ICANN's Board of Directors met yesterday evening and decided to cancel the upcoming meeting in Cancún, Mexico. The meeting will be held instead online, though this has never been done before. "This is a decision that the ICANN Board has been considering since the outbreak was first announced and it is one that we haven't taken lightly," said Maarten Botterman, ICANN Board … [Read more...] about ICANN Cancels Cancún Meeting Switches to Online Event
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Nordic Domain Days Announces 2020 Dates
Nordic Domain Days have announced the dates for the 2020 event. This year the even will be standalone and no longer linked to the big Swedish conference Internetdagarna. Whether this is a positive move or not is unclear. The event will be held in Stockholm on September 7th and 8th with a VIP dinner being held on the evening of the 6th. Ticket prices have been … [Read more...] about Nordic Domain Days Announces 2020 Dates
Eco and ICANN to Hold DNS Security Workshop
Eco and ICANN will be co-hosting a one day event in Cologne a the eco offices on April 3rd. The event's focus is DNS Security and will feature speakers from both ICANN and eco. Topics being covered will include: DNS Security from an ICANN perspectiveFuture of whois and RDAPDNS privacy including DoH and DoTDNS threat landscape Full details as well as registration … [Read more...] about Eco and ICANN to Hold DNS Security Workshop
Namescon Europe Chooses Budapest
NamesCon Global 2020 is being held in Austin, Texas next week. The event organisers have also just announced the location for the European edition of the domain event. NamesCon Europe will be held in Budapest, Hungary from August 6th to August 8th. The event will take place at the Budapest Marriott Hotel on the banks of the Danube. No details of the event schedule … [Read more...] about Namescon Europe Chooses Budapest
Domain Pulse 2020 Registration Open
Domain Pulse 2020 will be held in Innsbruck, Austria. The event, which is rotated between the Austrian, German and Swiss ccTLD managers, will take place on February 20th and 21st 2020. It's free to attend, but registration is obligatory. As you'd expect a lot of the event is held in German, though they usually provide pretty good simultaneous interpretation, so if you … [Read more...] about Domain Pulse 2020 Registration Open
Namescon Release Preliminary Agenda
NamesCon global will be held in Austin, Texas from January 29th to February 1st 2020. Yesterday they released the schedule, or at least a preliminary version of it. So you can see the timetable for the various talks and sessions, though details like who is speaking etc., are still missing in many cases. There'll be sessions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with the event … [Read more...] about Namescon Release Preliminary Agenda
IGF 2020 to be Held in Katowice, Poland
The 2019 IGF drew to a close this Friday afternoon in Berlin, Germany. The 15th IGF will be hosted by the government of Poland who have chosen to hold the event in Katowice, Poland from November 2nd to November 6th. This year's event drew 3406 participants from 161 countries. No details of the 2020 event have been released so far, so if you're interested in attending … [Read more...] about IGF 2020 to be Held in Katowice, Poland
ICANN Chooses Puerto Rico for 2022 Meeting
The ICANN AGM wrapped up in Montréal earlier this week. As usual the Board held several meetings over the course of the week and during one of them they signed off on the organisation returning to San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2022. ICANN 73 San Juan Puerto Rico will be March 2022, which is the "forum" meeting, which is usually smaller in terms of attendance numbers. Over … [Read more...] about ICANN Chooses Puerto Rico for 2022 Meeting
Italian IGF to be Held in Turin
While the IGF itself will be held in Berlin next month there are multiple national and regional IGF events that take place over the course of the year. Today the UK IGF is taking place in London, for example. Next week Italy's IGF will be held in Turin at the Politecnico di Torino. The event's schedule is now available online and, as with other national IGFs, will be … [Read more...] about Italian IGF to be Held in Turin
LGBTIQ Rainbow Network to Kick Off at Montréal ICANN
The ICANN Community is fairly diverse. At the public meetings people from the four corners of the globe come together to discuss and debate internet governance and related topics. It's nice to see that several members of the ICANN community have been quietly working on a "Rainbow Network" for ICANN's LGBTIQ and allies / friends. At the upcoming meeting in Montréal there … [Read more...] about LGBTIQ Rainbow Network to Kick Off at Montréal ICANN