Tag Archives: ICANN

ICANN published the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System December 2016 report. This latest report of the WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System (ARS) acts as a follow-on to the reports published in June 2016 and December 2015. The …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.88 MB] the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. The key findings are listed below. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured …

Göran Marby, an experienced business executive and government leader has been named the next President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). “I’m delighted to announce Göran as …

On 27 January 2016, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN‘s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: .SHOP. This set was …

An Auction will be facilitated by Power Auctions LLC on 27 January 2016 to resolve string contention for one new generic top-level domain (gTLD) contention set: SHOP. This set was previously identified as an indirect …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today published the findings of its first Global Registrant Survey, which was conducted on its behalf by Nielsen. The study demonstrates, among other things, that domain …

ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. Universal Acceptance (UA) is the concept of removing all technical barriers …

Constantine Roussos, founder of DotMusic Limited that is one of eight .music applicants, send out a letter to ICANN and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The letter intents to support the .music community application-based application …

ICANN President and CEO Fadi Chehadé presents the keynote address at the ICANN53. This was during the Welcome Ceremony and President’s Opening Session. Watch the video here:

Yesterday I made a post about hundreds of 2-letter .berlin domain names that were registered by a .berlin registry partner against ICANN rules. It turns out that the problem was much deeper than I thought. …

Today, 25 March 2015, Power Auctions LLC, ICANN‘s authorized auction service provider, conducted a New gTLD Program Auction to resolve string contention for two new generic top-level domain (gTLD) strings: .PING and .SRL.

ICANN just published a new video on YouTube.com called “What you need to know about IANA”. This seems to be an old video from a couple of months back that was republished. The video was …

Google won today the auction for the .APP extension. Google paid $25 million dollars for the right to sell the .APP new domains. I wish Google good luck on getting their money back ($25,001,000 was …

Today, ICANN is announcing updates to the “Authorization Process for the Release of Two-Character ASCII Labels” to take into account additional direction from the ICANN Board. This applies to New gTLD registries wishing to lift …