The organizational growth at ICANN and the IANA transition has dug up a huge hole in ICANN’s pockets causing a budget shortfall, and ICANN has made approvals to make it up by cutting costs and raiding the new TLD auction piggy bank. ICANN is planning to make up this deficit over eight years by running …
Verisign’s Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Government for managing the .com TLD has received an extension and with it permission for Verisign to negotiate with ICANN to raise the price of .com by 7% in each of the last four years of each six-year .com contract. Verisign released this statement: Amendment 35 provides Verisign the …
The current ICANN and first president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division has quit his post and is headed to Donuts to assume the role of CEO, the firm has announced. Current CEO of the global leader in high-quality, new top-level Internet domains, Bruce Jaffe is stepping down and will continue to act as a senior advisor to …
“The plea of remonstrance of 17 August 2018 filed by the Applicant [ICANN] concerning the order of the Senate of 1 August 2018 (19 W 32/18) is rejected with costs.” ICANN has been hit with the fourth expected loss in its quest to continue to collect and make public domain name registrant contact (WHOIS) details …
Kolkata: Getting an Internet domain name in English is in the past, now get ready to have it in your own regional language. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has been on the job to support domain names in numerous languages spoken in India, including the 22 scheduled languages of the country. “Work …
Promotional and custom products maker Vistaprint has informed ICANN (pdf) that it no longer wishes to operate the .vista top level domain name. The domain name was delegated to Vistaprint in June 2015 but the company hasn’t done anything with it. Last year, McDonalds dumped its .brand top level domain names .McDonalds and .MCD, HTC …
The Turnbull Government has released the findings of the review into Australia’s .au domain. The not-for-profit .au Domain Administration (auDA) oversees the operation of Australia’s .au domain, has been embroilled in leadership crisis for over two years resulting in a moderate leadership turnover. In 2017, the government opened a public cconsultation that would give a …
The ICANN board in its main agenda for the regular meeting, were at the time set to discuss the formal considerations of both the Amazon EU S.à.r.l. v. ICANN Independent Review Process Final Declaration followed by the further Consideration of the Gulf Cooperation Council v. ICANN Independent Review Process Final Declarations. Both applicants prevailed against …
ICANN’s board has eventually passed an inevitable resolution confirming that it will not delegate the .mail, .home and .corp strings as part of 2012 round of new top level domain name expansion, and has authorized a full refund for companies that applied for these strings. The strings were shelved due to concerns about name collisions. …
Court: For the foregoing reasons, ICANN’s motion for a protective order is DENIED. The parties are to work out among themselves where to conduct the deposition. In the ongoing pretrial motions of the DCA vs ICANN lawsuit, DCA had requested ICANN to produce Mike Silber (“Silber”), an ICANN Board Director from South Africa who ICANN …