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ICANN Beijing Schedule Published

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The full schedule for the 46th ICANN public meeting in Beijing has been published. The schedule starts on the Thursday with GAC meetings and runs until Thursday's Public Forum. As is common with ICANN meetings the days are long, with many meetings scheduled to start before 8am local time. If you're not attending in person you'll be able to follow the meeting online, as … [Read more...] about ICANN Beijing Schedule Published

Nominet Launch Bullying and Trolling Education Campaign

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Nominet, the UK domain name registry, has launched an educational campaign on the impact of cyber-bullying and trolling via its educational site "Know the 'net". According to research conducted on their behalf 2 out of 3 teenagers have been affected, but most would not go to their parents or teachers for advice or help. Full details of the survey as well as advice for … [Read more...] about Nominet Launch Bullying and Trolling Education Campaign

Melbourne IT Sells Off Brand Services Division

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Melbourne IT has sold off its corporate domains business to CSC domains. They'd previously acquired the division in 2008 when they bought Verisign's DBMS business for US$50 million. The sale netted the company AU$152.5 million (approximately US$157 million, EUR120 million). Here's the full release: MELBOURNE, Australia – 12 March 2013 – Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) today … [Read more...] about Melbourne IT Sells Off Brand Services Division

New Domain Association Site Launched

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During the regional ICANN meeting in Amsterdam earlier this year there was a "side meeting" held by several companies in the domain name industry. The objective? To work on some form of strategy for marketing and education around the domain name industry and domains in general. The meeting was organised by Google's new TLD team, but there was a broad cross-section of both … [Read more...] about New Domain Association Site Launched

Registrar Negotiating Team Issues Statement On RAA

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Last night ICANN published a version of the RAA and related documents for public comment. While the Registrar Stakeholder Group's negotiating team (RrSG NT)  have been in talks on and off with ICANN staff for the last 18 months the publication of the documents at this time is felt to be premature by the RrSG NT. Here's the official statement: Registrar Stakeholder Group … [Read more...] about Registrar Negotiating Team Issues Statement On RAA

Google Bows To Pressure On Closed Generics

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The debate surrounding "closed generics", which we've covered several times in the past, has attracted a lot of attention in recent weeks. At the centre of the debate were a number of new TLD applications from large companies including Google, Amazon and others. Google had stated that they planned to establish a number of domain extensions and operate them as "walled … [Read more...] about Google Bows To Pressure On Closed Generics

ICANN Terminates Two More Registrars

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In the last couple of days ICANN has terminated two more registrars for breaching their contracts - CI Host (PDF) and Power Brand Center (PDF). CI Host seems to have vanished. Their listed website no longer works and the contact details that ICANN had for them are no longer valid - the offices are now occupied by another company! Using archive.org I was able to grab a … [Read more...] about ICANN Terminates Two More Registrars

5 Reasons Why Closed Generic New gTLDs Should Be Opposed

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I'm on the record multiple times over the last few months for my opinions on "closed generics". I first posted about it here back in June of last year: Big Brands Trying To Corner Generic Namespaces? Since then I've sent several letters to ICANN (supported by many others) and have been quoted and referenced in several articles on the subject including Politico.com: … [Read more...] about 5 Reasons Why Closed Generic New gTLDs Should Be Opposed