.Africa litigation is due for a show down in the appeals court after DCA Trust the appellee, filed its Appellate Answering Brief on August 19, 2016 in reply to ICANN’s amended its notice of appeal and also appeals the U.S. District Court’s Order entered on June 20, 2016 (ECF No. 113). The case is has …
DCA Trust has scored its 3rd victory in the .Africa case, this comes after a US court denied ICANN and ZACR’s Motion for Reconsideration regarding the Court’s Order that granted DCA Trust a Preliminary Injunction preventing ICANN from delegating .Africa until the case had been fully determined. The court had on 14th June 2016 has …
A Huge Win for Legal Front-Runner DotConnectAfrica Trust! . April 20, 2016, ICANN has withdrawn its Motion to Dismiss [PDF] against DCA Trust’s First Amended Complaint of 26 February 2016. . In its stipulation to the Court, ICANN moved to withdraw its dismissal citing the following reason: . “in view of the Court’s order on …
On April 12, 2016, a United States District Court in Central District Of California has granted DCA Trust a Preliminary Injunction on the .Africa gTLD, the decision was made for case no. 16-CV-00862 RGK (JCx) [PDF], DotConnectAfrica Trust v. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers & ZA Central Registry. This will be the second …
In a press release on 13th April, 2016, DCA Trust has won a preliminary injunction that also comes after the company also won a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on 4th March 2016, ordering ICANN not to delegate .Africa until a lawsuit by DotConnectAfrica is resolved in its entirety. Below is the press release …
As published by BNA: An applicant for the .africa top-level Internet domain fired back at domain overseer the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), saying in a March 21 court filing that its blanket litigation waiver is unconscionable DotConnectAfrica Trust v. ICANN, C.D. Cal., No. 2:16-cv-00862, reply brief filed 3/21/16. This is the …
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 …
ICANN has finally announced that it has opened its own blogs for comments. This is after a long and unusual manner in which any blog by ICANN staffers could not be commented upon as a form of reply, addition, suggestions or criticism. One of the notable stakeholders who have in the past commented on the …
The applicant for .Africa new gTLD , DCA Trust, has opposed the latest effort by the ICANN board to revert the .Africa application for a Governmental Committee (GAC) at ICANN to “refining” its last advise GAC gave to the ICANN Board. This comes after the DCA Trust won an Independent Review Panel decision against ICANN …
Following the 2 year long .Africa IRP where one applicant DCA Trust took ICANN to the independent review panel over how the domains organization handled its application, the Panel declared “that both the actions and inactions of the Board with respect to the application of DCA Trust relating to the .AFRICA gTLD were inconsistent with …