The Internet bug Heartbleed doesn’t just affect websites. It also has shown up in the gadgets we use to connect to the Internet. Tech giants Cisco (CSCO, Fortune 500) and Juniper (JNPR) have identified about two dozen networking devices affected by Heartbleed, including servers, routers, switches, phones and video cameras used by small and large …
//CGCS Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Ben Wagner discusses the upcoming NETMundial conference in Brazil and questions whether ‘global forums’ actually impact the wider geopolitics of the internet. With the coming ‘Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance’ NETmundial conference in Brazil, the debate on internet governance is heating up again. Less than two years …
Globalization of ICANN has become quite like the trending topic of the internet governance in 2014. The main discussion comes as ICANN seeks to be set free from US oversight, the discussionwas fanned by the NTIA decision to request ICANN to convene a discussion that would draft a roadmap to allow ICANN assume its …
Barely a week after Representatives Todd Rokita, John Shimkus (IL-15), and Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) introduced the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Bill in response to the Department of Commerce announcement that the U.S. would relinquish its oversight of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS) to a poorly-defined ‘global Internet community.’ Rep. Kelly has …
The Energy & Commerce Committee of the United States House of Representatives will host a hearing today on the US giving up its oversight control over ICANN. The issues will border on Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet. The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, …
Internetworld.de, interviewed Dirk Krischenowski of .Berlin who blasted ICANN and the performance of the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) The article was published in German and we used Google translate. Dirk chatted with the German publication about the recently completed Sunrise period for .Berlin, which is now in available to be registered. In the Sunrise Period …
The recent ICANN 49 meeting in Singapore saw Akram Atallah, president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division (GDD) and Lucky Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry (ZACR) participate in a symbolic signing ceremony that allows the new gTLD “.Africa” to proceed to delegation. The Announcement by ICANN continues that “This marks the first Registry Agreement signed …
Three Republican Congressmen have introduced a bill that would prevent the US government giving away from oversight of the DNS root zone. In the press release Rokita and Colleagues Seek Review of Obama Plan to Relinquish U.S. Oversight of the Internet. Read the entire Rep. Todd Rokita Press release below Rokita and Colleagues Seek Review …
It was all talk in Singapore. But with the US withdrawing from ICANN, the body that governs the Internet, in 2015, doubt is rife. The world’s digital community may not get a new “world stewardship” model in time. It was hardly a surprise. People had been calling for it for ages. But when the US …
ICANN has on Monday 24 2014 signed a registry agreement with the ZA Central Registry NPC trading as Registry.Africa to operates the .africa top-level domain. The agreement comes even as DotConnectAfrica is going through ICANN’s own Independent IRP process. The IRP which is a proceeding provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of the ICANN …