Tag: Organizations

ICANN Hits New Low In Staff Retention

Quite a few people have voiced concerns over the last year or so with respect to ICANN’s staff retention. Any time the issue is raised during an ICANN meeting, however, the CEO and board have refused to entertain any discussion of the subject and cite “industry” statistics. So how are they going to explain this… Continue reading ICANN Hits New Low In Staff Retention

ICANN Chief Announces Departure Via Twitter

ICANN’s CEO and President, Rod Beckstrom, has announced that he will be stepping down in July of next year. The announcement came via Twitter of all places, with a press release, presumably with more details, due sometime soon: I have decided to wrap up my service at ICANN July 2012. Press release soon. With the… Continue reading ICANN Chief Announces Departure Via Twitter

CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!

If you attend ICANN meetings, or even just peruse the meeting schedule, you’ll realise that it’s a very full schedule. Trying to be in all the correct meetings on the timetable, combined with all the “unofficial” ones can be a nightmare to organise And ICANN’s meeting schedule is still not available in a “sane” format.… Continue reading CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!

Only 6 ICANN Comment Periods Open

  Normally in the weeks prior to an ICANN public meeting there is a buzz of activity as documents need to be submitted to meet the deadlines before the public meeting.   While this has happened as usual and the deadline is still open until Tuesday for the GNSO council meeting on 22nd June, there… Continue reading Only 6 ICANN Comment Periods Open

Are ICANN Senior Staff Getting A Payrise?

At the ICANN meeting in Brussels one of the topics that came up for discussion both during the public forum and the board meeting, was the topic of remuneration. That time round it was specifically in relation to the board and more specifically its chair. The discussion during the public forum was very interesting, as… Continue reading Are ICANN Senior Staff Getting A Payrise?

Domain Transfers – Domain Hijacking – Make Your Voice Heard

ICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) has formed a working group to consider changes to the domain transfer process to enhance security and reduce hijacking.  The working group consists of registrars, aftermarket players, domainers and other members of the ICANN Community.  The group published its preliminary recommendations at the ICANN meeting in Brussels two weeks… Continue reading Domain Transfers – Domain Hijacking – Make Your Voice Heard

Registry Registrar Separation Now Probably Going To Be A Policy Debate

Again on the subject of new TLDs …. One of the “issues” that concerned a number of people is the concept of “vertical separation”. The basic idea is that registries and registrars should be kept separate. While that is a wonderful Utopian ideal, the reality is that in the real world companies own other companies,… Continue reading Registry Registrar Separation Now Probably Going To Be A Policy Debate

Big Brands Shooting Themselves In The Foot?

One of the topics that keeps coming up in ICANN policy discussions and as part of the new TLD application process is “transparency”. ICANN, and the internet community in general, has had plenty of issues in the past with “bad actors” who have caused a lot of issues for everyone (think of many of the… Continue reading Big Brands Shooting Themselves In The Foot?

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… Continue reading Informal Working Group Publish Report On New TLDs

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