Buenos Aires, Argentina… The future of Internet governance took on a new priority at the opening of ICANN‘s 48th Public Meeting, ahead of an April conference on Internet governance in Brazil. More than 1,700 people from around the world are attending the ICANN meeting in Buenos Aires. “ICANN is part of an ecosystem, and the …
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit body that oversees the structure of the Internet, is about to multiply number of top level domain names (TLDs) by a factor of ten. Will that mean that there will be ten times more domain names in use? Do we really need that many? …
In the framework of the ccNSO Policy Development Process on IDN ccTLD‘s the purpose of the Interim Report [PDF, 556 KB] is to report on and seek feed-back on feasible recommendations for overall policy for the selection of IDN country code Top Level Domains strings (IDN ccTLD‘s) and the inclusion of IDN ccTLD managers in …
Bloomberg issued its Electronic Commerce & Law Report where they asked asked several dozen leading attorneys and online experts “for their views on the most important legal developments in online law during 2012 and on what policy areas they believed would be the most important to their practices in 2013 including our own Phil Corwin …
WTR previously reported on the community discussion paper launched by Melbourne IT, calling for greater protection for those brands most at risk of cybersquatting at the second level of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Read More