By Dibya Sarkar Fiercegovernmentit A “smooth transition” from U.S. control over web addresses to a new, international group will require active participation of stakeholders, support for the new governance model, consensus and greater accountability and transparency, said the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration at ICANN’s London meeting June 23. Lawrence Strickling, who’s …
France has expressed anger at the organisation responsible for assigning internet domains over the planned launch of .wine and .vin addresses. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been rolling out new custom web names. But France said addresses like .wine would put trade agreements regarding the sale of region-specific products like …
ICANN is in the middle of a email exchange for the apparent delay of .africa, with the AUC. This comes just 3 days to the 22 – 26 June 2014 ICANN 50 in London, England. On 02 Jun 2014, Dr. Elham M. A. Ibrahim the African union Commissioner, Infrastructure and Energy wrote a letter to …
Source: BNA Writen By David McAuley June 10 — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers executed an about-face June 6, taking a more neutral role on a number of important particulars in its suggested process for developing a proposal to transition the National Telecommunications and Information Agency’s (NTIA) contractual oversight role over critical …
New Infographic: Perspectives from Small Businesses on New Generic Top-level Domains (gTLDs) WASHINGTON, June 19, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Over the next couple of years, domain standards like .com, .net and .org will be joined by potentially thousands of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), such as .photography and .restaurant. To gain perspective from those already …
CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquired Internet.BS, a top 30 domain name registrar for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. CentralNic says it will pay $5.2 million when the deal closes, with $2.7 million due in cash and $2.5 million to be paid in the form of 2.1 million new CentralNic shares. An additional $1.8 million payment …
“It would be ill-advised for ICANN to attempt to define bad faith behaviour related to the use of geographical indications… when the world’s experts have been unable to do so for years,” the US letter said. Online addresses ending in .wine and .vin are set to be uncorked soon, despite objections from European governments and …
The Internet Governance Project (IGP) writes: ICANN’s Expert Working Group (EWG) on Whois and privacy, which published its final report today, has unfortunately continued a long tradition of failing to find consensus between privacy advocates and business interests. The business interests see coerced publication of domain name registration data as an invaluable aid to brand protection and law enforcement, …
Kevin Lisota of GeekWire writes, Up until this year, buying a domain name was pretty straightforward. With one or two accounts at registrars like GoDaddy or namecheap, you could buy just about any domain extension. Transferring domain names was also relatively easy. However, this year brings us the release of more than 600 new domain extensions …
UPDATE: I am not going to rewrite this blog post. However, since writing it earlier today, I learned that there was a late addition — a “managers’ package” — added to the bill prior to passage. That new language, offered by Senator Johanns, adds a requirement that Senate Commerce receive 7 days advance notice of …