As the ICANN draw of December 17th is less than two weeks away, one issue that has been debated on Facebook is the importance of the draw for those new gTLD’s strings…
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On Eve Of Start of The ITU Meeting In Dubai, The US Makes Issues A Statement In Support of ICANN
The ITU meeting gets underway in Dubai tomorrow and the United States has issued the following statement in support of the ICANN multistakeholder holder model of governance. The statement is signed by Lawrence…
ICANN Opens Up Comment Period On “Strawman” Rights Protections For New gTLD’s
ICANN just opened up the comment period on a the IPC/BC proposal for Improvements and Enhancements to the RPMs for new gTLDs [PDF, 68 KB]. Out of discussions evaluating the merits of…
Conference On Who Should Govern The Internet Is On For Tomorrow In Washington & Is Being Streamed Live
The ITU meeting is next month and with countries like Russia, China and India all wanting a a bigger say in the governance of the Internet, there is a conference being held…
Just Because Your gTLD Application Escaped GAC Early Warning, It Doesn’t Mean The GAC Won’t Object To It
This week the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) issued 242 early warnings on new gTLD applications. There seems to be a belief held in the domainer community that if an application didn’t receive…
ICANN Issues Details On New gTLD Prioritization Draw For December 17th
ICANN just released details on the Prioritization Draw (“Draw”) that will be held on 17 December 2012 in Los Angeles to assign priority numbers…
GAC Issues 242 Early Warnings To New gTLD’s Applicants
The Government Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN issued 242 early warnings to new gTLD applicants tonight involving 145 strings. After a quick review, The government of Australia seems to have issued the…