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Art. 29 Data Protection Working Party To ICANN – Maybe You’re Hard Of Hearing?

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ICANN has been sent another letter by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. However it still isn't on ICANN's correspondence page - I  found it on the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party's site. The letter, which was signed by all 28 members and represents the legal position of all 28 member states of the European Union, is diplomatic, but pretty clear. Short … [Read more...] about Art. 29 Data Protection Working Party To ICANN – Maybe You’re Hard Of Hearing?

High Profile Sports Site Suspended Due To 2013 RAA

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Under the terms of the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement registrars are obliged to conduct email verification both on new domain registrations and if there are any changes made to a domain's registration details. For those of us in the industry we suspected and feared that the changes could and would lead to issues and headaches. And it looks like it's already happened … [Read more...] about High Profile Sports Site Suspended Due To 2013 RAA

ICANN Opens Hotel Reservations for London Meeting

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ICANN has quietly launched the site for this summer's meeting in London. If you're a domain geek (and since you're reading this site you probably are .. ) you might notice that the URL structure has changed. Up until now ICANN was using $city$meetingnumber.icann.org whereas now they're using meetings.icann.org/$meetingnumber I don't know if that is a significant change … [Read more...] about ICANN Opens Hotel Reservations for London Meeting

Registrar Linked To Scott Richter Gets Slapped

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ICANN's Compliance team have sent a breach notice to registrar Dynamic Dolphin. Why? They've got three issues with them: Legal issues with company officers Failure to comply with the domain transfer policy (IRTP) Not providing registration agreements to registrants The first one, however, is probably the "meatiest" of the lot. Scott Richter has a rather … [Read more...] about Registrar Linked To Scott Richter Gets Slapped

ICANN Publish Data Retention Waiver Details

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ICANN has published details of the process that registrars signing the 2013 RAA will need to follow in order to be granted a waiver. Under the 2013 contract registrars will have to collect and retain a lot more data in relation to their customers, which could be in conflict with national laws governing data protection and data privacy. The process that ICANN has outlined … [Read more...] about ICANN Publish Data Retention Waiver Details

ICANN Suspends Registrar ALL New Registrations & Transfers Blocked

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Under the 2009 RAA ICANN was given a number of new "powers" to wield against registrars that do not comply with the RAA and ICANN policy. One of the new "tools", to borrow Compliance's terminology, is the ability to suspend a registrar. Effectively what this means is that instead of sending warnings (breach notices) and more warnings and then terminating the registrar … [Read more...] about ICANN Suspends Registrar ALL New Registrations & Transfers Blocked