DomainingAfrica.com : The ICANN Application comments period has just closed. The public comment form an integral part of the application process, in the ICANN guide book …As an interested follower of the .africa domain, I have had an opportunity to look into the various comments that have been submitted for both the .africa applicants. …
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) “a nonprofit association representing all 138 accredited US and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools filed comments Here is the comment filed on .medical: “The vast majority of our members are also nonprofit organizations. ” Read More
WTR previously reported on the community discussion paper launched by Melbourne IT, calling for greater protection for those brands most at risk of cybersquatting at the second level of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Read More
The global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2012 holds at Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan, from 6th to 9th November, 2012, but the preparatory stakeholders’ forum is slated for September 25, 2012 in Abuja. The theme of the Global IGF 2012 is “Internet Governance for Sustainable Human, Economic and Social Development”. Read More
ICANN announced overnight, how will evaluate the requested changes in new gTLD’s applications. ICANN will consider the 7 criteria below and inform the applicant whether the changes are approved or denied. As usually all seems to be left to the evaluators to decide. Read More
ICANN recently posted the process and criteria for evaluating new gTLD application change requests. Change requests are being evaluated and approved changes will be posted. The application change request submission process and criteria for evaluating them is below.Read More
An arbitrator with the National Arbitration Forum has awarded 25 Google-related domain names to Google,after the company submitted a complaint,asserting legal rights over the disputed domain names . Read More
ICANN is now evaluating 2000 proposed gTLD dot names. Based on the guidelines established and the choice of submissions the most names seem be straightforward cases. Read more
Few weeks ago, on the AfriICANN public mailing list it was reported that Madam Anne-Rachel was officially taking up a position as the as Chief Operations Officer of AFRINIC. Read More
Few weeks ago, on the AfriICANN public mailing list it was reported that Madam Anne-Rachel was officially taking up a position as the as Chief Operations Officer of AFRINIC. This is after a long stint at ICANN where she was the Manager of Regional Relations for Africa at ICANN. It’s not clear however why her …