Former ICANN executive Kurt Pritz has assumed the role of interim Executive Director for the Domain Name Association, a newly formed non-profit business association that represents the interests of the domain name industry. Kurt will be working with and representing DNA during the ICANN-48 meetings in Buenos Aires. He played a key role in the …
Advocates for the open, lightly governed Internet were shocked last month when the European Union aligned itself with countries like Iran, China and Brazil in calling for world governments to assert control over the Internet’s core technical management functions. The EU proposal, offered near the end of a two-week UN conference on the Internet, appeared …
Is ICANN forming too many panels to risk its own inundation? This week in the midst 17 November 2013 at the start of ICANN Buenos Aires, ICANN has released a ICANN High-Level Panel Organizes to Address Future of Internet Governance, this comes barely 6 months after there was announcement during the ICANN 47 Durban meeting …
ICANN’s Draft Vision, Mission & Focus Areas for a Five-Year Strategic Plan The Draft Vision, Mission & Focus Areas for a Five-Year Strategic Plan [PDF, 313 KB] is a working draft to support the creation of ICANN‘s Vision and Five-Year Strategic Plan. It has been written based on brainstorming that occurred April – September 2013 …
From the The Reporter Ethiopia DotConnectAfrica (DCA) Trust has written to the new AU leadership raising ethical and accountability issues on how the endorsement process was handled from its inception within the African Union institution. In the letter dated August 2, 2013 the Company asks the AU leadership to “review and investigate the role that …
DotConnectAfrica’s objection application treatment at ICANN and the hands through which the application passed, makes for a very interesting governance case at ICANN. Owing to the highlighted conflict of interest cases in the past, its hard to determine how transparent and impartial it remained in determining the application’s destiny. At ICANN Board Level: Advice that …
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 consist of a single label (e.g., http://example, or mail@example). Dotless names would require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record …
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 study, ICANN proposed to the community several possible mitigation measures, including: Proceeding with contracting and delegation of those strings categorized as “low risk” (80%) but …
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 RDNH is getting worse. The UDRP is used more frequently than ever to attempt to steal domain names from their rightful owners. The early …
American Bible Society has won the rights to operate .bible, a new top-level domain (called gTLDs) to enter into an arena dominated by .com and .org. The application process has taken ABS over a year to secure .bible from the International Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which it says will be used by …