The latest ICANN webinar held on 11 January 2013 at 20:00 – 21:30 UTC went as normally as it could until the convener of the webinar finished her explanations. ICANN holds webinars regularly as a form of update concerning latest developments or processes especially those that affect the new gTLD’s which comes as one of …
Email lists have become a way of groups to communicate and share ideas. Most of the time it works well and sometimes it becomes a war zone that needs a disciplined and constant level headed and sober administrator who does not condone taking sides to properly moderate and direct constructive conversations. In the recent cases …
ICANN has posted its action list,the attached ICANN Board-Stakeholder Action List sets out what the Board heard in Toronto where Board action is required and what the Board plans to do. In the future, it is intended that an Action List like this one will be published no later than 1 month after each meeting. …
“It is likely that this complaint has led to increased awareness of the possibilities of conflict of interest, which the Board will carefully consider in terms of the existing policy about conflict, when the issue arises. I consider this should continue to be a matter for consideration in gTLD decision making by the Board.” Wrote …
Undoubtedly, Nii’s active interest and influence on the whole .africa project can be established by his early support to his own project and as member of the AU Task Force when he used his influence with his Minister to endorse AFTLD, also as a member of AFTLD which was interested in a bid for .africa at the …
2012 was truly and eventful and memorable year. It was a year of many firsts and though Africa is recovering from the natural disasters faced in 2011 as well as leadership changes all over the world, we had some positive land marks as well. read more
“As Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) and spearhead of the Yes2DotAfrica Campaign, it gives me great pleasure to send this end of year message at Christmas to our entire Pan-African constituency and global community of supporters and well-wishers all over the world.” —Sophia Bekele 2012 was truly and eventful and memorable year. It …
Bloomberg issued its Electronic Commerce & Law Report where they asked asked several dozen leading attorneys and online experts “for their views on the most important legal developments in online law during 2012 and on what policy areas they believed would be the most important to their practices in 2013 including our own Phil Corwin …
Fundació puntCAT requests the removal of the cross-ownership restrictions reflected on the 23 September 2005 contract signed between ICANN and Fundació puntCAT. (http://www.icann.org/en/about/agreements/registries/cat). This request is submitted according to the “Process for Handling Requests for Removal of Cross-Ownership Restrictions on Operators of Existing gTLDs” read more
When the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) released the list of the potential new generic top level domains (gTLDs), it seemed that .app was the one to watch: no less than 13 organisations applied to manage the domain. But .africa is also causing some trouble, as the two organisations that applied for …