This year's UK IGF will be held online again.The event will be held over two days October 20th and 21st and registration is now open.The agenda for the 2021 event covers:data protection gender based violencecyber crime environmental issuesonline safetyFull details and registration are on the official site here.Outcomes from national IGFs feed into the main … [Read more...] about UK IGF
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Nordic Domain Days Announce 2022 Dates
Nordic Domain Days was one of the many events that was cancelled due to the global pandemic. The event, which started out colocated with Internetdagarna, is coming back as an in person event in Stockholm and is now going it alone. Splitting away from the bigger conference it was part of means that the organisers will be able to focus the schedule on topics of interest to … [Read more...] about Nordic Domain Days Announce 2022 Dates
ICANN Won’t Meet in Person in 2021
ICANN officially announced its plans for the next meeting which was meant to be held in Seattle in October.It's going to be virtual. Again.I suspect that this will not sit well with some of the North American participants who would have been able to attend an "in person" event. However the situation globally is a lot less certain and most definitely not uniform. At time … [Read more...] about ICANN Won’t Meet in Person in 2021
Africa DNS Forum 2021 Registration Open
The 2021 edition of the Africa DNS Forum is being held online.The event will be held on July 27th and 28th via Zoom, as well as being streamed via Facebook.The theme for this year's event is "Evolving the DNS Ecosystem in Africa".Speakers and other details of the agenda have not been announced yet, but should be made available on the event's official site in the … [Read more...] about Africa DNS Forum 2021 Registration Open
ICANN Extends Travel Ban For Staff But Seattle Could Proceed
We are now well over a year into a global pandemic. While the vaccine rollout in some parts of the world has been going well we are still a very long way off a full return to any semblance of normality. Many countries are still imposing travel restrictions, both on their own citizens as well as travellers to those countries.It's not surprising that ICANN has officially … [Read more...] about ICANN Extends Travel Ban For Staff But Seattle Could Proceed
Registration for RIPE 82 Now Open
RIPE's 82nd public meeting will be held from May 17th to May 21st. In common with most events this year it's going to be 100% virtual.While the "in person" RIPE meetings normally come with a registration fee (which covers the lunches etc) the online events are free to attend.The preliminary schedule for the meeting is available here. A lot of the sessions are driven by … [Read more...] about Registration for RIPE 82 Now Open
No ICANN Face to Face Events Until After June
In a move that surprised absolutely nobody ICANN has formally extended their "travel ban" until the end of June 2021. Realistically I suspect that the suspension of travel and face to face events is going to be extended beyond June.In a blog post ICANN CEO Göran Marby outlined briefly the current state of play with respect to events, meetings and the ICANN offices. … [Read more...] about No ICANN Face to Face Events Until After June
ICANN’s Hague Meeting Now Virtual
In a move that surprised absolutely nobody ICANN has yet again announced that an upcoming event will be online only.ICANN's second meeting of the year is scheduled to take place in June. Originally this was meant to be held in The Hague, but due to the ongoing issues with COVID 19 it will be held online only.ICANN switched all of its events to online only last year in … [Read more...] about ICANN’s Hague Meeting Now Virtual
Middle East DNS Forum Goes Virtual for 2021
Last year the Middle East DNS Forum was meant to be taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Due to the pandemic the event was cancelled completely last year.For 2021 the Forum is being held online from April 5th to April 7th. It's still officially being held in Saudi Arabia, but it'll be 100% online.So what's on the agenda?There'll be a mix of topics with speakers … [Read more...] about Middle East DNS Forum Goes Virtual for 2021
NamesCon and CloudFest Independent Again
Back when events were being held in person CloudFest, which used to be known as World Hosting Days, was the largest event for hosting companies in the world. Other events like HostingCon had shrunk over the years until eventually they ceased to exist.In the domain name conference space NamesCon grew to be the "go to" event for anyone interested in the commercial aspects of … [Read more...] about NamesCon and CloudFest Independent Again