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…
Category: ICANN
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…