Tag Archives: ICANN

Here is a new Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Functions Infographic. This new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) guide explains how these core functions allow you and everyone around the globe to utilize …

The Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS) that is the system that provides all the New gTLD zone files is down for the past 36 hours. ICANN send an email yesterday informing CZDS users that there …

Deadline coming up in a week: “Call for Public Input: Draft Proposal, Based on Initial Community Feedback, of the Principles and Mechanisms and the Process to Develop a Proposal to Transition NTIA‘s Stewardship of the …

Five months ago, ICANN launched the new WHOIS website (whois.icann.org), a one-stop shop for questions and information about everything WHOIS, the Internet’s record system of domain registration data. This new portal was just the first …

Please be advised that as of 14 April 2014, Namebay SAM (“Namebay”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 23 September 2009 (“RAA”). These breaches result from: 1.   Failure to take reasonable steps to investigate claimed Whois inaccuracies, as required by Section 3.7.8 of the RAA; 2.   Failure to maintain registration records as required by Section 3.4.2 of the RAA; and 3.   Failure to make registration records available upon request by ICANN, as required by Section 3.4.3 of the RAA. Please refer to the attachment for details regarding these breaches. In addition, Namebay has been deemed noncompliant in the following areas: 1. Failure to notify ICANN of a change to its contact information, as required by Section 5.11 of the RAA; 2. Failure to provide a 

Escrow4All B.V. has been approved by ICANN to provide data escrow services to new gTLD Registry Operators. All new gTLD Registry Operators are required to regularly deposit a backup copy of their TLD registration data …

Please be advised that as of 9 April 2014, Homestead Limited dba Namevault.com (“Namevault”) is in breach of its Registrar Accreditation Agreement (“RAA”) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) dated 8 August 2013 (“RAA”). Namevault.com was also sent a notice of breach last year. These breaches result from:

ICANN announced that 24 more New gTLDs were delegated for a total of 225 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the 24 new gTLDs: .college,  .engineering, .media, .university, .gop and …

Have you heard of “What Box Holdings“, “Plan Bee LLC” and “Thomas A. Brackey II“? If you are looking to buy a New gTLD domain name you probably have. They managed to register more than …

Applicant Auction, that offers private auctions for resolving gTLD contention, claims they are getting an increasing number of requests from applicants who want to avoid the ICANN Last Resort auction. A common question is: What …

The Qualified Launch Program (QLP) Addendum is available for new gTLD registry operators as of 10 April 2014. The QLP Addendum allows a registry operator to register up to 100 domain names to third parties …

Fadi Chehadé, ICANN President and CEO, posted an article at his ICANN blog. Basically he says that the U.S. government believes that ICANN and IANA are ready to run without the US supervision. The U.S. …

ICANN sends 2nd notice of breach to registrar NameJuice.com that is responsible for the “Domain Registry of America” scam. NameJuice.com got another notice of breach this past December which I believe that was fixed because …

President and CEO of ICANN, Fadi Chehadé, Lawrence Strickling of NTIA, Robert M. McDowell, and Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda discussed the ICANN transition and its consequences for the evolution of internet governance. In March, the …