Tag: Top-level domain

ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee On DNS Blocking

ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has published a paper on DNS Blocking. SSAC 50: DNS Blocking: Benefits Versus Harms is available for download in PDF here The paper isn’t very long and has a short list of points that people should be aware of when considering implementing DNS blocking: 1. The organization imposes… Continue reading ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee On DNS Blocking

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

Some Considerations For New TLD Operators From A Registrar Perspective

The “hot topic” at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Singapore will, of course, be whether or not the new TLDs will actually launch or not. Sure, they’ll launch at some point, but ICANN has been pushing to make the big announcement at Singapore. There has been a lot written over the last couple of years… Continue reading Some Considerations For New TLD Operators From A Registrar Perspective

Why Won’t ICANN Answer Questions?

During the last public ICANN meeting in San Francisco there was a public forum. This is quite normal. Several people asked questions of the ICANN board, some were answered, others weren’t. Why not? Nigel Roberts from the Channel Isles registry asked the following (for the sake of clarity I’m republishing the entire section of the… Continue reading Why Won’t ICANN Answer Questions?

EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

Eurid, the operator of the .eu registry, has suffered a serious outage. According to official communications from the registry the systems were offline from last night until earlier today (though no official communication about the servers coming back online has been made) How long was the registry offline? By the looks of things it could… Continue reading EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

Afilias Attempts To Bury The Hatchet With Registrars

Afilias was vocally opposed to vertical integration and cross-ownership between registrars and registries. Several of its policy staff were active participants in the VI (vertical integration) working group within the GNSO for the last few months. And if you have a few hours to spare you can trawl through the email archives and meeting recordings… Continue reading Afilias Attempts To Bury The Hatchet With Registrars

DotOrg Puts DNSSEC Live

At the ICANN meeting in Belgium today PIR announced that they have started signing their zone. ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced that the .ORG domain is now in full production with Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) by accepting second level signed .ORG zones. In launching signed delegations, .ORG – the third… Continue reading DotOrg Puts DNSSEC Live

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