1&1 Internet Ltd’s new gTLD TV Ads promoting pre-registration services have been banned from the UK’s airwaves for being “likely to mislead” by the Advertising Standards Authority. The ads were part of probably the biggest new gTLD marketing outreach to date, a worldwide campaign I’ve heard is costing 1&1 up to $80 million A television commercial …
Writen By Frederick Harris for CircleID The survival thesis mentioned in Part 2 goes like this. ICANN’s imaginary mandate is global. But the mind set is provincial. The latter is defensive; focused on keeping power and therefore control over internet policy. But the evidence points to policy actions that contradict policy rhetoric. Discrepancies disclose the …
By NCC Staff Eight really big technology companies have asked the Obama administration to protect individual rights, under the Constitution. But how much sway do the Googles and Facebooks of the world have over decisions involving the legality of the NSA’s surveillance programs? The open letter from the two tech titans, which was signed along …
KOLKATA: The apex agency looking into India’s political, economic, energy and strategic security concerns has warned that the internet is “controlled and managed by the US government and its security agencies,” and demanded a “multilateral model” for resolution of all matters pertaining to internet governance. In a confidential note, seen by ET, the National Security …
This is a repost from johnmpoole.com All of the hopes, dreams, and promise of the internet, dashed by the NSA and ICANN et al: ICANN leaders push for broad-based Internet governance | PCWorld: “The revelations this year of NSA surveillance by former contractor Edward Snowden have stirred up Internet governance issues, Chehadé said. “That’s, frankly, …
Everybody agrees, all .WINE applicants want to find where the buck is going to stop, as far as the strange stalemate we have been in for so many months. Situation? “What situation?” I hear you asking. In July 2012, when applications and the name of their applicants were released to the public, it appeared that …
Beverly Hills, CA — (SBWIRE) — 12/04/2013 — XYZ.COM, the Internet registry operator behind the new .xyz domain names, has signed its registry agreement with ICANN, paving the way for the new generic domain extension to launch in Quarter 2 of 2014. As one of the first approved extensions in ICANN’s new gTLD program, .xyz …
4 December 2013 ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from Pacnames Ltd to Net-Chinese Co., Ltd. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Pacnames Ltd. The affected gTLD registries have processed the bulk transfers. Former registrant-customers of Pacnames Ltd should receive notices from Net-Chinese Co., …
Board considers if there’s any sort of appeal mechanism to new TLD objections. The results of new TLD string confusion objections handled by International Dispute Resolution Centre were a mess. They were completely unpredictable and results were mostly dependent on who the panelist was, not the merits of the case. As a result, both objectors …
The organization that oversees the Internet domain name registration industry last week revoked the charter of Dynamic Dolphin, a registrar that has long been closely associated with spam and cybercrime. The move came almost five years after this reporter asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to investigate whether the man at …