Archive for the ‘ICANN’ Category
Friday, March 12th, 2010
For those closely following the ICANN Meeting in Nairobi this week, the EOI (Expression of Interest) model seemed like a foregone conclusion. In fact, ICANN had scheduled a webinar on March 18th to explain the process despite the complaints of the community and large-scale disagreement amongst proponents of the EOI.
As ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Today ICANN published a draft model for soliciting Expressions of Interest for new generic top-level domains. According to the model, parties interested in submitting applications to acquire new gTLDs will be required to provide basic information about the application and a deposit of $55,000 which can be used as a ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
To say that it’s been quite a year in the world of domain names would be an understatement. From compromised ccTLD registries, to the delay of new gTLDs, some of the events of the past year have been surprising, while others could easily have been predicted.
Regardless of whether you could ...
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
All indications from the ICANN meetings in Seoul are that significant delays for the release of new gTLDs (Generic Top Level Domains) are expected.
According to Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO, new gTLDs will be made available when, “we've adequately addressed the important issues that are on the table.” These important issues ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
For years, corporate domain name administrators have scoffed at every new second-level and third-level ccTLD liberalization, and rightly so. Until recently, most had continued the practice of registering significant numbers of variations, misspellings and typo-squats.
While I have never encouraged the practice of registering every variation in every geography, as this becomes ...
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
In a recent Washington Post article, Rod Beckstrom, former Director of the National Cyber Security Center and ICANN’s newly appointed CEO, provided his initial views on ICANN, and its plans for the launch of new gTLDs.
According to the article, Mr. Beckstrom said that he was “a bit overwhelmed by the ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
In an effort to facilitate discussions around issues of trademark protection, malicious behavior and other program details within the new gTLDs, ICANN will be hosting a series of events.
The events are scheduled to occur:
Wednesday, June 24th in Sydney during the 35th ICANN Meeting
Monday, July 13th in New York
Wednesday, July 15th ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Over the weekend, ICANN released a number of important documents including:
Amended Guidebook Sections and Explanatory Memoranda
Analysis of Public Comment to Applicant Guidebook version 2
Final Report on Trademark Protection in New gTLDs
Draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
New Registrar Contract
Root Server System Root Scaling Study
Please find ...
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
The IRT (Implementation and Recommendation Team), which was formed by ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency, has identified a number of proposed solutions to address trademark protection issues and their final report will be published on May 29th.
Their proposed solutions in the last draft included:
IP Clearinghouse, Globally Protected Marks List and ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
The recent news from the primordial alphabet soup that is the United States government and ICANN is that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) just issued a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) seeking comments about the Joint Project Agreement (JPA) with ICANN and its scheduled expiration in September 2009. Comments ...
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