The NTIA requested for comments to help inform the organization to identify priority issues and help effectively leverage its resources and expertise to address those issues. The issues whose comments have been solicited include how the multistakeholder approach continue to support an environment for the internet to grow and thrive, the sufficiency on not of …
Amazon.com beat ICANN in the accountability mechanism called Independent Review Process IRP. Amazon was one of the largest applicants for new domain names, but its .brand strategy was slowed down when governments opposed its .amazon application. Amazon’s applications had been rejected three years ago after ICANN accepted Governmental Advisory Committee consensus advice. Amazon beat ICANN …
The largest online retailer Amazon has prevailed after appealing against a decision by ICANN to deny applications for the .amazon generic top-level domain (gTLD).The domain had been halted in 2014 after the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) asked the New gTLD Program Committee to reject the domains based on objections from Brazil and Peru, which share …
DCA Trust is contesting a .Africa Court decision that was made over the Christmas holiday that went contrary to a previous tentative ruling. “DCA believes that all of the reasons that the Court was inclined to grant the PI still stand”. The Thursday December 22, 2016, 7 page tentative ruling [PDF] issued by the Los …
“At no time until after it had rejected DCA’s application, did ICANN assert that the AUC had properly “withdrawn” its endorsement. – DCA Geographic new gTLDs in the ICANN application round were required to have endorsements of upto 60% from counties in the applying region. Many applications in the new gTLD program were therefore …
.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 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 …
on March 05, 2013, a UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – WESTERN DIVISION ruling has granted an Interim Relief for DotConnectAfrica by issuing a decision below that ICANN should hold off from delegating the .AFRICA top-level domain (TLD) for ZA Central Registry (ZACR). The Court ruled. DCA Trust has taken ICANN to task …
On 14 March 2014, the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to transition its stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions [PDF, 3.49 MB] to the global multistakeholder community. NTIA asked ICANN to convene an inclusive, global discussion to determine a process for transitioning the stewardship of these functions …