Tag Archives: ICANN

ICANN 52 conference is underway in Singapore. Watch here the “Welcome Ceremony” from ICANN 52 in Singapore on Monday, February 9, 2015 and the ICANN 52 press conference where President and CEO Fadi Chehadé, Board …

ICANN published a video featuring its strategic plan for the years 2016 to 2020. This is an animated look at ICANN’s 5-year Strategic Plan which sets forth five Strategic Objectives and sixteen Strategic Goals, each …

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, published a video that describes IANA, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, and its various functions. The video is mainly targeted to the novice user. See below the …

As ICANN reported on 16 December 2014, it was recently the target of a so-called “spear phishing” attack. During this attack the email credentials of some ICANN staff were compromised by hackers. “As mentioned in …

ICANN is investigating a recent intrusion into their systems. We believe a “spear phishing” attack was initiated in late November 2014. It involved email messages that were crafted to appear to come from our own …

I don’t know why ICANN bothered with any of rules on reserved domains in New gTLD contracts and agreements. One after the other all the reserved domains are released anyway. After the release of 2-character …

ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed agreement for renewal of the 2005 Registry Agreement for .JOBS which is set to expire on 5 May 2015. This proposal is a result of discussions between …

ICANN shared some data about the considerable progress made to deploy Internationalized Domain Names in the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone file. In 2010, hostnames used in the DNS were limited to a subset …

ICANN announced that the ICANN 53 conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ICANN’s intent was to hold its second Public Meeting of 2015 in the Latin America/Caribbean region and found that an available …

Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the IANA Functions and …

ICANN sent a notice of termination of registrar accreditation agreement for the registrar Vigson, Inc. from Panama on the 18th of November 2014. As of 18 November 2014, Vigson, Inc.’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet  Corporation for Assigned …

Dish DBS Corporation won today the auction for the .Dot New gTLD for just $700,000. Dish beat .dot other applicant Google’s company Charleston Road Registry Inc. This was the cheapest

As many of you know Google applied for the .Google New gTLD and the application was accepted by ICANN as a .brand string. Google has since signed the registry contract with ICANN and the New …

ICANN announced the implementation of amended rules for the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). These 7 amendments to the UDRP rules were designed to reduce the risk of cyberflight during a UDRP proceeding. …