Jean-Francois Baril was interviewed by Brad White earlier this week about the Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services's final report. The EWG, which was formed in early 2013 was tasked with reviewing the current whois system and to come up with an alternative. Jean-Francois explains what the report does, why it was done and also touches on some of the issues the … [Read more...] about Video: Jean-Francois Baril on EWG Final Report
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Commonwealth DNS Forum at #ICANN50 Venue
If you're heading to London for the ICANN meeting at the end of the month you might consider going over a couple of days early for the Commonwealth DNS Forum. The event is being organised by The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), ICANN and Nominet. If you come from a Commonwealth country then the event is free, otherwise it's £499.00 Full details and … [Read more...] about Commonwealth DNS Forum at #ICANN50 Venue
ICANN Publishes Full Schedule For London Meeting #ICANN50
The full schedule for ICANN's 50th public meeting, which is being held towards the end of the month, was published today. The event runs from Thursday June 19th until Friday June 27th. While that may seem long, in reality most attendees focus on the 4 days between June 22nd and June 26th. On a call with community leaders last week ICANN's CEO Fadi Chehadé said that this … [Read more...] about ICANN Publishes Full Schedule For London Meeting #ICANN50
ICANN’s Registrar Extranet Taken Offline Due to Security Issues
ICANN announced late last night that they had taken RADAR, which is essentially an extranet for registrars, offline due to security issues. Here's the official announcement: ICANN has taken its registrar contact information database (RADAR) offline temporarily. This action was taken as a precautionary measure after it was learned that an unauthorized party viewed data … [Read more...] about ICANN’s Registrar Extranet Taken Offline Due to Security Issues
Help ICANN Fix Whois Conflicts With Data Privacy Law!
ICANN has opened a comment period in relation to whois conflicts with local law / data privacy law. Of course anytime ICANN, or anyone else, tries to make any changes to whois policy there are issues. Whois is, for a variety of reasons, an emotive subject. One of the areas that Article 29, several registries located in the EU and a number of registrars (including … [Read more...] about Help ICANN Fix Whois Conflicts With Data Privacy Law!
OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format
OVH, a French registrar and hosting provider, has been sent a breach notice by ICANN. The registrar had not updated its whois format to be compliant with the 2013 RAA. So for example, a whois lookup on ovh.net currently returns: # local time : Friday, 16-May-2014 15:22:25 CEST # gmt time : Friday, 16-May-2014 13:22:25 GMT # last modify : … [Read more...] about OVH Pulled Up By ICANN Due To Whois Format
Welsh New TLDs To Launch September
Nominet are involved in several new TLDs, but they are going to be running the new TLDs for Wales. Earlier today Nominet confirmed the launch date for both .cymru and .wales - September 1st 2014. The launch will be done in phases with general availability (GA) being planned for Q1 2015 Here's the launch phases: One of the challenges Nominet faces with .wales and … [Read more...] about Welsh New TLDs To Launch September
Chinese Registrar Bizcn Hit With Breach Notice
Chinese registrar BizCN.com has been hit with a breach notice by ICANN. The registrar might not have exactly a "stellar" reputation in certain circles as it's often associated with "rogue online pharmacies" and other forms of online abuse. ICANN's letter to BizCN outlines a number of issues associated with a couple of domains specifically rapetube.org … [Read more...] about Chinese Registrar Bizcn Hit With Breach Notice
Small French Registrar Smacked by ICANN Compliance
A small French registrar based in Paris has been sent a breach notice by ICANN's compliance team. Mistername appears to be a very small registrar and from what I can gather has less than 100 names on its accreditation (if it has more then I'm obviously looking in the wrong place!). The Mistername site is incredibly rudimentary and seems to consist of only a couple of … [Read more...] about Small French Registrar Smacked by ICANN Compliance
NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN
NameCheap has been sent a breach notice by ICANN's Compliance department. The notice, which was sent yesterday, shows that ICANN has been trying to get a response from NameCheap since the middle of March of this year. NameCheap, apparently, is not meeting its contractual obligations to: keep data about domain name registrants and their dealings with NameCheap list … [Read more...] about NameCheap Gets Slapped By ICANN