Tag Archives: ICANN

ICANN is publishing the schedule [PDF, 376 KB] of the upcoming Auctions for unresolved contention sets. The first Auction Event is scheduled for 4 June 2014. As described in Module 4 of the Applicant Guidebook, …

On the 12th of March ICANN granted a data retention waiver to European registrar OVH SAS. There are a lot more registrars that are waiting for this waiver such as Irish Registrar Blacknight that Is …

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the global leader in domain names, today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions. The announcement …

ICANN Board Chair, Steve Crocker, reacts to U.S. decision to transfer stewardship of important Internet technical functions:

To support and enhance the multistakeholder model of Internet policymaking and governance, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced on Friday its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to …

ICANN announced that 4 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 173 new gTLD strings. The 4 new gTLDs are: .世界 (xn--rhqv96g) – Chinese for “world/shijie”, .机构 (xn--nqv7f) – Chinese for “agencies/institutions”, .”संगठन …

ICANN just opened a comment period for the “Draft Implementation Plan for WHOIS Online Accuracy Reporting System”. ICANN plans to release a request for proposal (RFP) after the ICANN Singapore 2014 Meeting to solicit vendor …

I am watching the ICANN RSS feed and I got this article today: 13 March 2014 Sender’s Title: Chair Sender’s Affiliation: ICANN Board of Directors Issue: Proposal for implementing GAC advice concerning IGO acronyms File: …

The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the UK domain name registry Nominet and Public Interest Registry, operators of the .ORG domain will jointly host the first Commonwealth …

As of March 7th 2014, 2 ICANN accredited registrars (Internet.bs and Novaltel) are in breach of their Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Please be advised that …

ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from ABSYSTEMS INC dba yournamemonkey.com to EnCirca, Inc. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of ABSYSTEMS INC dba yournamemonkey.com. …

ICANN just announced that on Monday, 24 March, the Global Domains Division (GDD) will present high-level updates on progress and key milestones of the New gTLD Program. ICANN 49 in Singapore, taking place 23 – …

ICANN announced that 9 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 169 new gTLD strings. The 9 new gTLDs are: .KOELN, .BID, .OKINAWA, .VOTE, .VOTO, .BAR, .KRED, .BEST, .OPR (xn--c1avg) – Russian for …

ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from the deaccredited registrar Asadal, Inc. to Gabia, Inc. due to compliance actions taken by ICANN that resulted in the de-accreditation of Asadal, Inc. The …