Thursday, 31 October 2013, Gibraltar: Famous Four Media was surprised and disappointed to receive the decision of the Panellist Professor Dr. uido Tawil, appointed by the International Centre for Expertise, in the case of SportAccord v dot Sport Limited EXP 471/ICANN/88. Famous Four Media and its applicant dot Sport Limited maintain that the word “sport” …
ICANN’s Draft Vision, Mission & Focus Areas for a Five-Year Strategic Plan The Draft Vision, Mission & Focus Areas for a Five-Year Strategic Plan [PDF, 313 KB] is a working draft to support the creation of ICANN‘s Vision and Five-Year Strategic Plan. It has been written based on brainstorming that occurred April – September 2013 …
Two separate ICC panels have denied the objections to the new gTLD’s .Islam and .Halal finding that although there “opposition to Respondent’s application to some extent, but such opposition is not substantial”.Although they were two separate opinions both shares a lot of the same finding and drew the same conclusions: Here are the relevant parts …
The first-ever non-Latin language website address domains are on their way, the Internet’s overlords said Wednesday. Online domains in which website addresses would end with words in Chinese, Russian, or Cyrillic have been approved according to the US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). “It’s happening – the biggest change to the Internet …
The first four domains from ICANN’s New Generic Top-Level Domains Program which are Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) were cleared to proceed to delegation. This marks the start of a measured roll out of new gTLDs, which are designed to expand opportunities for businesses, communities and Internet users around the world. These first new gTLDs, or …
. When Fade joined ICANN as CEO and was unveiled in the ICANN 44th meeting in Prague on 25th June 2012, on his maiden speech (Preview) Fade said . “The first, ICANN is an international organization and we must strive to make it international, and that’s not dressing, that is not an office in another …
Pope Francis and the Vatican are at the helm of an internet name revolution as the industry opens the doors to tens of thousands of personalised websites The Pope is at the helm of an internet revolution as the Vatican becomes the first organisation to launch a new domain name under revamped rules. It has …
ICANN has announced that Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), has agreed to serve as Senior Security Advisor to the Generic Domains Division and its President, Akram Atallah. “The Domain Name System has met the needs of the Internet for secure and reliable service and growth in size and function,” said …
Following a letter sent by the GAC to the ICANN Board (the NGPC in fact) on 9 September 2013 where no consensus was found on additional specific safeguards (protection of wine GIs), the ICANN Board had to “decide” about what to do regarding .WINE and .VIN new gTLD application: would they allow to proceed or …
DotConnectAfrica the embattled applicant of .africa gTLD string has gone full circle with the treatment of its application by the institution that is in custody of the global naming system and the internet. ICANN opened up the application round for the new gTLDs early January 2012 in a process that is currently through with the …