American winemakers were joined by their counterparts from Champagne at a conference on deregulating internet domain names in an effort to boost awareness of how weaker controls would negatively impact the wine business. Read more from harpers.co.uk
15 October 2014 Olga Madruga-Forti has announced that she is resigning from the ICANN Board of Directors after serving in that position for two years. “I have truly enjoyed working with Olga over the years,” said ICANN Board Chair Dr. Stephen D. Crocker. “We wish her the best in her new pursuits.” Madruga-Forti’s term as …
Jonathan Robinson has been awarded the 2014 ICANN Leadership Award for his contributions to the effectiveness of ICANN’s multistakeholder model. Robinson received the award in recognition of his devotion to the multistakeholder model, his extraordinary generosity of time, energy, knowledge and expertise, friendship and leadership, and his collegial leadership style that has increased civility and …
ICANN 51–Tuesday, 14 October, Schedule Highlights: 07:00 to 08:00 PDT At-Large Accessibility Working Group Olympic 08:30 to 09:30 PDT Board with the At-Large Los Angeles 08:30 to 09:45 PDT ICANN’s Public Responsibility Olympic 08:30 to 18:00 PDT ccNSO Members Meeting Day 1 Westside 09:00 to 12:30 PDT Non For-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC) Directors 09:00 …
Paul Rosenzweig, Brett Schaefer and James Gattuso take a look at the Transition debate at ICANN 51 in Los Angeles The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will hold a meeting next week in Los Angeles. The meeting, the 51st of its kind (hence the name “ICANN 51”), comes at an important cusp …
According to theDomains.com The number of new gTLD domain name registrations topped the 2.5 million mark for the first time yesterday as .NYC awarded over 2,900 domain names in the land rush program which ended yesterday, blowing away all previously new gTLD launches in terms of domain names awarded in Sunrise and Landrush (or equivalent …
Earlier this year, the Obama administration asked ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to create a means of overseeing the Internet after U.S. governance is scheduled to end in another year. The administration decided not to maintain the current U.S. minimum-oversight role. This decision led to a debate as to whether transferring control …
The first collection of second-level domains using the new .melboune top-level domain will be live on the Internet from tomorrow. The first .melbourne names include the new online home for the TLD, www.live.melbourne, and the home pages of a number of businesses that have been appointed ‘ambassadors’ for the domain, including the Bank of …
Perhaps you didn’t know it, but New York City is in the last leg of an officially decreed 60-day land rush to claim a web address that ends in .nyc. Until Oct. 7, people and businesses with a “physical” address in the city can pay a premium price to sign up ahead of the …
ICANN announces that the Generation Panel for the Chinese Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules (LGR) has been seated. Following the Call for Generation Panels to Develop Root Zone Label Generation Rules published on 11 July 2013, the Chinese script community has developed and submitted to ICANN, on 27 August 2014, the Proposal for the …