normal. Several people asked questions of the ICANN board, some were answered, others weren’t. Why not? Nigel Roberts from the Channel Isles registry asked the following (for the sake of clarity I’m republishing the entire section of the [...]
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