In a joint letter Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo! urged ICANN to study the Collission Mitigation Plan before allowing any "The undersigned companies and organizations submit this letter to express our significant concern regarding several unresolved stability and security issues associated with the upcoming delegation of new gTLDs." "We understand that the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG) … [Read more...]
Paris Opens Up Founders/Pioneer Program For 1st 100 .Paris Domain Names
The City of Paris opening up a submission period to allocate the first 100 .Paris new gTLD domain names. The city is opening two "Calls for Proposals" for the purpose of selecting the first domain names under “.paris” top-level domain (TLD). Interested parties can apply on the web site http://mondomaine.paris.fr to be among the first 100 first holders of a web site ending in “.paris”. "The … [Read more...]
Making Whois Info Universally Private Will Be Horrible For Domain Investors & A Big Money Lose For Registrars
An ICANN working group interim report to make Whois information generally unavailable to the general public is getting some coverage in non-domainer publications over the last couple of days Basically the proposal calls for scrapping the current whois system which allows anyone to see who the owner of a domain is, (unless the owner has paid the registrar to have the registrar hold the domain … [Read more...]
ICANN Sends Breach Notice To A Top 10 Domain Name Registrar, Register.com
ICANN sent a "Breach Notice" to Register.com yesterday giving the domain name registrar until October 2nd, to provide information to ICANN and cure the Breaches or face a possible Registrar termination. Register.com is owned by Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) and is a top 10 domain name registrar in terms of domain name under management. Shares of Web.com traded down just about 4% in trading … [Read more...]
GAC Tells ICANN It Can Proceed Normal Evalution Process On .Wine and .Vin
The "GAC agreed in Durban to set a firm deadline for providing a potential safeguard advice regarding .wine and .vin. and in a letter to ICANN today, the Governmental Advisory Counsel, (GAC) advised the ICANN Board that the GAC has finalized its consideration of the strings .wine and .vin and "further advises that the applications should proceed through the normal evaluation process" The letter … [Read more...]
Valideus Asks ICANN To Clarify Details On Its Last Resort gTLD Auctions, All 16 Points
Valideus which is private company "currently managing 5% of all new gTLD applications", including Amazon's sent a letter to ICANN asking for a lot of details on ICANN’s "Last Resort Auctions" which are scheduled to begin in mid-October. Included in the requests are many valid concerns about the amount of the deposits that will be required to participate in the auction, who will hold the funds, … [Read more...]
Is ICANN Looking To Move From US Jurisdiction to Switzerland?
According to a taped interview with the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade at the Asia-Pacific Regional IGF in Seoul, ICANN is looking to "Become an International Organization and indicted that ICANN would consider setting up a legal structure in Switzerland which to some means that ICANN maybe looking to move jurisdictions from the United States to Switzerland. ICANN currently is based on California … [Read more...]