In a letter sent to Pacnames Ltd. of Auckland New Zealand ICAN has sent a NOTICE OF BREACH OF REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT AND NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF REGISTRAR’S ABILITY TO CREATE NEW REGISTERED NAMES OR INITIATE INBOUND TRANSFERS OF REGISTERED NAMES The current breach is the third breach for Pacnames within a twelve-month period. Accordingly, Pacnames’ ability to create new Registered … [Read more...]
New gTLD Program Committee On Collision Report: Registries Can Launch If They Block A Lot Of Domains/Calls For More Study/.CORP & .HOME Are Doomed
The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) made its recommendations tonight to the ICANN Board on the Collision report and its pretty messy. In short the NGPC recommends additional study of the issue without a stated time frame, but with the exception of .Corp and .Home which seem to be indefinitely delaye, gives all other registries the option to proceed to delegation prior to receiving its SLD … [Read more...]
ICANN Names Inventor Of DNS As Security Advisor To The Generic Domains Division
ICANN today announced that Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), has agreed to serve as Senior Security Advisor to the Generic Domains Division and its President, Akram Atallah. "The Domain Name System has met the needs of the Internet for secure and reliable service and growth in size and function," said Mockapetris. "I'm looking forward to helping ICANN … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes The Final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements For New gTLD Registries
Today ICANN published the final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements for new gTLD registries, that enables trademark holders to protect their rights during the Domain Name System expansion. A set of trademark protections were developed by the ICANN community for incorporation into the New gTLD Program and include both trademark claims and sunrise services, which are required for all … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Guidelines
ICANN published final Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) Guidelines last night, in advance to the (CPE) commencing. The "Guidelines are to ensure quality, consistency and transparency in the evaluation process. " "The CPE Guidelines are an accompanying document to the Applicant Guidebook, and are meant to provide additional clarity around the process and scoring principles outlined in … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse & Opens Up Comment Period
ICANN authorized a study conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, to analyze gTLD domain names to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains engaged in illegal or harmful Internet activities is significantly greater than among domain names used for lawful Internet activities. Furthermore, this study compares these privacy/proxy … [Read more...]
ICANN To Post Redline Changes To New gTLD Registry Contracts
According to a post by ICANN on its site it will start publishing redline versions of executed Registry Agreements as it " would be helpful to the entire ICANN community, and would also support ICANN's efforts to provide operational transparency". "Published redlined versions will highlight changes between an executed agreement and the current standard 2013 Registry Agreement. " "Redlined … [Read more...]