The 2015 target to cut free ICANN from the NTIA ‘Oversight’ may be too ambitious atleast from the latest scrutiny from several respected bodies. ICANN is slowly but surely facing an uphill task proving that it is ready to go in alone in managing the world’s only internet domain names root. The NTIA announced in …
Washington Internet Daily – ICANN Stakeholders Deplore Kelly’s Defending Internet Freedom Act The Defending Internet Freedom Act (HR-5737), if passed, would essentially reduce ICANN to a U.S. government-controlled entity, Internet governance experts said in interviews Friday. That would provoke international outrage, they said. The bill’s supporters said the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) transition demands …
There are a number of ways China cuts off access to websites it deems inappropriate for its populace. It can co-opt telecoms companies as part of its Great Firewall to simply blacklist sites one by one. But it can also shut off reams of websites in one fell swoop by blocking companies that run content …
Two organizations whose voices hold considerable sway on Internet governance issues–which appeared up until just last weekend to be speaking in harmony–now find themselves at odds. The Internet Society has blasted efforts from some quarters to create a “UN Security Council” for the internet – which would rule over the online world. The society (ISoc) …
Apple, Google, and several other Internet and technology companies are in a race against the clock to get the Senate to approve a bill that will end the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Known as the USA Freedom Act, S. 2685, the bill aims to stop the government’s collection and storage of the electronic communications …
12 November 2014 A U.S. federal court has agreed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that the country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) are not property subject to attachment. Claimants filed writs of attachment to seize from ICANN, the ccTLDs for Iran (.IR), Syria (.SY) and North Korea (.KP), (as well as …
ICANN is introducing the addition of Five-Year Operating Plan to its planning process, and is seeking public comment on the ICANN Draft Five-Year Operating Plan Version 1 (FY2016-FY2020) [PDF, 1.04 MB]. The public comment period begins today, Monday, 11 November 2014 for a total of 55 days to complete on Monday, 5 January 2015. This …
The New gTLD domain name registrations have passed the 3 million mark. According to ntldstats.com, the total number of new gTLD domain name registrations sits at 3,026,376. According to TheDomains, the good news is that in less than 8 months new gTLD registrations went from zero to over 3 Million and are growing daily. The bad …
As Blogged by Samantha Dickinson on http://linguasynaptica.com Yesterday, at the ITU’s Plenipotentiary’s Sunday session, the Working Group of Plenary’s Ad Hoc Group on Internet-related resolutions agreed to remove the most controversial of proposed changes to ITU’s resolutions. You know the ones – the proposals have been causing some in the Internet governance community, the media …
ICANN has relocated its 52nd meeting which had been scheduled to take place in Marrakech, Morocco in February 2015, to Singapore In an official alert below, ICANN has given reasons 3 November 2014 Community concerns that would prevent maximum participation at its next global meeting (ICANN 52, 8-12 February 2015), a critical one given the …