While most of the comments on the SSAC report on “dotless domains” are supportive of the recommendations one of them is completely opposed. Rolf Larsen of CloudNames wants SSAC to recommend a rewrite of the protocols! Instead of trying to force the dotbrand owners to not use their TLD like they would want to, [...]
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CoCCA Ploughs Ahead With Policy Changes
CoCCA is implementing a number of significant policy changes effective 7th November. The changes, which were only announced today, will impact registrations in several cctlds, namely: .af .cx .gs .gy .ht .ki .ms .nf .sb You can read about the actual changes here, but basically they’re going to be sending lots of emails to registrants [...]
ICANN Seeks Input On Issues Surrounding Domain Transfers
ICANN’s domain name transfer policy, which is abbreviated to IRTP, is undergoing a series of reviews. To date two of those reviews have taken place. IRTP A is finished, while IRTP B’s recommendations are currently being processed. The next review is, logically, “C” and the preliminary issues report is now available for public comment ie. [...]
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 [...]
ICANN Hires New CSO – Jeff Moss
ICANN has apparently hired Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent) as CSO. Moss is a well known figure in the internet security community and was founder of Black Hat and the Def Con conferences. However isn’t Moss a bit conflicted? Isn’t he on one of the review teams? So how can he work for ICANN whilst [...]
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