The ICANN meeting in Nairobi starts officially next Monday. However, as is normally the case, by the time Monday rolls around people will already have been working since Saturday morning (if not earlier). All ICANN meetings seem to be surrounded by some bit of controversy and excitement, but the Nairobi meeting is possibly more dramatic than many others. The last attempt to … [Read more...] about ICANN Nairobi Kicks Off This Weekend – So What Is Cooking? .xxx , new TLDs and more
newtlds
Berlin The Latest New TLD Battleground?
If you've been following the newTLD process within ICANN over the last year or so you will have probably been aware of how slow and tortuous development has been. To recap, ICANN, which oversees domain names globally, announced that it was "opening up" the internet so that "anyone" could get the domain extension they wanted. Of course it's not really "everyone" and the process … [Read more...] about Berlin The Latest New TLD Battleground?
Informal Working Group Publish Report On New TLDs
In an interesting move several members of the ICANN community formed an "informal" Working Group to discuss the concept of "expressions of interest" in new TLDs. This all happened very quickly, which is more or less the opposite to how most ICANN related activities progress.Earlier this evening the group submitted its report / paper to ICANNThe report, which runs to about 11 … [Read more...] about Informal Working Group Publish Report On New TLDs
New TLDs – Progress? Or Just More Chaos?
During the ICANN meeting in Seoul it became very clear that new TLDs were not going to progress on schedule (which schedule doesn't matter).It also became clear that:ICANN still wants them to go aheadICANN wants to make everyone happyThere's an obvious flaw there.You cannot appease all interest groups AND move forward with new TLDs.The "overarching issues" need to be addressed … [Read more...] about New TLDs – Progress? Or Just More Chaos?
New TLD Applicant Guidebook v3 Now Available
ICANN has published the 3rd version of the applicant guidebook and it is now available for comments.The texts (more than one!) are available here.Jothan Frakes has posted some initial observations as wellDue to the sheer size and complexity of the guidebook it will probably take time for people to fully digest it and come up with sane critique. … [Read more...] about New TLD Applicant Guidebook v3 Now Available
AFNIC / CORE To Run .Paris
The Mayor of Paris was very upbeat about the new TLD project when he spoke during the ICANN meeting in Paris. Not surprisingly Paris is one of the European cities that is pushing hard to get its own tld .paris.According to news released earlier today the .paris bid is going to be using a combination of AFNIC and CORE.AFNIC already runs the .fr cctld operations, while CORE runs … [Read more...] about AFNIC / CORE To Run .Paris
Neustar and DotGreen
While the squabble over .eco might not have vanished, it's not as "big" a news item this week..So how about .green?Neustar announced earlier today that the organisation running the .green bid has chosen them to run their backend if their bid is successful.Neustar already runs the registry backend services for .tel, .biz and several ccTLDs. … [Read more...] about Neustar and DotGreen