ICANN’s 3rd meeting of 2024 will be held in Istanbul. Istanbul will be the host for the organisation’s 3rd meeting of 2024, which is also its AGM. The other locations chosen for 2024 are: San Juan, Puerto Rico in March 2024 Kigali, Rwanda in June You can see the locations and dates for all past… Continue reading ICANN Chooses Istanbul for 2024 AGM
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ICANN Hamburg Schedule Published
The full schedule for the upcoming ICANN meeting in Hamburg has been published. ICANN’s 3rd meeting of 2023 is being held later this month in the German city of Hamburg. As it’s the 3rd and final meeting of the year it’s also the organisation’s AGM. While that might not sound exciting, and really isn’t unless… Continue reading ICANN Hamburg Schedule Published
ICANN Chooses Rwanda for 2024 Summer Meeting
ICANN holds three meetings a year and usually rotates them by geographic region. This year’s meetings are being held in Mexico, USA and Germany, which means that North America gets two meetings, while Latin America and Caribbean, Asia etc all got none. Next year, however, things will change a little with the organisation holding its… Continue reading ICANN Chooses Rwanda for 2024 Summer Meeting
Whois is Officially Dead (Bonus – so is the fax!)
For the last few years registries of both names and numbers have been rolling out new technologies. One of the areas that was long due an upgrade was the protocol for displaying registration data. For the past 30 or so years both names and numbers have used “whois” to tell you who a domain or… Continue reading Whois is Officially Dead (Bonus – so is the fax!)
ICANN’s Cancún Meeting Was Almost Normal
ICANN 76 was held in Cancún, Mexico last week. While the event was not without its issues the attendance numbers were quite high with “on site” attendees outnumbering “remote” participants. ICANN’s Interim CEO Sally Costerton published a brief blog post with some numbers: ICANN had originally planned to hold a meeting in Cancún back in… Continue reading ICANN’s Cancún Meeting Was Almost Normal
ICANN Gets First Female CEO
ICANN made what could be conservatively described as a surprise announcement last night. Göran Marby, who had been the organisation’s CEO for the last 6 plus years was gone and had been replaced by Sally Costerton. While Sally Costerton’s position is officially Interim President and CEO it still means that she is the first female… Continue reading ICANN Gets First Female CEO
ICANN Still Insisting Their Waiver is “Normal”
Prior to the ICANN meeting in The Hague I wrote a couple of times about their insane waiver. I wrote to ICANN’s CEO and the Chair of the ICANN Board, but that went nowhere. We even filed a reconsideration request along with the .na domain registry, but that was also rejected. And we were not… Continue reading ICANN Still Insisting Their Waiver is “Normal”
DNS Abuse Trending Down Says ICANN
According to an ICANN press release DNS Abuse is trending downwards. The assertion is based on data from a recently published report (pdf) from ICANN’s CTO office. Here’s the full release: In a recently published report, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) indicated that the global sum of DNS abuse dropped in… Continue reading DNS Abuse Trending Down Says ICANN
ICANN Demand You Sign Waiver to Attend Meeting
ICANN’s upcoming meeting in June, which I mentioned earlier, is due to be held in person in The Hague. In order to attend you will need to register online in advance. That’s not so odd. What is, however, is the very broad sweeping waiver they expect you to agree to. I’m not a lawyer, but… Continue reading ICANN Demand You Sign Waiver to Attend Meeting
Vaccinations & Face Masks Required for ICANN Meeting
ICANN is going ahead with its Hague meeting in June as a “hybrid” event. It’ll be the first “in person” ICANN meeting since autumn of 2019, so I suspect it will be quite busy, even though traditionally the “policy forum” meetings aren’t the most popular of the three annual meetings. The venue for the meeting… Continue reading Vaccinations & Face Masks Required for ICANN Meeting