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What’s Going on With ICANN and GDPR? Join the Webinar to Find out

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The Internet Infrastructure Coalition and eco are hosting a webinar this afternoon on GDPR. With both organisations focussing on the internet infrastructure ecosystem the obvious focus of the webinar will be on ICANN and how they are dealing with GDPR. With only a few weeks until the May 25th deadline the internet overseer time has, effectively, run out. The presenters … [Read more...] about What’s Going on With ICANN and GDPR? Join the Webinar to Find out

Nominet GDPR Consultation Closes Tomorrow

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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 current consultation they're also using it as an opportunity to make a few … [Read more...] about Nominet GDPR Consultation Closes Tomorrow

ICANN DNS Symposium Heads to Montreal and Call for Proposals Open

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ICANN is holding the DNS Symposium this year in Montreal, Canada. The event will be held at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth on July 13th. Last year the event was colocated with the ICANN GDD Summit in Madrid, whereas this year it's a standalone one day event with the theme "Attention, Domain Name System: Your 30-year scheduled maintenance is overdue" If you're interested in … [Read more...] about ICANN DNS Symposium Heads to Montreal and Call for Proposals Open

European Commission Wants to Kill Off Thousands of EU Domains due to Brexit

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After the Brexit vote I posited that there could be an impact on EU registrants based in the UK. Over the past year the UK government has been engaged in negotiations with the EU to navigate the application of Article 50 and the UK's exit from the European Union. While there has been a lot of focus on issues like the customs union and the border between Ireland and Northern … [Read more...] about European Commission Wants to Kill Off Thousands of EU Domains due to Brexit

ICANN Writes to ALL European Union Privacy Authorities

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In what could be viewed as an unprecedented move, ICANN has written to each and every data protection authority in the European Union. Why? ICANN feels that there is uncertainty about how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) should impact registrars and registries specifically in relation to the collection, processing and retention of domain name registration … [Read more...] about ICANN Writes to ALL European Union Privacy Authorities

Baltic Domain Days to be Held in Riga, Latvia

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The Latvian city of Riga will play host to the first edition of "Baltic Domain Days" next month. The event will run over two days and is being organised in association with the .lv ccTLD registry, ICANN and the .ee and .lt domain registries. Registration for the event is 100% free, but is obligatory. The event agenda covers a number of topics including GDPR … [Read more...] about Baltic Domain Days to be Held in Riga, Latvia

IE ccTLD Removes “Claims” Policy and Liberalises

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The .ie ccTLD has changed its registration policies effective yesterday March 21st 2018. From yesterday registrants will only need to provide a "connection" to Ireland and, depending on whether they're a business or an individual, proof of identity. They've also added a more streamlined registration process for existing registrants, as they'll already have been … [Read more...] about IE ccTLD Removes “Claims” Policy and Liberalises

Donuts Acquires Legacy .Travel Domain Registry

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Andrew and Kevin both covered the acquisition of the .travel TLD by Donuts, which was announced earlier today. What will Donuts do with it? I suspect they'll try to make it as easy to register a .travel domain name as possible, though they might like to keep some level of "certification". What that'll look like is hard to say and what they'll be able to get out of either … [Read more...] about Donuts Acquires Legacy .Travel Domain Registry