“We want the summit to acknowledge our success”. DotConnectAfrica was among over 1,500 delegates that included Seven African Heads of State Ministers and CEO’s of blue chip firms. The summit was Co-hosted by President Paul Kagame and Dr. Hamadoun Toure, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), with the aim of pooling together …
“Dotless” TLDs Within the evaluation process there have evidently been a number of proposals that propose relatively novel use of these top level DNS labels, and the one I’d like to look at here is that of the so-called “dotless” domains proposed for the DNS root zone. It’s as if I had decided to revive …
Thursday, 31 October 2013, Gibraltar: Famous Four Media was surprised and disappointed to receive the decision of the Panellist Professor Dr. uido Tawil, appointed by the International Centre for Expertise, in the case of SportAccord v dot Sport Limited EXP 471/ICANN/88. Famous Four Media and its applicant dot Sport Limited maintain that the word “sport” …
29 October 2013 Los Angeles, California… John Crain has been named ICANN’s new Chief Security, Stability and Resiliency Officer. In this newly created position Crain will assume the responsibilities of Jeff Moss, who announced he is stepping down from his position as Chief Security Officer at the end of the year. More broadly, Crain will …
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 the AU has played in …
During the opening ceremony of ICANN 47 in Durban, South Africa, President and CEO Fadi Chehadé announced the creation of five new ICANN Strategy Panels that would serve as an integral part of a framework for cross-community dialogue on strategic matters. The ICANN Strategy Panels were intended to convene subject matter experts, thought leaders and …
The Council of the country code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) today approved the Kiribati Ministry of Communications, Transport, and Tourism Development; and Agence Tunisienne d’Internet , the ccTLD operators of .ki (Kiribati) and .tn (Tunisia), as new ccNSO members. The ccNSO, which is ICANN’s policy development body for ccTLD issues, now numbers 141 members, all of them country …
That’s how some are interpreting a statement released in October by 10 organizations central to the Internet’s operation. “With striking unanimity, the organizations that actually develop and administer Internet standards and resources initiated a break with three decades of U.S. dominance of Internet governance,” writes Milton Mueller, a professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. “A …
7 October 2013 Montevideo, Uruguay – The leaders of organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure globally have met in Montevideo, Uruguay, to consider current issues affecting the future of the Internet. The Internet and World Wide Web have brought major benefits in social and economic development worldwide. Both have been built and …
Internet domain names may be fading out of fashion with a new study revealing that the majority of Australians do not own a web address and do not see the need to invest in one either. Of the 10,000 Australian polled for the study, 87 per cent said they did not own or run a …