The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago, but online an “evil empire” is thriving. Security experts say the .su internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into a haven for hackers who’ve flocked to the domain space to send spam and steal money. Capitalist concerns rather than …
The inherent limitations of this approach spurred the author of the article, Patrick Meier, and his team to enhance Ushahidi with a set of Twitter classifiers — algorithms that could automatically identify Tweets that were relevant and informative to the crisis at hand. For example, classifiers automatically categorize eyewitness reports, infrastructure-damage assessments, casualties, humanitarian needs, …
Amongst the responses that caused an industry uproar that followed the Beijing GAC advice over many applications submitted by ICANN included DotConnectAfrica’s response which was posted by ICANN on 22 May 2013 DotConnectAfrica the company that applied for .africa (Application number -1-1165-42560) sting and received a GAC objection advice has responded to ICANN in a …
ICANN has currently placed the GAC advice that was given during the 46th meeting in Beijing China, according to the announcement “On 11 April 2013, the Governmental Advisory Committee issued its Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. The Board New gTLD Committee, acting on behalf of the full Board, will now …
In order to provide additional time for candidates to apply, ICANN’s 2013 Nominating Committee (NomCom) has extended the deadline for Statements of Interest until 15 May 2013 at 23:59 UTC. The 2013 NomCom is actively seeking qualified candidates for the following key positions within ICANN: Three members of the Board of Directors of ICANN Three …
DotConnectAfrica has received a GAC consensus advice on .africa through the ICANN GAC. The GAC early warnings which lead to a GAC advice has already been criticized for corruption and nepotism. This current one was also marred with irregularities and inconsistencies that have made GAC lose its credibility in the eyes of many internet governance participants and observers. DotConnectAfrica has survived all objections so far …
After an extended period of negotiations, ICANN is posting a Proposed Final 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) for public comment. On 7 March 2013, ICANN posted its version of the 2013 RAA for public comment, noting some areas of disagreement between ICANN and the Registrar Negotiating Team (NT). In addition, some of the specifications posted …
The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act. Cispa is designed to help combat cyberthreats by making it easier for law enforcers to get at web data. This is the second time Cispa has been passed by the House. Senators threw out the first draft, saying it did …
Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC) and ICANN have signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing ADNDRC as a Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) provider. ADNDRC is well known to the Internet community as an established Uniform Domain Name Dipute Resolution Policy (UDRP) provider, with offices in Beijing, HongKong, Seoul and Kuala Lumpur. It has …
From ICANN’s guidebook Module 3,”ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee was formed to consider and provide advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN’s policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues.” It continues to …