According to a couple of press releases today, it looks like ICANN is going to approve, what I consider the worst and most unnecessary gTLD of all time; .POST The Universal Postal Union (UPU) is the sponsor of the .POST top-level domain. The UPU, is responsible for setting the rules for the universal network of international postal mail exchanges. The CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom is quoted … [Read more...]
UDRP’s Turns 10 and Holds A Conference To Celebrate
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) marked the 1oth anniversary of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) yesterday with a conference that "brought together over 200 stakeholders from around the world". I was not invited. I guess I'm not a "stakeholder". I wonder if anyone from the domainer community got an invite to this conference, although I'm pretty … [Read more...]
ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom To Appear On CNBC Thursday
The CEO of ICANN Rod Beckstrom is scheduled to appear on CNBC's "Power Lunch" at around 1:15 to 2 PM EST. We will let you know what he had to say. … [Read more...]
The US Sets ICANN Free
The Joint Project Agreement (JPA), the agreement under which ICANN has operated under since its inception expires today with the United States. ICANN released the"Affirmation of Commitments" which replaces the JPA starting tomorrow. Basically the US is giving up sole and full control over ICANN and sharing it with "the world" We predicted this would happen late last year in our … [Read more...]
Yet Another Reason To Support The ICA: The Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) Is Knocked Out (For Now)
According to the Internet Commerce Association (the ICA), the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proposal, will NOT be included in the third version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook for new gTLDs to be released by ICANN in the first week of October. According to the ICA the disclosure came in the testimony of ICANN's COO Doug Brent, at a hearing on “The Expansion of Top level Domains and Its Effect … [Read more...]
Well 2 Members Of Congress “Get It” When It Comes To New Domain Extensions & Lifting Of Price Caps
According to NextGov.com, Two of the House Judiciary Committee's top Republicans wrote to ICANN's CEO Rod Beckstrom, expressing their concern, that ICANN plan to add unlimited number of new gTLD"s, will carry "serious negative consequences" for U.S. businesses and consumers. Judiciary ranking member Lamar Smith, and Courts and Competition Subcommittee ranking member, Howard Coble, R-N.C., … [Read more...]
ICANN Fails to Deal With Warehousing & Registrars Conduct In Its “Expired Domain Policy Review”
ICANN announced this week, the opening of the comment period for the "Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Working Group", seeking opinions certain matters from the registrant point of view, but failed to follow its own staff recommendation that it should address warehousing by registrars. What ICANN called for comments on this week were: """Whether adequate opportunity exists for … [Read more...]