ICANN Africa strategy has been ICANN’s biggest foray into Africa, laden with many goodies and plans that were mean to create more awareness about ICANN in Africa. In August 2012, this very strategy was announced by ICANN and after holding a meeting, involving Steve Crocker, Chairman of ICANN’s Board of Directors, ICANN’s CEO-Designate Fadi Chehadé …
DCA recently dismissed ICANN’s opposition to its preliminary injunction on delegation of .Africa as #HotAir, in a news report covered by the premier DomainNewsAfrica. On January 20, 2016, DCA Trust took ICANN to court over a disagreement with how ICANN processed its application, after DCA prevailed in the Independent Review Process (“IRP”) against ICANN in …
A Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) has been issued by the United States District Court to order ICANN not to delegate .Africa until a lawsuit by DotConnectAfrica who is represented in this legal proceeding by Brown, Neri & Smith LLP, 11766 Wilshire Blvd., is resolved in its entirety. The United States District Court, Central District …
Nearly four years ago, The Boston Globe tried to get in on an Internet land rush when the number of domains — the .com, .org, or .edu in online addresses — were expanded. Now, the Globe’s parent company has decided to stick to more familiar territory. Last week, Boston Globe Media Partners LLC sold …
Seven domains linked to The Pirate Bay have been suspended. The problems, which are related to ICANN’s verification system including ThePirateBay.com. The website of anti-censorship tool Pirate Browser is also affected. Taken for granted by hundreds of millions of Internet users on a daily basis, domain names are part of the crucial glue holding the …
The ICANN CEO committee searching for a replacement for Fadi Chehadé has been active since it was chartered by the Board in June in Buenos Aires. Three vectors of competence have emerged as significant dimensions guiding the search: (1) managerial and operational competence; (2) ability to relate to and work with our community; and (3) …
The CEO of DCA Trust has written a cautionary letter to the ICANN following an unsolicited letter by the Africa Union Commissioner of Infrastructure, Elham Ibrahim to the independent geographic names evaluation panel on 29th August 2015 following the July 2015 ruling where DCA Trust successfully fought and won against ICANN for the .africa handling. …
Minds + Machines Group Ltd (LON:MMX) reported today the company’s financial results for the 1st half of 2015. Minds + Machines swung to a pretax loss for the first half of 2015 “due to it seeing a lower gain from participating in generic top-level domain auctions” Minds + Machines reported a pretax loss of $3.7 …
Weeks after the Booking.com attorney Flip Petillion wrote to ICANN saying that the .africa IRP ruling shows that ICANN has to revisit its decision-making over .hotels, another applicant Asia Green IT Systems (AGIT) for .islam and .halal has written to ICANN to seek a review of past decisions. Booking.com’s letter stated “ICANN — and the …
DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) which was recently declared as the prevailing party in the DCA Trust Vs ICANN IRP seems to have disagreed with ICANN on the post-IRP solution to the dispute between the parties. The IRP Panel had unanimously ruled “that both the actions and inactions of the Board with respect to the application …