The IGF for 2022 is to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethopia this year. The event is scheduled to take place at the end of November from 28th November until December 2nd 2022. The event organiser plan to run it as a hybrid event, with a mix of both "on site" and "online" attendees and participants. Further details will be announced on the official IGF website. The call … [Read more...] about IGF 2022 to be Held in Addis Ababa
DNS Abuse Trending Down Says ICANN
According to an ICANN press release DNS Abuse is trending downwards. The assertion is based on data from a recently published report (pdf) from ICANN's CTO office. Here's the full release: In a recently published report, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) indicated that the global sum of DNS abuse dropped in "absolute terms and normalized … [Read more...] about DNS Abuse Trending Down Says ICANN
Nordic Domain Days Announces Schedule
Nordic Domain Days is being held in Stockholm next month on May 9th and 10th, with a kick off social event on the evening of May 8th. The event organisers have published the schedule for the two day event. The conference's first day is centred around the theme of "business", while day two has two tracks, one is an anti-abuse workshop, while the other is on the technical … [Read more...] about Nordic Domain Days Announces Schedule
PIR Gets Two New Board Directors
PIR (Public Interest Registry) run the .org domain name registry. They're owned by the Internet Society and it's ISOC who handle appointments to the PIR Board. Yesterday ISOC announced two new appointments to the PIR Board: Lena Beck Rørvig and Michael Silber. Here's the full release: The Internet Society today announced the appointment of Lena Beck Rørvig and … [Read more...] about PIR Gets Two New Board Directors
ICANN Demand You Sign Waiver to Attend Meeting
ICANN's upcoming meeting in June, which I mentioned earlier, is due to be held in person in The Hague. In order to attend you will need to register online in advance. That's not so odd. What is, however, is the very broad sweeping waiver they expect you to agree to. I'm not a lawyer, but I have had to review hundreds of contracts and agreements over the past 20 odd … [Read more...] about ICANN Demand You Sign Waiver to Attend Meeting
Vaccinations & Face Masks Required for ICANN Meeting
ICANN is going ahead with its Hague meeting in June as a "hybrid" event. It'll be the first "in person" ICANN meeting since autumn of 2019, so I suspect it will be quite busy, even though traditionally the "policy forum" meetings aren't the most popular of the three annual meetings. The venue for the meeting is The World Forum in the Hague. Amsterdam's Schipol airport is a … [Read more...] about Vaccinations & Face Masks Required for ICANN Meeting
EURid Announce New Head Honcho
EURid has announced who the new General Manager will be. Peter Janssen will be taking over as General Manager, replacing Marc Van Wesemael who is retiring later this year. Janssen is currently EURid's CTO and has been with the company since its formation to run the .eu ccTLD. Sandra Hoferichter, Chair of the Board says: “We are convinced that Peter’s long-standing … [Read more...] about EURid Announce New Head Honcho
LINX Suspends Two Russian Members due to Sanctions
On Friday LINX announced the suspension of two Russian members: Megafon (AS31133)Rostelecom (AS12389) In an email to LINX members Pieter Knook, LINX Chairman, explained that the decision to suspend the companies was based on legal advice. It's clear that LINX are doing some due diligence on members to see which other ones might be impacted by the current sanctions: The … [Read more...] about LINX Suspends Two Russian Members due to Sanctions
Donuts Offers “Extended Flexibility” to Ukrainian Registrants
Donuts, who also own Afilias, have contacted registrars to offer assistance with impacted registrants in Ukraine. Unlike during 2020 when many registries waived fees on RGP and other, concrete, things, this is pretty open. They're simply saying that they'll work with registrars to deal with issues caused by the war: It goes without saying–the people of Ukraine should not … [Read more...] about Donuts Offers “Extended Flexibility” to Ukrainian Registrants
Nominet Suspends Russian Registrars
Nominet has unilaterally decided to suspend all its Russian registrars. As far as I can tell there's no legal obligation on Nominet to take action against registrars based in Russia, but they've decided to suspend them. However they're also claiming that they don't want to impact existing registrations. With the Russian registrars suspended there's no way for them … [Read more...] about Nominet Suspends Russian Registrars