ICANN have announced their implementation plans for the new AGP (Add Grace Period) Limits Policy The plan specifies that gTLD Operators (hereinafter referred to as “Operators”) must inform each of their accredited Registrars of the new Policy within the next 21 days and subsequently implement the Policy as soon as possible thereafter but no later… Continue reading ICANN Announces Deadlines for New AGP Policy
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ICANN Mexico
While the ink still dries on the press coverage of the most recent ICANN meeting in Cairo, the next one is already gearing up. The next ICANN public meeting will be held in Mexico city from March 1st to March 6th 2009. The Mexico meeting site is already online with basic information on the venue… Continue reading ICANN Mexico
ICANN Shares Even More Data With Users
ICANN may have its flaws, but transparency is one area where they have been making some fantastic progress. ICANN has just announced a range of new material available to the public via the “dashboard“ You can now easily see all sorts of statistics and graphs related to registry activity, finances and more. Pretty cool! Related… Continue reading ICANN Shares Even More Data With Users
ICANN Domain Tasting Deadline
Stephane has an interesting post on the possible end of domain tasting. While the debate around domain tasting has been going on for quite some time ICANN can be a very slow moving beast. In some ways it moves far too slow, but when you consider the range of different opinions that have to be… Continue reading ICANN Domain Tasting Deadline
ICANN Culls Registrar and Attempts To Offload Domains
As I’ve mentioned a few times in the past, ICANN takes a dim view of registrars who misbehave. EstDomains cropped up in the news a few times over the last few months, as their head honcho, Vladimir Tsastsin was embroiled in a number of legal issues in Estonia. ICANN finally sent EstDomains a notice of… Continue reading ICANN Culls Registrar and Attempts To Offload Domains
Name.com Picks Up Esoftwiz Domains
Over the last year ICANN has sought expressions of interest a number of times from accredited registrars to take over the domain portfolios of registrars that have lost their accreditation. The most recent bulk transfer was of Esoftwiz’s names to Name.com While Name.com will contact former Esoftwiz clients it’s always hard to know how accurate… Continue reading Name.com Picks Up Esoftwiz Domains
ICANN Slaps Joker.com and DNS.com.cn
If you have rules and regulations but don’t enforce them then there’s little point in having any rules or regulations in the first place. One of the criticisms that is often levelled at ICANN is with regard to compliance issues. There are a number of areas where ICANN accredited registrars maybe flounting the rules, but… Continue reading ICANN Slaps Joker.com and DNS.com.cn
ICANN Is Not A Free Lunch
ICANN meetings are meant to be open and accessible etc., etc., so there are funds available to help people attend. But what happens when people abuse the system? The ICANN Ombudsman issued a report about one such attempted abuse and it is abundantly clear that people “trying it on” will not get away with it.… Continue reading ICANN Is Not A Free Lunch
Crazy ccTLD Price Hikes?
Image via Wikipedia Jackie Liu’s post on CircleID raises some very interesting questions, though whether or not any answers will be forthcoming or not is a totally different matter. While a lot of ccTLDs are dropping their wholesale rates others are raising them (or have raised them). The problem, as Liu points out, is that… Continue reading Crazy ccTLD Price Hikes?
ICANN Are Hiring
ICANN’s blog can be a wonderful resource and source of news. Unfortunately I haven’t been keeping up to date with RSS feeds as much over the last couple of weeks, so I missed Kieren’s post: We need a translation expert – do you know one? As ICANN is an international organisation it has to be… Continue reading ICANN Are Hiring