The preliminary full schedule for the 55th ICANN public meeting has been published. The meeting, which is scheduled from March 5 – 10, will be held at the Palmeraie Conference Centre in Marrakech, Morrocco. ICANN 55 is the first meeting under ICANN’s “future meeting strategy“. The new way of approaching the meetings means that instead of having… Continue reading ICANN 55 Marrakech Schedule Published
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Republican Presidential Candidate Upset With ICANN CEO
Republican senator and US presidential candidate Ted Cruz is not very happy with ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade. In a letter from Cruz dated today Cruz has some pointed questions for Chehade in relation to his involvement with a recent meeting in China. Here’s the letter in full: [spiderpowa-pdf src=”https://www.internetnews.me/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20160203_FadiChehadeLetter.pdf”]20160203_FadiChehadeLetter The IANA transition has been raised… Continue reading Republican Presidential Candidate Upset With ICANN CEO
Fadi Chehade To Leave ICANN on March 12th
ICANN’s current CEO and President Fadi Chehadé has put out a Christmas greeting on behalf of ICANN. It runs to just over 4 minutes and talks mostly about the IANA transition. However he also declares in the video that his last date at ICANN will be March 12th 2016 (around 2 minutes in): Who will be… Continue reading Fadi Chehade To Leave ICANN on March 12th
Want To Be The CEO of ICANN?
ICANN needs a new CEO. The current CEO has tendered his resignation and will be vacating the position early in 2016. So who is going to replace him? Will the new CEO be American? Will they be a woman? What kind of background will they have? While nobody has the answers to any of those… Continue reading Want To Be The CEO of ICANN?
IANA Explained [Video]
Unless you’ve been hiding under for the last few months you’ll know that the IANA transition is a hot topic in internet governance circles Of course while there has been numerous meetings, thousands of emails, more meetings, media coverage and plenty of conversations about the topic, there are probably still quite a few people who… Continue reading IANA Explained [Video]
Animated Vint Cerf Explains ICANN and the IANA Transition
Vint Cerf is one of the fathers of the internet. So when he sits us all down, metaphorically speaking, to tell us about his child it might be worth listening. This short video explains how the internet’s address book works ie. how domains map to numbers (IP addresses) and who runs it all. As well… Continue reading Animated Vint Cerf Explains ICANN and the IANA Transition
ICANN Hires CTO
In the run up to the ICANN meeting in London, the organisation announced yesterday that they were hiring a CTO. It may seem a little bit odd that ICANN didn’t have a CTO, so filling that gap was long overdue. The new hire is an old hand in DNS industry circles – David Conrad: Conrad… Continue reading ICANN Hires CTO
Former ICANN Board Member To Congress – ICANN Needs Oversight
Karl Auerbach has written a quite long but very detailed and well thought out letter to Congress. It’s not clear which members of Congress were sent the letter. Karl Auerbach is a former member of ICANN’s board and is probably best remembered by many as having taken ICANN to court (and winning) in order to… Continue reading Former ICANN Board Member To Congress – ICANN Needs Oversight
ICANN Rolling Out New Site
It’s that time again – yet another new iteration of the ICANN website … This time instead of simply “throwing the switch” ICANN are rolling out the site in phases .. According to ICANN’s Chris Gift the new site is going to be a big improvement: “We had three objectives for the new site: improve… Continue reading ICANN Rolling Out New Site
.Pw Announce Launch Plans and Add Whois Server
We mentioned the plans to relaunch .pw recently. Since then the .pw team have been quite active. The new registry site is now live and includes information about the launch, with the dates of the various periods ie. sunrise, landrush and general availability. Their IANA entry was also updated earlier today to include the new… Continue reading .Pw Announce Launch Plans and Add Whois Server