Tag Archives: ICANN

During ICANN 51 in Los Angeles on the 16th of October the ICANN Board decided the introduction of 2-character domain names in the New gTLD namespace. ICANN decided that the proposed registry service for the …

CENTR, the association of Internet Country Code Top Level Domain Registries, has released its full report on the ICANN 51 Meeting held last week in Los Angeles. The report covers in detail the sessions held by …

ICANN announced the appointment of Allen Grogan as Chief Contract Compliance Officer, overseeing Contract Compliance and Safeguards. But some really important numbers were revealed in the press release. “The workload of ICANN’s contractual compliance team …

IoN Magazine (Standing for ‘Internet of Names’) is a new magazine dedicated to the domain name system industry. It provides the latest news, views, reviews, a quintessential guide to ICANN conferences – and occasionally hopes …

Day three of ICANN51 witnessed the 2186th participant check-in to the Los Angeles meeting. This makes ICANN51 the third most attended event in the past two years. Yesterday’s sessions included ICANN Board meetings with various …

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, addressing attendees at the opening ceremony of ICANN’s 51st public meeting in Los Angeles, declared unwavering support for the United States government’s decision to transfer stewardship of the IANA functions to …

On Monday, ICANN 51 participants packed the Los Angeles Room to hear U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker’s speech regarding the IANA Transition. Board Chair Steve Crocker and President and CEO Fadi Chehade took to the …

ICANN 51 (12-16 October) starts today in Los Angeles and will last until Thursday. Up until Friday 1900 people had registered for ICANN 51. 3115 people participated in ICANN 50 in London. The official venue …

INOC today announced its sponsorship of ICANN 51, taking place October 12-16, 2014 in Los Angeles, CA. INOC is the proud sponsor and host of a happy hour at X bar located inside the Hyatt …

The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) send a letter to ICANN on the 10th of September about the release of 2 character domain names in New gTLDs that a lot of registries are now requesting. It …

Last week I wrote about the latest email scam that is targeting domain name owners. Domain name owners receive an email with their details from whois data and a domain name that may or may not …

ICANN announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string (xn--mgbtx2b عراق) for the Republic of Iraq. Iraq’s latin ccTLD is .IQ. The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was …

NEUSTAR requested from ICANN the release of all reserved country and territory names for .NEUSTAR. I really don’t get how ICANN works sometimes. They first decided to reserve all country names for all New gTLDs …

ICANN granted data retention waivers to 5 German registrars and Moniker that is US based but is owned by the European group KeyDrive S.A.: Key-Systems, LLC Key-Systems, GmbH InterNetworX Ltd. & Co. KG http.net Internet …