In a letter to the Chief Executive Officer of ICANN, Mr. Fadi Chehadé, the ICANN Board Chair Mr. Crocker and a copy to the various individuals presiding over New gTLD matters including: Cherine Chalaby, Chair, New gTLD Program Committee Heather Dryden, Chair, Government Advisory Committee Kurt Pritz, SVP Stakeholder Relations and Acting Director of New gTLD Program Suzanne Sene, …
The global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2012 holds at Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan, from 6th to 9th November, 2012, but the preparatory stakeholders’ forum is slated for September 25, 2012 in Abuja. The theme of the Global IGF 2012 is “Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development”. Read More
ICANN’s new CEO Fadi Chehade has embarked on a bold restructure of the organization’s management on his first day in the job. Announcing two new senior management members – Sally Costerton as head of stakeholder relations and communications and Tarek Kamel as head of governmental affairs Read More
Simple and great names will rule the world. Complicated, hard to spell or multiple part names will impose difficulties. Examples like, dot Saskatchewan, dot Albuquerque, dot Sault Ste Marie, dot Ypsilanti or dot Lake Winnibigoshish type names will have far less appeal. Read More
Since the late 2010 there has been different aspersions cast on DotAfrica a domain that has got to be one of the most interesting domains ever applied for in the ICANN new gTLD series, I personally think it’s one of my most watched domains. From its origins, it has been a duel between two groups …
The 2012 ICANN Nominating Committee better known as (NomCom) has completed its selections for seven leadership positions within ICANN. The NomCom Chair, Vanda Scartezini, said in part ,”It was a very interesting experience, especially the opportunity to work with very qualified people and a staff that is always focused on making things work.” Read More
One of the SEO analysts reveals, “The domain musicrights.com has lots of potential in terms of gaining higher search engine ranking very quickly. The term “music rights” itself defines a specialized niche and most searchers will land on this site, if the site is optimized a little bit with this term.” Read More
