A white paper put up by ICANN tonight entitled "At-Large White Paper on Future Challenges Entitled Making ICANN Relevant, Responsive and Respected" opens up for comments on January 3rd Of course no need to wait to comment here at TheDomains.com as our comment section is already opened. Here you go: ""The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is well into its second … [Read more...]
CNET: Russian Continuing To Push To Take Over Control Of Domain Naming System From ICANN
According to a story published in Cnet.com last night, according to " documents leaked on Friday from an upcoming treaty conference, the Russian Federation is calling on the United Nations to take over key aspects of Internet governance, including addressing and naming. "The Russians made their proposal on November 13 in the lead-up to December's World Conference on International Communications … [Read more...]
ICANN CEO: Until the first new gTLD is Delegated, Akram Attalah & I Will Personally Oversee the Whole New gTLD Program
According to a blog post by the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehadé, he and Akram Attalah will "personally oversee the whole new gTLD program until the 1st new gTLD is delegated. This comes only days after Kurt Pritz who was heading up the new gTLD program resigned from ICANN due to a still undisclosed conflict of interest. The rest of the blog post was on his meeting he had this past week on the … [Read more...]
Guest Post: Clarifying Clarifying Financial Questions: What New gTLD Applicants Need To Do To Pass Evaluation
This is a guest post by Phil Buckingham, CEO Dot Advice Ltd. Mr Buckingham was involved at the start of the DNS in the UK in 1995, as CFO of Netnames, the pioneering corporate domain portfolio registrar. Mr Buckingham was involved in the Financial Evaluation process, served on ICANN’s GNSO Vertical Integration WG. Dot Advice Ltd provides applicant advice and develops fully integrated gTLD … [Read more...]
ICANN Needs To Come Clean On Kurt Pritz, The Conflict Of Interest & Be Transparent As Promised
In announcing that Kurt Pritz resigned from ICANN today due to a "recently identified conflict of interest" ICANN didn't specify what the conflict was. Apparently Kevin Murphy of Domainincite.com, reached out to Mr. Pritz who declined to comment and referred him back to ICANN. This is not acceptable. Kurt Pritz was not just ICANN’s Chief Strategy Officer, but for years has been the … [Read more...]
ICANN Pays Over $1.5 Million For Director’s Travel & Compensation
ICANN released today the list of compensation and travel expense paid to or on behalf of Directors of ICANN for the fiscal year ending June 2012. "This table represents reimbursements and compensation paid directly to Board Members, payments made to third party vendors such as hotels, restaurants, and travel agencies on behalf of Board Members as well as a total of the three … [Read more...]
Registrars Come Out Against Additional Rights Protections Policy Changes For New gTLD’s
In a letter sent by the Registrar Stakeholder Group to ICANN, today, the group has come out against making any additional changes to the Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) for trademark holders in the new gTLD's. The letter was sent by the Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group Matt Serlin who wrote in part: ""We also understand various parties are advocating for the inclusion of … [Read more...]