The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) announced its transition proposal Assembly and Finalization Process – https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/iana-transition-assembly-finalization-24dec14-en.pdf [PDF, 89 KB]. This document explains the process that the ICG will follow for assembly and finalization of the IANA Stewardship Transition Proposal. It includes information about the ICANN Board’s role in conveying the final transition proposal to …
Sophia Bekele the Founder of DCA Trust has given her views the ICANN-IANA transition for 2015, calling for a new body to work with NTIA. “Therefore, I wish to call for the establishment of such a new body that will work in cooperation with the NTIA to exercise supervisory responsibilities over ICANN” Read the OpEd …
Google is staring at a $1B legal suit Irving Azoff manages the performance rights for roughly 20,000 songs from artists such as Pharrell, John Lennon, and The Eagles through his company, Global Music Rights (GMR) — and he’s planning to sue YouTube for over $1 billion. Azoff’s claim: The online video site has not secured necessary licensing …
Johannesburg – Data loss costs South African businesses over R3bn according to technology storage and hardware solutions firm EMC. Data loss involves computer information being destroyed by the likes of human error, file corruption or theft. And EMC this month has revealed its Data Protection Index which ranks 24 countries on the maturity of their …
By Amy E. Bivins of bna.com ICANN Trademark Jargon, Like everything else at ICANN, trademark-related discussions are laced with acronyms and buzzwords that can make communications nearly unintelligible to those unfamiliar with the relevant shorthand. These terms of interest to brand owners come up most often: ACPA. Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. A U.S. statute that …
Karl Auerbach has commented on the Joint Statement from Chairmen of ISOC and ICANN below The chairmen of ICANN and ISOC put out a joint statement. What was not mentioned is that ISOC gets its funding largely via domain name registration fees in the .org top level domain. In other words, ISOC’s funding depends on …
.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073. The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was registered today at the domain name registrar Gandi.net. We at TheDomains.com were the first …
Famous Four Media Joins Growing Rank of Clients LEESBURG, Va. — Architelos, Inc., the premier provider of automated domain name abuse detection and mitigation services, has added Famous Four Media to its expanding roster of NameSentry clients. Famous Four Media will be implementing NameSentry for current and upcoming generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as …
Owners of new .capetown top-level domains may have some trouble using e-mail addresses from their new space on the Internet. This is because a number of online services still check to see that the top-level domain (TLD) portion of an e-mail address (such as .com, .net, or .za) is only a certain number of characters …
By Philip S. Corwin on CircleID: On the evening of Tuesday, September 9th, Congressional leaders unveiled a 1,603 page, $1.01 trillion FY 2015 appropriations bill to fund the U.S. government through the end of September 2015. One provision of the omnibus bill would delay the IANA transition until after the September 30, 2015 expiration of …
