Is AFNIC getting into social media and memes in a big way? They’ve already got a Facebook page, Twitter and are even pushing out infographics.. now it appears they’re trying to harness memes. This appeared on some social media sites earlier this morning: Sure, it’s not exactly “revolutionary”, but it’s a breath of fresh air [...]
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Cloud Registry’s Calendar For ICANN Toronto Is Now Available
The guys in Cloud Registry have made available a “sane” iCal feed of the ICANN Toronto timetable You can grab it here They’ll try their best to keep it up to date, but it’s a free service to the ICANN community, so you get what you pay for I’d recommend following them on Twitter for [...]
GoDaddy Suffers Massive Outage
GoDaddy is the world’s largest registrar and hosting provider. Earlier this evening they suffered a massive outage which appears to be related primarily to their DNS. However it is unclear if that is the issue and it is also unclear as to what is the cause. At the moment pretty much every tech blog on [...]
Where Is ICANN’s New CEO?
On Monday June 25th, as part of the Prague ICANN meeting, there is a slot on the schedule for the “CEO Farewell Reception”. Rod Beckstrom will be leaving ICANN. This is not news. It was announced (via Twitter) several months ago. What is “news” is more correctly the lack of it ie. the naming of [...]
Wikipedia To Go Dark In Protest Against SOPA
Obviously I’m not the only person who is more than a little cynical about SOPA, or the retraction / shelving, cal it what you will of the legislation. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has made it clear that he’s not considering SOPA “dead” until the proverbial fat lady sings. More coverage on Financial Times Related articles [...]
Sedo CEO To Step Down
Sedo’s CEO Tim Schumacher has announced that he will be stepping aside. The announcement came this afternoon via his Twitter account: After 11 years, I will soon retire as CEO of Sedo and transition to the supervisory board. What a change for both me personally and Sedo So who will be taking the reins [...]
So Who Exactly Is Bob Recstrum?
If you’re an ICANN “insider” and use Twitter then you’ve probably come across the user account @BobRecstrum, which is an obvious parody of Rod Beckstrom. The account has been active for the last few months (since March 26th 2011 according to the Twitter timeline and this site) I’ve spoken to several people who might know [...]
The Darker Side Of Domaining
Whenever a celebrity dies the media has a “feeding frenzy” and sales of anything related to the departed go through the roof. It happened with Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Patrick Swayze .. the list goes on and on. When Amy Winehouse died a few weeks ago the same kind of thing happened. Every single media [...]
So What’s Happening With ICANN’s Palo Alto Office?
Following on from the announcement last night that ICANN chief Rod Beckstrom would be stepping down next year there has been a lot of chatter going on via email, twitter, facebook and other media. One question that has been raised by a few people was very practical. What is going to happen to the Palo [...]
ICANN Community Reactions To Beckstrom Resignation
News of Rod Beckstrom’s departure spread across the ICANN and wider internet community last night and has been getting quite a bit of mileage on various industry and personal blogs and sites. Here are a few that I came across: Kieren McCarthy suggests (strongly) that ICANN fired Beckstrom Nigel Roberts has a few choice words [...]
ICANN Chief Announces Departure Via Twitter
ICANN’s CEO and President, Rod Beckstrom, has announced that he will be stepping down in July of next year. The announcement came via Twitter of all places, with a press release, presumably with more details, due sometime soon: I have decided to wrap up my service at ICANN July 2012. Press release soon. With the [...]
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