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ICANN Promotes Cyrus Namazi

ICANN announced yesterday that they have appointed Cyrus Namazi as Senior Vice President of the Global Domains Division (GDD). It’s a newly created position, as they’ve decided to discontinue the role of President of GDD. Since the departure of Akram Atallah, who left ICANN recently to head up Donuts, Namazi has been running GDD. The… Continue reading ICANN Promotes Cyrus Namazi

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Becky Burr Gets Second Term on ICANN Board

Becky Burr recently announced that she would be leaving Neustar to return to private practice. She currently serves on the ICANN Board in “Seat 13” which is appointed by the “contracted party house” (CPH) of the GNSO aka registries and registrars. Her current term ends at the 2019 AGM later this year. The CPH has… Continue reading Becky Burr Gets Second Term on ICANN Board

ICANN NomCom Extends Application Deadline

ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) has extended its application deadline to March 22nd 2019. This year’s NomCom will be choosing candidates for 10 open positions: ICANN Board of Directors x 3 PTI Board of Directors x 1 At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) x 3 GNSO Council x 2 ccNSO Council x 1 Full details on the application… Continue reading ICANN NomCom Extends Application Deadline

Universal Acceptance Testing Work Available

The Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) has put out a call for expressions of interest in testing website readiness for “universal acceptance”. The concept behind “universal acceptance” is that all domain extensions should work everywhere be that for signing up for products and services or sending and receiving email etc., So whether you are using… Continue reading Universal Acceptance Testing Work Available

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

ICANN Releases Detailed Data on Panamá Meeting

ICANN’s public meetings are held 3 times a year and rotate geographically. Over the years the number of attendees has mushroomed, but some meetings are more popular than others. That can be due to a number of factors: location time of year topics being discussed So in the run-up to the IANA transition there was… Continue reading ICANN Releases Detailed Data on Panamá Meeting

ICANN vs EPAG: ICANN Seeks Appeal Plus Pushes for ECJ Referral

As I predicted ICANN is pursuing its case against EPAG. They’re now not only appealing the case to a higher court in Germany, but are also trying to get the entire thing referred to the European Court of Justice. In an announcement late last night ICANN made it very clear what their intentions are. While… Continue reading ICANN vs EPAG: ICANN Seeks Appeal Plus Pushes for ECJ Referral

ICANN vs Epag / Tucows: German Court Rules Against ICANN

Last Friday ICANN took German registrar EPAG to court in Germany. German courts seem to be pretty fast, so instead of having to wait weeks or months to see how they’d rule, we’ve already got the answer. The German court in Bonn has ruled that EPAG (Tucows) is not obliged to collect extra contacts beyond… Continue reading ICANN vs Epag / Tucows: German Court Rules Against ICANN

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