In wake of gTLD security criticism, ICANN announces emergency back-up...
IDG News Service – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has selected three emergency back-end registry operators to guarantee domain names within a new generic top-level...
View ArticleICANN Engagement Center to Open In Beijing
Beijing, China… ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé announced today that the organization will open its first new global engagement office in Beijing. “Engagement with China is not...
View ArticleInternational Chamber of Commerce posts its list of all filed Objections
In line with the New gTLD Dispute Resolution Procedure, ICC has published below a list of all the registered Objections filed with the ICC International Centre for Expertise. According to ICANN,...
View ArticleIs the ICANN GAC right? It depends on who you ask
What they’re saying about the GAC’s safeguard advice The ICANN New gTLD Board Committee request for comment on the GAC’s safeguard advice has closed, and the reply period will open soon. Here are some...
View Article646 projected withdrawals for the ICANN new gTLD applications
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. “Total projected withdrawals 646 vs. 545 budgeted; Total applications reflect...
View ArticleGAC Advice largely unworkable
The position of GAC and its importance in the ICANN new gTLD progress is being placed in a very tight spot over the relevance and the practicability of the recommendations that it has offered on the...
View ArticleBartleby’s Prefers Not to See Amazon Run Web Books Domain
Herman Melville’s character Bartleby the scrivener famously said he “would prefer not to,” and 160 years later the owner of Bartleby’s Books would prefer not to see Amazon (AMZN).com Inc. control...
View ArticleICANN Appoints First Two New gTLD Data Escrow Agents
Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. and NCC Group have been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD registry operators. All new gTLD registry operators will be...
View ArticleGAC Advice on .africa application fails to address vital concerns
Beijing 46th meeting was the platform that was used to post the ICANN GAC advice, which is a requirement of the new gTLD progress for all the new applications. GAC is an advisory body to ICANN. Though...
View ArticleDotConnectAfrica requests for re-consideration of the NGPC Decision on its...
DotConnectAfrica is anticipating a review and reinstatement of their application for .africa gTLD string that has been in the center of controversy in the past two years since ICANN announced the major...
View ArticleICANN approves first set of new gTLD, .Amazon rejection looms
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved the first set of global Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and users will soon be able to access sites ending with these domain...
View ArticleDotConnectAfrica Comments and Questions on .Africa at the ICANN-47 Public...
Below is a complete unabridged version of the comment/questions raised by Ms. Sophia Bekele, Executive Director and CEO of DotConnectAfrica Trust, at the ICANN-47 Public Forum Meeting in Durban,...
View ArticlegTLDs *are* going to make the Internet less safe
The introduction of thousands of new Internet extensions in the next year is going to make the Internet less secure if a new report is anything to go by. The “namespace quality index” produced by...
View ArticleTrademarks, domain name wars, and the birth of cybersquatting remedies
Trademarks lie at the heart of our market society, so it’s not surprising that they’ve been important on the Internet since it first went commercial. While the principles of trademark law apply equally...
View ArticleICANN Publishes the Dotless Domain Name Study
5 August 2013 ICANN is pleased to announce the publication of the Dotless Domain Name Security and Stability Study Report [PDF, 1.02 MB] by IT Security firm, Carve Systems LLC (Carve Systems). Dotless...
View ArticleCould governments make themselves regulators of content on the new TLDs?
There is a great deal of skepticism that the new gTLDs will add social value. After all, what is the social value of .book when there is already .book.com? Singer also raises cultural, expression, and...
View Article150 RDNH cases highlight flaws with the UDRP; MountainRovers.com identified...
The UDRP complaint against MountainRovers.com has the dubious distinction of being the 150th case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking identified so far. Five thoughts on this milestone- 1. The problem of...
View ArticleICANN: Potential Name Space Collision Report’s Impact on Contracting
As ICANN previously announced, we commissioned a study to consider the likelihood and impact of name space collisions between applied-for new gTLD strings and non-delegated TLDs. In light of that...
View ArticleICANN Board Prohibits Dotless Domain Names
At its meeting on 13 August 2013, the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) adopted a resolution affirming that “dotless domain names” are prohibited. Dotless domain names are those that...
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