“…if the ICANN Board accepts its responsibility in this matter, then it can rightfully provide the type of adequate redress that DCA Trust believes it is entitled, to as the prevailing party in the IRP. We believe that the ICANN Board can act without involving the ICANN GAC in this process.” In a strongly worded …
DCA Trust who is one of the two applicants for the .africa top level domain whose progress was frozen due to an Independent Review Process (“IRP) which is a proceeding provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws, where any person materially affected by a decision or action of the ICANN Board …
GAC has been now found to be one of the biggest impediment to ICANN’s accountability and transparency standards this is due to the several times that GAC’s intervention of the new top level domain has been found to be meddling with applicants without reason or strong reasons to back their consensus objection. Applicants for strings …
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 …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has provided an update on its investigation into a data exposure issue in the New gTLD Applicant and GDD (Global Domains Division) portals, first reported on 1 March 2015. In its 30 April announcement, ICANN noted its intention to disclose to affected users the identity of …
When last we left the nascent “.sucks” generic top-level domain, ICANN was calling for investigation and scrutiny into the pricing structure the domain’s designated registry was implementing. That registry, a company called Vox Populi, is currently offering sunrise pricing on “.sucks” domain names with the MSRP going as high as $2,499. Individual registrars are charged …
The start of the new year is appropriate for a performance review, so David Taylor, partner at law firm Hogan Lovells, assesses the popularity of the new gTLD sunrise periods and the progress of the UDRP and URS. January 2015 saw the total number of domain name registrations across nearly 500 new generic top-level domains …
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 …
ICANN has announced the approval of the Name Collision Occurrence Management Framework [PDF, 634 KB] by the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC). The framework implementation requirements were developed with input from many sources including the ICANN community, a report published by JAS Global Advisors LLC, and advice from the Security and Stability Advisory …
Noted American Wine Regions Join Forces to Protest ICANN’s Release of .wine and .vin Domain Names Nearly 2,000 American wineries decry misappropriation of hard-fought regional name recognition Seven noted American wine regions have banded together in opposition to the rights-to-the-highest-bidder release of generic top level domain names (gTLDs) such as .wine and .vin by the …