Tag: Singapore

ICANN Cancels Meeting In Panama City Due To Zika Virus

Earlier this evening ICANN announced that the scheduled meeting in June 2016 will not be held in Panama City. The cancellation of the meeting and its change of location is due to concerns related to the recent outbreak of the Zika Virus. ICANN will be holding a meeting in June, but where that meeting will… Continue reading ICANN Cancels Meeting In Panama City Due To Zika Virus

Gene Kearon Joins .Irish

Gene Kearon - image via ICANN Wiki

Domain industry veteran, Gene Kearon, has joined .irish. Kearon, who was most recently with Dominion Enterprises, announced last night that he was joining .irish. He will be helping promote the new TLD for the global Irish community at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Singapore. Kearon previously worked at Neustar where he was heavily involved in… Continue reading Gene Kearon Joins .Irish

The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond

ICANN’s NCUC – the Non-Commercial Users Constituency is organising a full day event in Singapore right before the ICANN meeting. The event is focussed on Internet Governance with a focus on the Netmundial meeting in Brazil: The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond The purpose of this NCUC conference is to provide a first opportunity for… Continue reading The Road to São Paulo, and Beyond

ICANN Board Votes in Favour of New TLDs

This morning’s board meeting in Singapore didn’t bring too many surprises. The board voted in favour of launching the new TLD program, though not all board members voted in favour. They’ve also put out a timeline for applications, which should make quite a few people happy. What is interesting is what the board members said… Continue reading ICANN Board Votes in Favour of New TLDs

D-Day For New TLDs?

  Later this morning, during the ICANN meeting in Singapore, ICANN’s board will meet. This is not a “normal” board meeting, as it has only one item on the agenda:   Consideration of New gTLD Program. That single line says so little and yet so much. For the last few years the new gTLD program… Continue reading D-Day For New TLDs?

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!

New TLD Advocates Circulate Open Letter / Petition To ICANN Board

Next week’s ICANN meeting in Singapore could herald the official launch of the new TLD process. ICANN’s board might decide to give the entire thing a “green light”. Of course it’s not that simple.  The GAC isn’t exactly impressed with ICANN, the US definitely isn’t and the IP lobby is still more than a little… Continue reading New TLD Advocates Circulate Open Letter / Petition To ICANN Board

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

ICANN 41 Schedule

  If you’re planning on either attending the ICANN 41 meeting in Singapore or participating remotely here is the schedule   As usual the meeting doesn’t officially start until Monday, but there is a very busy schedule of meetings from Saturday morning onwards. The schedule is “subject to change” and if the last meeting is… Continue reading ICANN 41 Schedule

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