Lawrence E. Strickling has said in his latest post-ICANN 52 Singapore blog that “While September 2015 has been a target date, because that is when the base period of our contract with ICANN expires, we have the flexibility to extend the contract if the community needs more time to develop the best plan possible” This …
Republican Press Office – (202) 224-1251 Feb 25 2015 10:00 AM Senate Russell Office Building – 253 U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will convene a hearing on Wednesday, February 25, 2015, entitled “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance.” As the U.S. government considers relinquishing …
“ Equally, this exclusion treatment given to DCA by ICANN was understood by many Africans, as well as the closely observing global ICANN community, as an attempt to endear a selection process of who should be representing Africa, due to the high stakes over the .africa gTLD – a sort of .africa Magna Carta, if …
A Minnesota court case that declared domain names are property and subject to garnishment. This is according to Cincinnati.com From the article: A Minnesota Appellate Court recently weighed in on an emerging question in the online world – is a domain name and the Web site associated with it subject to a garnishment order? The …
South Africa’s ccTLD manager ZA Central Registry (ZACR) has informed its domain registrars according to a report in the South African technology news site My Broadband of an imminent hike in the domain name prices for registering or renewing co.za, org.za, net.za, and web.za from 1 March 2015, the ZA. ZACR CEO Lucky Masilela said …
On behalf of the Cross Community Working Group (CCWG) Accountability, the co-chairs Thomas Rickert (GNSO), León Sanchez Ambia (ALAC) and Mathieu Weill (ccNSO) are pleased to announce that the CCWG has prepared a set of high level statements that might be valuable to all groups or individuals working on proposals as part of the NTIA …
The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) announced its transition proposal Assembly and Finalization Process – https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-transition-assembly-finalization-24dec14-en.pdf [PDF, 89 KB]. This document explains the process that the ICG will follow for assembly and finalization of the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal. It includes information about the ICANN Board’s role in conveying the final transition proposal to …
Sophia Bekele the Founder of DCA Trust has given her views the ICANN-IANA transition for 2015, calling for a new body to work with NTIA. “Therefore, I wish to call for the establishment of such a new body that will work in cooperation with the NTIA to exercise supervisory responsibilities over ICANN” Read the OpEd …
.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073. The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net. We at TheDomains.com were the first …
Famous Four Media Joins Growing Rank of Clients LEESBURG, Va. — Architelos, Inc., the premier provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, has added Famous Four Media to its expanding roster of NameSentry clients. Famous Four Media will be implementing NameSentry for current and upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as …