AFNIC’s CEO Mathieu Wiell and Isabel Toutaud will be holding a webcast this Friday from 11am to 12 (CET). The session will cover a number of topics including: the change in procedure for registering listed terms (banned words, reserved words), the new dispute resolution procedure, access to the list of domain names registered under the… Continue reading AFNIC To Hold Webcast On Registry Changes
Month: June 2011
CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!
If you attend ICANN meetings, or even just peruse the meeting schedule, you’ll realise that it’s a very full schedule. Trying to be in all the correct meetings on the timetable, combined with all the “unofficial” ones can be a nightmare to organise And ICANN’s meeting schedule is still not available in a “sane” format.… Continue reading CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!
New TLD Advocates Circulate Open Letter / Petition To ICANN Board
Next week’s ICANN meeting in Singapore could herald the official launch of the new TLD process. ICANN’s board might decide to give the entire thing a “green light”. Of course it’s not that simple. The GAC isn’t exactly impressed with ICANN, the US definitely isn’t and the IP lobby is still more than a little… Continue reading New TLD Advocates Circulate Open Letter / Petition To ICANN Board
Irish Registrar Suggests Alternate Father’s Day Gift
Irish domain name registrar and hosting provider Blacknight is pushing discounted .me domain names as an alternative to the more traditional Father’s Day gifts. Blacknight (http://www.blacknight.com) are helping to make your Father’s Day a success by offering .Me domains at €4.99. Surprise your father by registering a “Dadsname.me” (http://dadsname.me/) domain name. ME is one of… Continue reading Irish Registrar Suggests Alternate Father’s Day Gift
US Trademark Office Rejects Application For .Music
Domains and trademarks. Always an “interesting” topic. This time round the US trademark office has rejected a trademark application for .music
Only 6 ICANN Comment Periods Open
Normally in the weeks prior to an ICANN public meeting there is a buzz of activity as documents need to be submitted to meet the deadlines before the public meeting. While this has happened as usual and the deadline is still open until Tuesday for the GNSO council meeting on 22nd June, there… Continue reading Only 6 ICANN Comment Periods Open
Some Considerations For New TLD Operators From A Registrar Perspective
The “hot topic” at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Singapore will, of course, be whether or not the new TLDs will actually launch or not. Sure, they’ll launch at some point, but ICANN has been pushing to make the big announcement at Singapore. There has been a lot written over the last couple of years… Continue reading Some Considerations For New TLD Operators From A Registrar Perspective
ICANN 41 Schedule
If you’re planning on either attending the ICANN 41 meeting in Singapore or participating remotely here is the schedule As usual the meeting doesn’t officially start until Monday, but there is a very busy schedule of meetings from Saturday morning onwards. The schedule is “subject to change” and if the last meeting is… Continue reading ICANN 41 Schedule
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… Continue reading Why Won’t ICANN Answer Questions?
IEDR To Change WHOIS Service
The IEDR will be changing how their whois server “rate limits” queries starting June 20th. From June 20th onwards they will be using an approach similar to that adopted by Nominet. The number of queries per IP will remain unchanged at 100 per day for the public.