Under the 2009 RAA ICANN was given a number of new "powers" to wield against registrars that do not comply with the RAA and ICANN policy. One of the new "tools", to borrow Compliance's terminology, is the ability to suspend a registrar. Effectively what this means is that instead of sending warnings (breach notices) and more warnings and then terminating the registrar … [Read more...] about ICANN Suspends Registrar ALL New Registrations & Transfers Blocked
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Humor: ICANN’s New Decision Tree
While the volume of material coming out from the various ICANN parody accounts on Twitter may have dropped considerably in the last few months, some of the content is hilarious. Here's one from @icannlegal - and no, it's definitely NOT ICANN's legal department https://twitter.com/icannlegal/status/378632760430055424 In case the Twitter account gets culled here's the … [Read more...] about Humor: ICANN’s New Decision Tree
Register.com Sent Breach Notice By ICANN
Register.com, which is part of the web.com group of companies, has been sent a breach notice by ICANN's compliance department. The notice, which I'm attaching below, covers a number of issues, including records for some domains, links to specific policies and data escrow. What's a little different with this notice is the angle that ICANN appears to be adopting. While … [Read more...] about Register.com Sent Breach Notice By ICANN
ICANN Labs Want A Panel At SXSW
Over the past year ICANN has been undergoing a period of change. With the appointment of a new CEO any organisation will undergo change, but when you combine that with other factors like the new TLD program, the new contracts for both registrars and registries, changes across the industry and much much more, it's easy to see how the organisation would be forced to … [Read more...] about ICANN Labs Want A Panel At SXSW
ICANN Hires Alexandra Dans as Comms Manager For Latin America / Caribbean
ICANN announced today that they've hired Alexandra Dans as Communications Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean. Ms Dans previously worked for LACNIC She's multi-lingual and speaks Spanish, French and English with some Portuguese. With ICANN's next meeting scheduled to be held in Buenos Aires in November filling the gap makes a lot of sense "My first priority … [Read more...] about ICANN Hires Alexandra Dans as Comms Manager For Latin America / Caribbean
Google’s .Cloud Application Coming Under Fire (Again)
I've written about Google and their "closed generic" applications several times over the last 18 months. I also had the pleasure of being on a discussion panel on the topic at the most recent ICANN meeting in Durban, South Africa. So it's pretty clear where I stand on the issue. So the latest letter to ICANN's board on the subject of Google's proposed changes to their … [Read more...] about Google’s .Cloud Application Coming Under Fire (Again)
ICANN Puts Final Nail In Coffin of DotConnectAfrica Bid
As most observers of ICANN know, there were two applicants for the .africa new TLD. The second applicant, dotConnectAfrica, did not have the broad support that a "geo" TLD would need in order to meet the criteria laid out in the ICANN newTLD application guidebook. Over the past few months dotConnectAfrica have tried every method imaginable, and a few that most wouldn't … [Read more...] about ICANN Puts Final Nail In Coffin of DotConnectAfrica Bid
Chinese Registrar Not Escrowing Data Correctly
ICANN's compliance team have been quite busy so far this year. In one of their most recently published breach notices against Chinese registrar Xin Net is getting "slapped" for "Repeated failure to escrow gTLD registration data pursuant to Section 3.6 of the RAA" Unlike other compliance actions where the registrar in question simply has not escrowed data, the case of Xin … [Read more...] about Chinese Registrar Not Escrowing Data Correctly
IEDR Publish 2012 Domain Figures
IEDR have published their latest annual report which covers the period up to the end of 2012. Here's a few of the highlights: Renewal rate of 86% Total .ie domains at year-end of 182,284, up 5.3% year-on-year New .ie domain registrations down 15% on 2011 By way of comparison the .no domain registry (Norway) currently has 588999 domains registered. In terms of … [Read more...] about IEDR Publish 2012 Domain Figures
Fadi Chehadé Is Apparently On Twitter
ICANN's President and CEO Fadi Chehadé is apparently on Twitter. You'd be forgiven for not knowing, as he's only tweeted once at time of writing: https://twitter.com/icann_president/status/354373185065582592 According to what I can see the account was created on April 21st of this year. Chehadé's predecessor was, and still is, a fairly active Twitter … [Read more...] about Fadi Chehadé Is Apparently On Twitter