The .Africa IRP has finally been ruled in favour of DotConnectAfrica Trust as the prevailing partly in case that has dragged for two years. The panel that comprised of Mr. Babak Barin who was President of Panel, Professor (Dr.) Catherine Kessedjian, and the Honourable Judge William J. Cahill, a retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge …
“Oversight and transparency are necessary parts of any proposed transition of IANA stewardship to the multi-stakeholder Internet community,” said Walden. “The House has spoken to ensure our oversight occurs before any transition is finalized. We will do our part to ensure this work stays on track and that any transition proposal preserves the open and robust …
The co-chairs of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA4] and Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA1] have written to ICANN informing them that they need to approve Amazon’s application for .Amazon which has been rejected due to “rights” asserted by Brazil nor Peru in relation to the Amazon Forest raised by Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). …
More than 1,400 members of the global Internet community have gathered this week, both in-person and remotely, to discuss and debate the future of ICANN and Internet governance at the ICANN53 in Buenos Aires. At issue is transition of control over the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which is responsible to operate key databases for …
“The active oversight by Congress adds another guardrail to this process and it demonstrates that the United States takes this transition very, very seriously,” said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), who chairs the committee’s communications and technology subcommittee. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), on Wednesday 17 June 2017 approved …
The ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) articulation and handling of several new top level domains has received under the ICANN new gTLD release has received a new critical but worrisome analysis from the US congressional Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure , Oversight and Government reform and Judiciary. The GAC which created under the ICANN ByLaws …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced that President and CEO Fadi Chehadé has informed the Board he will be concluding his tenure in March 2016 to move into a new career in the private sector (outside the Domain Name Industry). At the request of the Board, Chehadé will be available …
The ICANN CEO has announced intentions to step down from the helm in March 2016, it is not clear what has caused his resignation but speaking to AFP, Chehade said he has accepted a job in the private sector, outside of the domain name space which ICANN supervises. He promised to disclose the name of …
The one million dollar question however is: “If the ICANN CEO thinks that the CWG does not understand how the IANA functions work, and no body else understands it but ICANN, then why give such an important responsibility of aspects of the IANA Transition proposal to a group of people that presumably do not understand how the …
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation full committee held a hearing entitled “Preserving the Multistakeholder Model of Internet Governance” Hearing Details: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 – 10:00 a.m. EST (US) This hearing took place in Senate Russell Office Building, Room 253. LIVE video REPLAY of the hearing available HERE. Witnesses: • Mr. Fadi Chehadé, CEO, …