By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch In an effort to improve internationalisation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open hubs in Singapore and Istanbul, to serve the Asia-Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa respectively. ICANN’s headquarters in Los Angeles will become the hub serving the Americas. The hubs shall …
Over the last few months one of the areas of attention in the new TLD project has been “closed generics”. I’ve written about this several times in the past and I’ve also raised the issue in as many fora as possible. Yesterday ICANN published a letter they’d received from Google with respect to several of …
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) met in Beijing during the week of 4 April 2013. Sixty-one (61) GAC Members participated in the meetings and (8) Observers. The GAC has reached consensus on GAC Objection Advice according to Module 3.1 part I of the Applicant …
The headlines out of ICANN’s meeting in Beijing may be all about new domains, but it is the quiet, systemic evolution of ICANN itself that holds the greatest promise for Internet users globally. ICANN President Fadi Chehadé opened the meeting by announcing that it was ICANN’s “season to evolve,” and setting forth a series of …
To help prepare you for the 16 April 2013 launch, ICANN has published brief online video tutorials intended to give you an overview of how to navigate the portal, including how to create and electronically submit cases to our customer service team. Watch Tutorial Videos Now!
Beijing, China… The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that Duncan Burns has been named as the organization’s Vice President of Global Communications. Burns is leaving Hill+Knowlton Strategies in Washington, D.C. to lead ICANN’s rapidly expanding global communications team. “Duncan has the international experience and leadership skills we need “ said …
ICANN now says they will be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from the ICANN Beijing meeting, entitled “New gTLD Program Status ICANN released some other important dates and time frames for the new gTLD process: …
Marking another milestone in the implementation of the community-developed New gTLD Program, ICANN today announced the selection of three geographically diverse emergency back-end registry operators, or EBEROs. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), Neustar, Inc. and Nominet were selected to guarantee domain names within a new gTLD continue to resolve in the event of …
“If ICANN were to delegate the gTLD to DCA despite the AUC’s endorsement of UniForum, it is likely that the AUC would lose faith in ICANN and its structures.” “Such conspiracies that are being contrived and hatched by the opponents of DCA Trust with the active connivance of DomainIncite will fail.” The statement …
At a Glance With the GAC Member Early Warnings phase complete, the GAC is now moving to the next phase, which is GAC advice on new gTLDs. GAC advice is a key element of the overall process of the new gTLD Program. In that context, GAC sessions at ICANN’s public meeting in Beijing in April …