Could this be a conflict of interest scenario?, ICANN recently lost its first president of ICANN’s Global Domains Division Akram Attalah to Donuts to assume the role of CEO. He joined former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade who resigned from his post in March 2016 and joined ABRY Partners, a Boston-based private equity investment firm which …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Last week ICANN filed for an injunctive relief in a matter related to the latest EU Data law enforcement with the German regional court seeking assistance in interpreting the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in order to protect the data collected in WHOIS. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN“) has …
ICANN has finally published an interim European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Whois safety net called Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data in a last minute bit to ensure that WHOIS is GDPR compliant all the while maintaining the existing WHOIS system to the greatest extent possible. The plan is subject to further revision prior …
ICANN’s begging spree trip to Brussels this week with the European Union’s data protection authorities (DPAs) failed to secure a moratorium to delay the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implementation. In what is seen as a predictable ICANN-style self-inflicted harm, the organization is now left with less than 30 days to find a solution to …
The U.S. government has sent a letter to ICANN asking it to review GoDaddy’s (NYSE: GDDY) activities around blocking access to Whois records. Through David Redl, who heads the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, sent the letter to ICANN’s board today asking it to look into the matter. The timing is strange because, coming in …