The Catholic Church has a large and growing footprint on the Internet. In advance of Pope Francis’ visit to Washington, D.C., this week, here are a few domain name-related facts about the pope and the church: The Holy See is a member of ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee. It is represented on the GAC by Mauro …
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 …
WSJ reports that discord has broken out at Carnegie Hall where allegations by the music hall’s chairman, Ronald Perelman, have sparked a boardroom dispute. A simmering clash between leaders of New York’s Carnegie Hall boiled over on Wednesday as financier Ronald O. Perelman, who recently became chairman of the hall’s board of trustees, accused the …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reiterated this week to a working group at the ICANN that it “must make user privacy a central tenet of any new registration data system.” The Expert Working Group is crafting a new domain registration database, but “can’t seem to wrap its head around why privacy matters when it comes …
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 …
Major Companies Line Up For Branded Domain Names, $GOOGL, $WMT, $VRSN, $BCS, $TGT, $HD. Anyone with $9.99 can buy a Web address that ends in “.com.” Online scammers can pay for an address that looks like that of a bank, a clothier, or an auto dealer and create a site that looks enough like the …
DCA Trust who is one of the two applicants for the .africa top level domain whose progress was frozen due to an Independent Review Process (“IRP) which is a proceeding provided for in Article IV, Section 3 of the ICANN Bylaws, where any person materially affected by a decision or action of the ICANN Board …
DCA Trust has responded inline to the ICANN’s General Counsel & Secretary, John Jeffrey’s recent article. “.AFRICA IRP Declaration – Clearing Up Some Facts” here is a summary of the clarification Issue of Redaction of Parts of Final IRP Declaration On the thorny issue of many redactions that rocked ICANN immediately after the IRP final …
Two ICANN related announcements were made yesterday, both may or not be related to the IANA transition plans, however one thing could be certain that one triggered the other. Last May, (ICANN) announced that President and CEO Fadi Chehadé would be concluding his tenure in March 2016 to move into a new career in the …
The Council of Europe released a Declaration encouraging the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (‘ICANN’), when developing policies for the Internet’s domain name system, to consider international privacy, security and human rights laws and policies. The Council has no legal power to force any changes on ICANN. In its Declaration, the Council were …