You think ICANN running the domain space is bad? How about The European Commission (EC) controlling it? Kieren McCarthy of Dot-Nxt just wrote about six, yet unpublished papers by the EC’s Information Society and Media Directorate-General which wants to have control over the domain space including: """" A government veto over any new Internet extensions The creation of a list of … [Read more...]
Who Will Get .Delta & Other Sticky Points In Our Final Dot Nxt Post
This is going to be my last post about the Dot Nxt Conference but an important one. In the audience from Dot Nxt was a women from Nigeria from a region known as Delta and she was at the conference to try to learn about getting .Delta for her community. Of course there are many other potential applicants for a .Delta including Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet. In the session on "Evaluation … [Read more...]
ICANN Chairman Stephen Crocker To Be Featured Speaker At The INTA Trademark Group Meeting Next Month
The International Trademark Association (INTA) is meeting next month on September 21 & 22nd in Washington and the new Chairman of ICANN Stephen Crocker. Here are some of the topics up for discussion at this conference: At this advanced–level conference, learn from distinguished authorities everything that you need to know about developing and protecting your clients’ brands on the … [Read more...]
ICANN Calls For Public Input On “Formulations of 2012-2015 Strategic Plan”
Open - Public Comment Request for Community Input on Formulation of 2012-2015 Strategic Plan As part of the strategic planning process each year, ICANN seeks public comment to inform the development of the next version of its Strategic Plan. The 2012-2015 strategic planning process kicked-off in May and community input discussions were held prior to and during Singapore. Leadership also held … [Read more...]
New York Passes Gay Marriage (.com): Will .Gay Be Approved As A Community Application Or Will It Go To The Highest Bidder?
As most of you know by now, New York has become the newest state to legalize gay marriage. As the owner of GayMarriage.com we have been following the story closely and now all eyes in the domain world will turn towards the new gTLD .Gay. Its no secret that a group lead by domainer Alexander Schubert is going to apply to operate the .Gay registry based off a community application. Why try … [Read more...]
Some Stories On The New gTLD’s Are Just So WRONG, Here Is The Worst
There have been literially thousands of stories written on the new gTLD program but many contain inaccurate information or are just plain out wrong. Here's the worst one we found: Domaininformer.com writes in a post entitled: "Top Level Domains to Shake Up the Web? Not Exactly" Here is the 1st sentence in the story: ""There's been a lot of press lately regarding ICANN's decision to … [Read more...]
Steve Crocker Elected New Chairman Of ICANN Board
Steve Crocker has just been elected as Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors, replacing Peter Dengate Thrush who served as Chairman of the Board very well Here is his bio from ICANN site. """Dr. Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a start-up company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and on the deployment of improved security protocols on the … [Read more...]