Category: icann

Cloud Registry’s Calendar For ICANN Toronto Is Now Available

The guys in Cloud Registry have made available a “sane” iCal feed of the ICANN Toronto timetable You can grab it here They’ll try their best to keep it up to date, but it’s a free service to the ICANN community, so you get what you pay for 🙂 I’d recommend following them on Twitter… Continue reading Cloud Registry’s Calendar For ICANN Toronto Is Now Available

Article 29 Working Party Deem RAA Asks In Violation of EU Law

The Article 29 Working Party has written to ICANN to express their concerns about some of the “asks” being tabled by law enforcement in the RAA negotiations. They focus on two areas of contention: Annual re-verification of contact details Data retention In both instances they find that the “asks” are in violation of EU law.… Continue reading Article 29 Working Party Deem RAA Asks In Violation of EU Law

New ICANN Boss Rejigs Management

ICANN’s new CEO Fadi Chehadé started working full-time for ICANN yesterday. His first order of business? Rejigging the organisation’s management structures and bringing in new execs. It’s going to take time to fully understand the implications and the impact of the changes that were made in yesterday’s announcement, and you can probably expect to see… Continue reading New ICANN Boss Rejigs Management

Cloudnames CEO Expects ICANN To Rewrite Internet Protocols

While most of the comments on the SSAC report on “dotless domains” are supportive of the recommendations one of them is completely opposed. Rolf Larsen of CloudNames wants SSAC to recommend a rewrite of the protocols!     Instead of trying to force the dotbrand owners to not use their TLD like they would want to,… Continue reading Cloudnames CEO Expects ICANN To Rewrite Internet Protocols

ICANN Announce TLD Application Change Request Process and Criteria

Shortly after ICANN announced the new TLD applications list it became evident that some applicants may have made mistakes in their applications. For the last couple of months there has been a lot of chatter in the ICANN community about how ICANN would handle changes to the submitted applications. Finally this morning ICANN has announced… Continue reading ICANN Announce TLD Application Change Request Process and Criteria

Google Withdraws 3 New TLD Applications

4 new tld applications including 3 from Google have been withdrawn

Google has withdrawn 3 of its new TLD applications. Its applications for .and, .are and .est are now listed as “withdrawn” on the new TLD application status page: As Kevin pointed out, the three strings break the rules, as they appear on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 list and are the codes for the United Arab… Continue reading Google Withdraws 3 New TLD Applications

ICANN 47 Confirmed For Durban South Africa

ICANN’s 47th public meeting will take place in Durban, South Africa from 14th to 19th July 2013. The meeting location was confirmed in the most recent ICANN board minutes. The .za Domain Name Authority will be the local hosts. Here’s the relevant snippet from the board resolution: Whereas, ICANN intends to hold its second Meeting… Continue reading ICANN 47 Confirmed For Durban South Africa

Dotless Domains Deemed A Bad Idea

ICANN’s security and stability committee (SSAC) recently issued a report on “dotless” domain names. These would be where the domain name is the extension – so instead of having $thing.$extension you would find $extension by itself. As the report (PDF) explains, there are quite a few technical issues with the concept of no domain extension.… Continue reading Dotless Domains Deemed A Bad Idea

Dot Nxt Cancelled

Rumours were flying around last night that the Dot Nxt conference scheduled for London next week had been cancelled again. Michael Berkens posted about the rumour over on his blog. Now this appears to have been confirmed by one of the attendees: It’s official. The Dot-Nxt conference has been cancelled. No refunds. Very disappointing #Fail… Continue reading Dot Nxt Cancelled

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