Rod Beckstrom in the opening ceremony at the ICANN conference this morning gave what I guess would be fair to call his farewell address as CEO of ICANN. In pointing out the accomplishments of ICANN while Mr. Beckstrom has been CEO he said: "When I came, ICANN had $57 million of funds under management. Today, $444 million. "We have seen real growth." Now last time I looked ICANN was … [Read more...]
New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade Impresses In Opening Session: “The Internet is the Greatest Public Gift”
The new CEO of ICANN gave an motivating and impressive speech in the ICANN opening Session. Here are some of the more memorable quotes from Mr. Chehade: "The Internet is the Greatest Public Gift” "I will be extra transparent" "I will make all my decisions for the public interest" "I care much more about getting things done than about figuring out who should get the credit. we will … [Read more...]
ICANN Board Approves Renewal Of Verisign Contract To Run .Com for Another 6 Years
The ICANN board just issued a resolution renewing the Contract with Verisign to run the .com registry for another six years. Under the contract Verisign has the right to increase the wholesale price of .com 7% in any 4 of the six years of the contract. I appears the Board of ICANN did not adopt any of the suggestions made during the comment period Here is the resolution: "Whereas, the … [Read more...]
ICANN Officially Names Beijing, China For ICANN Meeting #46 From April 7th-12th 2013
The ICANN Board has named Beijing, China as host for ICANN meeting number 46 which will be held from April 7th-12th 2013. Here is the resolution: "Whereas, ICANN intends to hold its first Meeting for 2013 in the Asia Pacific region as per its process for rotation of meetings among ICANN's geographic regions. "Whereas, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the Internet … [Read more...]
30%-50% Of All Domain Registrations Are Through Resellers & Enom Has 8,000 of Them
A few interesting facts coming out of the afternoon ICANN session entitled; "Briefing for GAC on Domain Name Marketplace" Jeff Eckhaus of Demand Media which owns Enom.com, speaking to the Governmental Advisory Council, (GAC) said that Enom has 8,000 resellers itself and he thought that on a volume of registrations, the percentage of domain names registered by resellers was "somewhere between … [Read more...]
Replacement For Digital Archery: How About Carnival Games?
Now that ICANN has suspended the Digital Archery program, to batch applications, the question becomes what other alternatives can ICANN use to batch applications. The issue is that ICANN believes that a random drawing could constituent a lottery in some jurisdictions especially since you have to pay to enter and in this case $185,000. To avoid being called a lottery you can run a game of … [Read more...]
ICANN: Batching to Be Done in 3 Batches of 5 Months Each Or In One Batch Which Will Take A Year
Out of the ICANN Session this morning on the issue of batching, ICANN is now saying they will either go with 3 batches each taking 5 months or a total of 15 months, or they will go with just one batch which will take 1 year. Of course the issue of batching is now back to square one and the Digital Archery program which was going to determine batching was suspended the other day by … [Read more...]