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 IP address was linked to. Sure, it "worked", but it was far from ideal. Every registry … [Read more...] about Whois is Officially Dead (Bonus – so is the fax!)
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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 March 2020, but pulled the plug on … [Read more...] about 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 Göran Marby, who had been the organisation's CEO for the last 6 plus years was gone and had been replaced by Sally Costerton.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 to hold the top role in the organisation. … [Read more...] about 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 alone. The ALAC also wrote to ICANN's Board formally about the waiver (full text … [Read more...] about 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 "absolute terms and normalized … [Read more...] about 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 I have had to review hundreds of contracts and agreements over the past 20 odd … [Read more...] about 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 is The World Forum in the Hague. Amsterdam's Schipol airport is a … [Read more...] about Vaccinations & Face Masks Required for ICANN Meeting
ICANN Refuses Ukrainian Request to Pull Russian Internet Domains
As I mentioned earlier this week Ukrainians had requested that ICANN (and RIPE) take a variety of actions that would effectively have knocked Russia off the public internet. RIPE NCC's Board issued a statement to reiterate its neutral stance. Now ICANN, via its CEO Göran Marby, has issued a formal reply (PDF). It's as I'd have expected. It's polite, yet firm. On … [Read more...] about ICANN Refuses Ukrainian Request to Pull Russian Internet Domains
Ukrainians Call for Russia to be Pulled from Public Internet
One of the Ukrainian representatives to ICANN's Government Advisory Council (GAC) has sent a very broad sweeping request to ICANN and the IANA demanding that they essentially help to knock Russia off the internet. Apparently they're also writing to RIPE with similar requests. The letter, which was shared on Twitter by Bill Woodcock, is addressed to ICANN's CEO Göran Marby as … [Read more...] about Ukrainians Call for Russia to be Pulled from Public Internet
ICANN Releases Open Source RDAP Compliance Tool
ICANN has released the code for an RDAP conformance tool. The tool was developed for ICANN by Viagénie, who had already released a mobile RDAP client. It's good to see that the code is being released as open source under an Apache license. Both registries and registrars in the gTLD world are contractually obliged to run RDAP servers. Eventually these will replace whois … [Read more...] about ICANN Releases Open Source RDAP Compliance Tool