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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… Continue reading ICANN Refuses Ukrainian Request to Pull Russian Internet Domains

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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… Continue reading Ukrainians Call for Russia to be Pulled from Public Internet

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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… Continue reading ICANN Releases Open Source RDAP Compliance Tool

ICANN Continues Virtual Meetings Ahead of Hybrid Switch

(Republishing due to a technical issue!) ICANN has announced that their first public meeting of 2022 will not be “in person” and that they will stick to the “virtual” format. They have, however, stated that they want their June meeting, which is scheduled to be held in The Hague, to take place with a “hybrid”… Continue reading ICANN Continues Virtual Meetings Ahead of Hybrid Switch

Some Changes at ICANN

ICANN’s CEO publishes updates on the organisation from time to time. Yesterday his update was in relation to some staff changes. David Conrad will be leaving ICANN at the end of September. He’s currently the organisation’s CTO and has been heavily involved in a variety of technical projects internally and externally. Marby’s blog post does… Continue reading Some Changes at ICANN

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ICANN’s NomCom Announces Selections

ICANN’s nominating committee is responsible for selecting people for a variety of positions across the various boards, councils and committees within ICANN. The number of appointments varies year on year, due to term lengths and other factors. This year’s appointments were announced yesterday: ICANN Board of Directors Edmon Chung, Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands Danko Jevtović,… Continue reading ICANN’s NomCom Announces Selections

ICANN Expands Contractual Waiver for Security Issues to Registrars

ICANN has announced that they are expanding the scope of contractual waivers for security issues to include registrars. That’s a bit of a mouthful, so I’ll try to unpack it a bit. Under normal circumstances both registrars and registries are bound by ICANN policies and contractual obligations. In simple terms this means that they only… Continue reading ICANN Expands Contractual Waiver for Security Issues to Registrars

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… Continue reading ICANN Extends Travel Ban For Staff But Seattle Could Proceed

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