Earlier this year, the Obama administration asked ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to create a means of overseeing the Internet after U.S. governance is scheduled to end in another year. The administration decided not to maintain the current U.S. minimum-oversight role. This decision led to a debate as to whether transferring control …
Port Louis, Mauritius, on 17 September 2014, Badru Ntege, the Chairman of AFRINIC’s Board, announced that AFRINIC’s founding CEO, Mr. Adiel A. Akplogan, will be leaving his position on 31st January 2015. Mr. Akplogan departs After leading AFRINIC’s accreditation process to become the world’s fifth Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for a decade, similar to its …
ICANN has responded to a letter by Mr. Lucky M. Masilela the CEO ZA Central Registry who had written to ICANN to express his worries on .africa delays saying that “In terms of ICANN’s by-laws the IRP panel should strive to issue its written declaration no later than 6 months after the filing of the …
The first collection of second-level domains using the new .melboune top-level domain will be live on the Internet from tomorrow. The first .melbourne names include the new online home for the TLD, www.live.melbourne, and the home pages of a number of businesses that have been appointed ‘ambassadors’ for the domain, including the Bank of …
The Internet community is proving to be a force which is not looking back, this comes in light of a recent surprising bylaw change proposal that would require 2/3 of the voting members of the Board to vote to act inconsistently with a piece of GAC advice. Currently, the Bylaws require a simple majority of …
While the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a nonprofit, over the course of it’s 15 years in existence it’s created a tremendous amount of wealth. As the organization responsible for creating new subdomains on the Internet, ICANN, as it’s known, decides what makes up the Internet. While it started with just .com, …
LOS ANGELES – ICANN announced in a press release 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, …
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 …
With planning for a second round of gTLD underway, ICANN has stated that the next “application round is not expected to launch until 2016 at the earliest” – but don’t be surprised if there are further delays along the way. Planning for the second round of gTLDs was discussed at the recent ICANN board meeting and …
By Rep. John Shimkus on rollcall.com Summary: In theory, this transition follows a long-anticipated, congressionally endorsed plan to empower Internet architects and engineers, civil society, and technology industry stakeholders with the authority to maintain the DNS without government intrusion. In reality, the proposed transition creates an opportunity for authoritarian governments to supplant ICANN with the …