ICANN intends to terminate the Registry Agreement of South Africa’s Naspers, and its pay-television subsidiary MultiChoice, thus the applicant may soon lose the brand generic top-level domains applied for in 2012. According to information available on the ICANN website, termination notices regarding 10 TLDs owned by Naspers and MultiChoice, the pay-TV operator that owns DStv, …
A Huge Win for Legal Front-Runner DotConnectAfrica Trust! . April 20, 2016, ICANN has withdrawn its Motion to Dismiss [PDF] against DCA Trust’s First Amended Complaint of 26 February 2016. . In its stipulation to the Court, ICANN moved to withdraw its dismissal citing the following reason: . “in view of the Court’s order on …
A Huge Win for Legal Front-Runner DotConnectAfrica Trust! On 20th April 2016, ICANN withdrew its Motion to Dismiss [PDF] against DCA Trust’s First Amended Complaint filed on 26 February 2016. In its stipulation to the Court, ICANN moved to withdraw its dismissal citing the following reason: “in view of the Court’s order on DCA’s …
ICANN has warned new top level domain name applicants whose contracts have been signed to move to the delegation phase. One .brand new gTLD applicant Emerson Electric Co (NYSE:EMR) has terminated its new TLD ambitions. There are about 200 TLDs with approaching delegation deadlines between now and the end of August 2016. ICANN is working …
ICANN has published a draft of its new bylaws for public comment until May 21, 2016, 23:59 UTC Brief Overview of the Comment Period Purpose: This Public Comment period seeks community input on the Draft New ICANN Bylaws developed to reflect the recommendations contained in the proposals by the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) …
It was a rough week for arrogant and unaccountable ICANN. A U.S. District Court Judge, The Honorable R. Gary Klausner, in Los Angeles, actually held the California corporation accountable, a rare event, to which most stakeholders can attest, sweeping aside every one of the arguments interposed by Jones Day, ICANN’s lawyers, and granted a preliminary injunction “barring …
On April 12, 2016, a United States District Court in Central District Of California has granted DCA Trust a Preliminary Injunction on the .Africa gTLD, the decision was made for case no. 16-CV-00862 RGK (JCx) [PDF], DotConnectAfrica Trust v. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers & ZA Central Registry. This will be the second …
In a press release on 13th April, 2016, DCA Trust has won a preliminary injunction that also comes after the company also won a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on 4th March 2016, ordering ICANN not to delegate .Africa until a lawsuit by DotConnectAfrica is resolved in its entirety. Below is the press release …
ICANN had an “unbridled discretion” to do as it pleases with DCA’s .Africa application But no gTLD applicant would expect that this “discretion” could include biased, arbitrary, and unfair treatment, after submitting an $185,000 application fee to ICANN” – DCA Trust DCA Trust has filed an opposition to ICANN’s Claim to dismiss its first amended …
As published by BNA: An applicant for the .africa top-level Internet domain fired back at domain overseer the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), saying in a March 21 court filing that its blanket litigation waiver is unconscionable DotConnectAfrica Trust v. ICANN, C.D. Cal., No. 2:16-cv-00862, reply brief filed 3/21/16. This is the …