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ICANN has announced today that it has signed an Accountability Framework with the country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) manager for .ME (Montenegro), the Ministry for Information Society and Telecommunications of Montenegro, on 13 May 2013. The Accountability Framework program provides two mechanisms by which ccTLD managers can …
Read More »New gTLD program posts 100 new Initial Evaluation results: 92 applications get a pass (total is 720)
The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 720 (was 628 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 700-800. There are 92 (some were from previous weeks) applications in this set …
Read More »ICANN sends notice of breach to New Zealand registrar Pacnames: one of the worst registrars!
It seems that Pacnames didn’t provide an auth code to the owner within the 5 day time limit. Pacnamesused to catch domains for Snapnames but I am not sure if that is still going on. I used to …
Read More »Microsoft sends letter to ICANN about Google’s Dotless Domain to its .search gTLD
Microsoft sent a letter to ICANN about Google’s Proposed Dotless Domain to its .search gTLD.Microsoft expressed its continuing concern over Google’s proposed amendment to run its gTLD application for .search as a “dotless” domain, as Microsoft strongly urges ICANN to follow the advice of the SSAC and ensure that dotless domains are only used in the private space. Microsoft said that “Google’s proposed amendment would interfere …
Read More »ICANN terminates Elserver SRL’s registrar accreditation with 0 domains after failing to pay fees
ICANN sent a notice of termination of registrar accreditation agreement for the registrar Elserver SRL on the 12th of June 2013. Elserver SRL’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) dated 15 March 2010 was terminated pursuant to Section …
Read More »ICANN orders bulk transfer of domain names from 4 de-accreditated registrars to Astutium Limited
ICANN ordered the bulk transfer of domain names from 4 de-accreditated registrars (C I Host, Central Registrar, Power Brand Center, and Dotted Ventures) to UK registrar Astutium Limited. ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of …
Read More »ICANN accepts 9 items of the GAC’s Beijing advice on new gTLDs
The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) met on 4 June 2013 and adopted a resolution accepting nine items of the GAC‘s Beijing advice with respect to New gTLD applications. The Resolution addresses most though not all of the GAC‘s non-Safeguard Advice and does not address any of the Safeguard Advice in Annex …
Read More »New gTLD program posts 100 new Initial Evaluation results: 114 applications get a pass (total is 628)
The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 628 (was 514 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 600-700. There are 114 (some were from previous weeks) applications in this set …
Read More »ICANN creates a new division called the Generic Domains Division (GDD)
ICANN’s president Fadi Chehadé announced some organizational changes that will be taking place at the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, and which are part of Fadi Chehadé’s desire to increase ICANN’s focus on management …
Read More »ICANN seeking expressions of interest for the 2014 Nominating Committee Chair and Chair-Elect
ICANN is immediately seeking expressions of interest for leadership roles in the 2014 NominatingCommittee (NomCom) – that of the 2014 NomCom Chair and Chair-Elect. ICANN’s Nominating Committee (NomCom) received largest number of applicants since 2003. In October 2012 the ICANN Board resolved that “…the Board adopts the recommendation of the BGC and hereby appoints …
Read More »ICANN’s Nominating Committee Receives Largest Number of Applicants Since 2003
The 2013 Nominating Committee application period closed on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 at 23:59 UTC. At the deadline, the NomCom had received 110 Statements of Interest, more than in any one year after 2003, when …
Read More »Kuek Yu-Chuang to Lead ICANN’s Asia Engagement Strategy
Kuek Yu-Chuang, a leading executive in technology policy development has been named Vice President for Global Stakeholder Engagement for the Asia Region. He will assume the role on August 1st, 2013. Kuek has served most recently as a Senior Director for …
Read More »ICANN Appoints First Two New gTLD Data Escrow Agents
Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. and NCC Group have been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD registry operators. All new gTLD registry operators will be required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registrationdata through one of the approved data escrow service …
Read More »New gTLD program posts 100 new Initial Evaluation results: 81 applications get a pass (total is 514)
The next set of Initial Evaluation (IE) Results was released by ICANN. ICANN has ramped up the number of results to batches of 100 prioritized applications per week. The total number of passing applicationsis now 514 (was 433 last week). ICANN released Initial Evaluation (IE) results for the next set ofapplications with priority numbers 500-600. There are 81 applications in this set that received a passing …
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