After a research paper from University of St.Gallen and Harvard accused ICANN of transparency deficits, ICANN Ombudsman defended his role by saying that “the Office of the Ombudsman, with access to information, and the ability …
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Verisign Declines Voluntary Participation in the .net Contractual Compliance Audit Requested by ICANN
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) requested from Verisign (the .com and .net registry operator) a contractual compliance audit for the .net TLD. With a letter dated 8 of January 2013 to ICANN, …
Read More »Research paper from University of St.Gallen and Harvard accuses ICANN of transparency deficits
A research paper written in 2011 by members of the University of St.Gallen and Harvard argues that: “occasionally, the very characteristics that define ICANN’s model act as opposing forces and result in policy decisions that …
Read More »ICANN’s newly approved meetings: Buenos Aires (2013), Singapore(2014), London(2014)
Completing the selection of meeting sites for 2013, the ICANN Board approved Buenos Aires, Argentina, as the location of ICANN’s 48th public meeting, to be held 17-21 November 2013. The Board also approved Singapore, London …
Read More »My solution for the Pool problem – Pool shutting down registrars effective January 10
Pool announced on the 20th of December that it is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. I had 12 affected domains that were registered in these registrars in the past few …
Read More »New gTLD Applicant Group complains to ICANN about delays
The New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) send a letter complaining to ICANN about the numerous delays in the New gTLD program. The letter was sent on the 21st of December and was just published by …
Read More ».org 10% price increase coming on July 1st 2013 but the registry contract expires June 30, 2013
PIR, the .org domain name registry, have announced a price increase in .org effective July 1st 2013. Registrar price for .org will increase from $7.45 to $8.19. If you add the $0.25 ICANN fee the .org …
Read More »2012 New gTLD Review
ICANN’s last “new gTLD” Weekly Update for 2012 took a look back at everything that was accomplished this year. A significant progress moving the New gTLD Program forward was achieved. In 2013 New gTLD applications …
Read More »ICANN creates a New gTLD Funds Investment Policy for the US$355 million of application fees
ICANN has collected approximately US$355 million of application fees from applicants for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in the New gTLD Program (net from pre-reveal withdrawals). The purpose of these application fees is to cover the …
Read More »ICANN selects the Swedish (.se) registry operator for new gTLD testing
ICANN announced that it selected the Swedish registry operator Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur (.SE) as the provider of Pre-Delegation Testing services for the new gTLD Program. Testing is done to verify that the new gTLD applicant …
Read More »Pool shutting down registrars effective January 10 – Domains in limbo
Pool is shutting down many of it’s registrars effective January 10, 2013. These are registrars that have been used drop catching for the Pool backordering service. Pool has not been so successful in acquiring dropped …
Read More ».net price increases to $5.62 on July 1, 2013 and at $8.20 until 2017
Verisign announced today that the .net registry fee will be increased from $5.11 to $5.62. This price does NOT include the $0.75 ICANN fee. So the actual wholesale fee paid by the registrars will be …
Read More »Save the best for last! Don’t expect the best new gTLDs like .home and .shop before late 2014!
The Prioritization Draw was held on December 17th 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers to all new gTLD applications. Each application was assigned a randomly-drawn priority number. These priority numbers will be used …
Read More »Registry .com price stays at $7.85 – .com owners save 1B dollars – Renew a .com for 6 years, get 1 year for free…
On November 30th Verisign, Inc., the registry operator for .com, got it’s contact renewed for another 6 years. The U.S. Department of Commerce approved the renewal of Verisign’s agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned …
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