Since ICANN woke up to the very large conflicts between its policies and contracts and privacy law there have been some groups that have been pushing for ICANN to find a swift resolution. One of the more vocal among them was the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which is made up of representative of governments from… Continue reading ICANN’s Government Group Wants to Slow Whois Work
Category: policy
IEDR Policy Advisory Committee Election Results
The IEDR’s Policy Advisory Committee (PAC) was setup back in 2015. It’s made up of representatives from the registrar channel and various stakeholder groups of Irish business and society including the Irish Internet Association, The ISP Association of Ireland, The Irish Computer Society, the Irish government and others. (See PDF) For the registrars there are… Continue reading IEDR Policy Advisory Committee Election Results
Coming Soon IEDR Policy Board Elections
The .ie ccTLD has had a formal policy development process for the past few years. There’s now a fairly clear process that can be followed to either modify existing policy or to introduce new ones. You can read more about the policy development process IEDR follows here. One of the important parts of the entire… Continue reading Coming Soon IEDR Policy Board Elections
Gab.com Claims Free Speech Infringement While Many Others View Them as Hate Site
The controversial site gab.com has been shutdown by GoDaddy and given 2 days to move the domain elsewhere. The deadline expires at midnight tonight Irish time. In recent days the site has seen itself become increasingly disconnected as various service providers and online platforms including PayPal have shut the door to them. At present the… Continue reading Gab.com Claims Free Speech Infringement While Many Others View Them as Hate Site
Internet Watch Foundation Uses Hashes to Block Child Abuse Material
Last week during the ICANN meeting in Barcelona I attended a short presentation from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). Their mission is pretty simple: …eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online (source) Fortunately the presentation I was at did not include any of the actual material (which would have been illegal anyway) but even without seeing… Continue reading Internet Watch Foundation Uses Hashes to Block Child Abuse Material
APWG & M3AAWG Survey on Whois Challenges in InfoSec
The APWG and M3AAWG recently conducted a survey among their members and the broader infosec community to get an understanding of how WHOIS changes had impacted security investigators. The survey results come from just over 300 participants’ responses. Both organisations have formally written to ICANN and are asking that ICANN make several fundamental changes to… Continue reading APWG & M3AAWG Survey on Whois Challenges in InfoSec
Nominet GDPR Consultation Closes Tomorrow
Nominet, the registry for .uk, is conducting a consultation on how it will handle whois data once GDPR comes into force. It’s worth noted that the consultation is only related to the *.uk namespace and is not about any of the gTLD registries on the Nominet platform. While that is the main focus of the… Continue reading Nominet GDPR Consultation Closes Tomorrow
IE Domain Name Rules Changing Soon
Last year the .ie ccTLD opened a consultation process around “liberalisation”. As anyone who has tried to register a .ie domain name would know, compared to registering a .com or .eu the amount of paperwork and general bureaucracy associated with a .ie domain name has always been excessive. The consultation showed that there was strong… Continue reading IE Domain Name Rules Changing Soon
New Zealand’s ccTLD Proposes Flawed Whois Policy Change
In common with several other ccTLDs, the .nz ccTLD is split into two bodies. While the registry operator is NZRS, the policies are managed by a different entity The Domain Name Commission. They’ve recently been reviewing their whois related policies and have come up with a proposal which would allow private individuals to opt out… Continue reading New Zealand’s ccTLD Proposes Flawed Whois Policy Change
Australia’s ccTLD To Allow Direct Registrations
Australia’s country code (ccTLD) will allow “direct” registrations in the .au ccTLD in the future. Following on from a consultation process last year, the board of auDA has announced their intention to update the domain registration policy to allow people and organisations to register .au domain names. Up until now you could register under .com.au,… Continue reading Australia’s ccTLD To Allow Direct Registrations