Well with the new gTLD looming group has stepped up and already announced the first conference to be dedicated to the new gTLD's. The conference should appeal to those seeking a new domain extension or those seeking to service or participate in them, including registrars, registries, and domain investors The conference is called "nxt/The next Internet revolution" and will be held in San … [Read more...]
ICANN Coming To America With $2M To Spend in March 2011
ICANN Just announced today that it will be holding its next meeting after Colombia in December 2010, in San Francisco in March 2011. According to the announcement ICANN will have a budget of just short of $2 Million to spend on the March meeting: ""Resolved the Board approves San Francisco, California as the location of the ICANN 2011 North America Meeting to be held from 13-18 March 2011, … [Read more...]
Sticky Points On New gTLD’s: Terrorists, Territories, & Trademark Violators Are Worse Than Child Murders
From the ICANN meeting in Brussels this week there are a few more "sticky points" that coming out of the new gTLD process. The sticky points as I call them are issues raised by commentators in the public sessions on the new gTLD's. Many of the issue surround who is disqualified from owning a gTLD. The guidebook requires a background check on all officers, directors and owners of 15% or … [Read more...]
So What’s In The ICANN Goody Bag?
Anyone who has ever been to a TRAFFIC domain show or other industry convention, knows that all attendees get a goody bag full of stuff from sponsors and advertisers that pay to give there stuff away. The ICANN show is no different and DomainNameWire.com even pointed out last week the curious relationship between ICANN and Sponsors. So I was pretty interested to see what swag was included in … [Read more...]
Australia Proposes New Rules On Domains & Requires Every Internet User To Have Anti-Virus Programs On Their Computers
According to the inquisitr.com, an Australian governmental committee is proposing a whole set of new rules on internet users, domain owners, and registrars. """The Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime report from the House Standing Committee on Communications Inquiry into Cyber crime makes 34 different recommendations"" Recommendation 20 of the bill states … [Read more...]
ICANN Day 2: The Heat Is Turned Up On Registrars : How Much Will This Cost Us?
At ICANN today the hot discussion centered around registrars, and the roll law enforcement wants to place on them to curb illegal activity on the net. The bottom line is that if law enforcement gets their way, registrars are going to have a lot more obligations and therefore a lot more costs and guess whose going to foot the bill You The domain registrants. In attendance today were … [Read more...]
1st Report From ICANN: Looks Like The Next Version Of the gTLD Guide Book Will be The Last
My first ICANN meeting ended with one of the GNSO Committee members calling for an end of the cycle of Guidebooks, comment periods and revised Guidebooks for the new gTLD's stating: "This will be an endless process if it keeps going as it has been going" said GNSO member Andrei Kolesnikov Calling the 4th Version of the Guidebook, "a beautiful document", he urged ICANN to simply approve the … [Read more...]