In the framework of the ccNSO Policy Development Process on IDN ccTLD‘s the purpose of the Interim Report [PDF, 556 KB] is to report on and seek feed-back on feasible recommendations for overall policy for the selection of IDN country code Top Level Domains strings (IDN ccTLD‘s) and the inclusion of IDN ccTLD managers in …
The ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade recently delivered a blisteringly frank assessment of ICANN’s new gTLD program, admitting that if it were up to him he would delay the whole thing by a year. Speaking bluntly, mainly to registries and registrars, at a regional ICANN meeting in Amsterdam this afternoon, Chehade painted a stark picture of …
The world’s most-popular web browsers are still failing to recognize new TLDs (top-level domains), many months after they go live on the internet. The version of the Safari browser that ships with the Mountain Lion iteration of Apple’s OS X appears to have even gone backwards, removing support for at least one TLD. read more
ICANN just issued a “thought paper“” entitled “Guidance for Preparing Domain Name Orders, Seizures & Takedowns” According to ICANN this “thought paper” offers guidance for anyone who prepares an order that seeks to seize or take down domain names. ” read more
“We believe that the governments were teleguided (or manipulated) into submitting these GAC Early Warning Advice, and as such, cannot really be considered as authentic in most cases. It is simply the outcome of a coordinated action which African country governments are being coerced to support, and we believe that actual governmental consultations with respective …
The Trademark Clearinghouse facilitates the protection of trademark rights during the initial allocation and registration periods for domain names in new generic top level domains (new gTLDs). All new gTLD registries will be required to use Clearinghouse data to ensure that a set of mandatory trademark rights protection mechanisms read more
DCA’s response to ICANN Board on its 17 Country objections is full of sensible explanation as to why ICANN cannot use the GAC recommendations in the early warning as a parting shot to its evaluation process in determining who will run the African registry. read more
The GAC Early warnings are a part of the process that ICANN is using in the new gTLD process that will increase the number of top level domains, 2013 will see the increase of such names as . On 20 November 2012, the GAC filed 242 Early Warnings on individual applications. The early warnings are …
The Czech Republic GAC representative also abused the Early Warnings process, using it to take sides in the contention over .GREEN. There are four applicants for .GREEN, and the Czech GAC representative declared that it liked one of the four applicants better than the others because it has a nice business plan that involves creating …
On one hand they support UN takeover of Internet, on another they are participating as key players in the new gTLD process. Africa has been known as a continent of paradoxes however, many developments are being experienced as a result of direct and indirect decisions made by countries as well as top advisers and professionals …