ICANN meetings happen three times a year in different locations in the globe, the international meeting normaly organizes an evening Gala where all delegates get to enjoy an easy time. Well according to yesterday’s blog by the Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement – North America Christopher Mondini, there will be no ICANN 51 Gala because they …
A member of the US House of Representatives has written to ICANN on the .Wine .Vin case. The letter is posted below
Washington Post Writes: A vast new stretch of digital real estate opened on Monday in New York City, where several dozen local businesses, non-profits and institutions went live online with enviable new dot-nyc Web sites. The early settlers include a savvy local photographer (casey.nyc), a beekeeping association (bees.nyc), a renowned jazz club (birdland.nyc), a university …
Six companies that saw their bids for the .hotel domain name die as a result of a Community Priority Evaluation decision in favor of HOTEL Top-Level-Domain S.a.r.l have asked ICANN for information regarding the decision. The applicants filed a Document Information Disclosure Policy Request (DIDP) with ICANN on August 4. The DIDP requests resumes for …
In another unpredicted development the entire community of ICANN stakeholders has sent a joint letter to CEO Fadi Chehade and the ICANN Board that strongly questions the “Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance – Process and Next Steps” document published by ICANN staff on August 14th over widespread community objections. Signatories to the August 26th letter …
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday launched the .bharat domain name in devanagari script covering eight languages including Hindi, Konkani and Marathi. With the launch, individuals of companies who are interested in owning a website with domain name in Hindi language would be able to book the name in Hindi script. The name would …
A recent study, by EURid and the Leuven Statistics Research Centre, set out to better understand the most common usage of websites that are linked to domains, and we thought it would be an interesting exercise to extend similar analysis to the new gTLD market. So, we analyzed all second-level domains registered in new gTLDs …
“When a decision is taken about a possible new top-level domain, ICANN’s job is to work out, in a transparent and accountable manner, whether it is really in the best interest of the world as a whole, not just of those launching the new domain.” — Tim Berners-Lee Jean Guillon writing in CircleID asks: “What if …
The newest Chinese top-level domain (TLD) on the block is quickly overtaking the competition. Within 48 hours of its public availability, .WANG – which translates to “dot net”, or “king”, and is one of the most common names in China – received more than 20,000 registrations. After four weeks on the market, .WANG is …
The ICANN machine has been building up steam ever since its new CEO took the helm. But at the ICANN London meeting it became clear that the pressure is rising too high. This machine was not built for this volume nor type of work and the deadlines are pushing the model to its limits. London …