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18/01/2021

A very thoughtful piece by Blacknight’s Michele Neylon on the practical considerations of content moderation. Recommended reading! Thoughts on Forcing Internet Infrastructure Providers to Moderate Content in the Age of Parler

Over the past couple of years, the internet infrastructure industry has been sucked into more and more debates around content and what should be online

13/01/2021

Latest .com ranking has some surprises - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Two registrars posted big gains in September. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2020. There were a couple of surprises in the monthly numbers. Perhaps they are anomalies. First, Host...

26/12/2020

".com is the only extension worth investing in" Twitter says not so fast

".com is the only extension worth investing in" Twitter says not so fast and flags the tweet that sent out the quote.

23/12/2020

Agency asserts interest in trademark protections for Internet's largest domain name registry

18/12/2020

Lawmakers are trying to use the end-of-year spending bill to pull Section 230 out of trade deals

Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Republican Rep. Greg Steube are circulating a letter calling for Congress to "stand up to big tech and promote clean international trade deals."

17/12/2020

Cloudflare, Dropbox, Reddit and friends launch Section 230 compromise coalition as change seems inevitable • The Register

De-FAAMG'd tech outfits fear being steamrolled

16/12/2020

You’ve heard me mention that ICANN malfeasance would, at some point, result in loss of legitimacy for the current Internet governance model. “At some point” is now. A tiny island nation win back control of its top-level internet domain | Business Insider

A tiny island microstate has today launched proceedings that could have profound repercussions for who controls the internet.

20/11/2020

Donuts Inc. to Acquire Afilias, Inc. | Donuts News

Donuts Inc. to Acquire Afilias, Inc. Donuts Inc. to Acquire Afilias, Inc. Acquisition amplifies Donuts’ commitment to security, stability and reliability in providing digital identity services across different registrar partners and registry services BELLEVUE, WANov. 19, 2020 Donuts Inc., the glob...

30/10/2020

Verisign conference call addresses .com wholesale increase and .web

Verisign conference call addresses .com wholesale increase and .web Questions about when wholesale .com prices will go up and when is .web coming

29/10/2020

Nation-scale Internet disruption in Guinea ahead of presidential election result announcement - NetBlocks

Network data from the NetBlocks internet observatory confirm that internet has been disrupted in Guinea as of 7:30 a.m. UTC Friday 23 October 2020 as the West African country prepares ...

28/10/2020

Chris Disspain offers highlights from 20 years of service to ICANN and the DNS. 2020 Hindsight After 20 Years at ICANN

After two decades of involvement with ICANN, I am stepping down from the Board of Directors, where I served for nine years. I have spent considerable time of late reflecting on the past 20 years, and I have isolated some memories that help frame my time with ICANN. ... November 2000, ICANN07 in Mari...

27/10/2020

The internet just got its first proper new gTLD of the year, and the timing couldn't be worse | Domain Incite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion

The DNS root zone has just had its first non-branded TLD delegation of the year, and the midst of a highly virulent pandemic is probably the worst possible time for its niche. It's .spa, newly

26/10/2020

ICANN org Responds to the European Data Protection Board’s Public Consultation on the Board’s Guidelines on the Concepts of Controller and Processor - ICANN

BRUSSELS – 19 October 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that it has responded to the European Data Protection Board's (EDPB) public consultation...

24/10/2020

Ramanou Biaou Honored with 2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity Building - ICANN

LOS ANGELES – 19 October 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is honored to announce the first recipient of the 2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity Building is...

23/10/2020

Could a Google shakedown help domain investors? | MorganLinton.com | Domain Names, Startups and Everything In Between https://morganlinton.com/could-a-google-shakedown-help-domain-investors/

A daily blog written by Morgan Linton

22/10/2020

ICANN may not meet again for a looong time | Domain Incite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion

The grim reality of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic seems to be sinking in at ICANN. Management and board all but confirmed yesterday that ICANN 70, currently still scheduled for Cancun, Mexico next

21/10/2020

ICANN’s Board and CEO attempt pathetic excuses for their obstruction of justice when their own gov’t advisors say EPDP is a failure of multistakeholder governance. When are we going to stop excusing policy failures caused by venal and corrupt insiders just because it’s a boring topic or we can’t snap out of our ADHD and comprehend that ICANN’s failure on WHOIS prevents law enforcement from stopping human trafficking and distribution of child sexual abuse materials. TRANSLATION: THE RESULT OF THIS FAILURE IS PROLONGED HUMAN SUFFERING AND LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE. In what other area of modern society are children permitted to suffer or be molested while bureaucrats cry about their hands being tied and fret about privacy? The rest of the world complied with GDPR without leaving children to the wolves — but not ICANN. No, ICANN just wants the money, the travel, the parties. It’s the Revenge of the Nerds but it’s not very funny. This isn’t just a failure of multistakeholder governance, it’s a moral stain on all of us. ICANN’s Board denies Whois policy "failure" as Marby issues EU warning | Domain Incite

ICANN directors have denied that recently delivered Whois policy recommendations represent a "failure" of the multistakeholder model. You'll recall that the GNSO Council last month appr

20/10/2020

Useless organization spends $126 million for doing pretty much nothing - OnlineDomain.com https://onlinedomain.com/2020/10/16/domain-name-news/useless-organization-spends-126-million-for-doing-pretty-much-nothing/

Domain Name News & Opinions

10/10/2020

Global Privacy Control emerges as latest attempt to let netizens choose whether they want to be tracked online • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/10/global_privacy_control/

It's Do Not Track II: The Wrath of Ashkan and Sebastian... Caaaaaaaan't you stop stalking us around the internet

09/10/2020

Is the Root Zone Growing too Quickly? All you have to do is ask.

Every possible precaution must be taken to ensure the secure and stability of the root. However, we also must ensure that perceptions, feel

08/10/2020

.jobs plans to raise millions from premium names after dumping its sponsor | Domain Incite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion

Third time lucky for .jobs? Having had its first two business models fail, Employ Media has appealed to ICANN to scrap the cumbersome restrictions that have dogged .jobs for 15 years and allow it to

07/10/2020

The Domain Theft Project's time is now ICA considered 6 years ago today

ICA’s Board is therefore considering initiation of a Domain Theft Project (DTP) to address this issue, in the belief this is exactly the type

05/10/2020

People must play a central role in internet governance

The South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIC-2020) took place on September 21. This event, which is one of the regional forums on internet governance, was held for the sixth time. This year, SEEDIG was held via videoconference for the first time. However, it brought many expert...

03/10/2020

Has ICANN cut off its regulatory hands? | Domain Incite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion

ICANN may have voluntarily cut off its power to enforce bans on things like cyberbullying, po*******hy and copyright infringement in future new gTLDs. Its board of directors yesterday informed the

02/10/2020

This ICANN comment period is a Kafkaesque nightmare | Domain Incite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion

With the deadline for commenting on draft new gTLD program rules rapidly approaching, you may be tempted to visit the ICANN web site to peruse the comments that have already been submitted by others.

28/09/2020

Summarizes WHOIS panels at NamesCon Online

In my last post I told you about the 18 business sessions that were held on the two-day South Asia Track of this month's inaugural NamesCon Online conference. When those sessions ran live Sept. 10-11 they occurred in what were the overnight hours in the U.S. so I didn't have a chance to review them....

27/09/2020

Should YOU have to pay when lawyers access your private Whois info? | Domain Incite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion

The question of who should shoulder the costs of ICANN's proposed Whois overhaul is being raised, with governments and others suggesting that the burden should fall on registrants themselves. In

26/09/2020

It’s Time for Business Executives to Stake Their Claim to Internet Policy | CSC

25/09/2020

ICANN’s chairman says meetings offer special “circumstantial opportunity"; recent estimates peg average annual expense for attending at $30,000 per person.

23/09/2020

Chair’s Blog: September Virtual Board Workshop - ICANN

From 9 to 11 September, the ICANN Board held a virtual workshop focused on organizing our work and ensuring that we are fully prepared to deliver on our operational priorities. With ICANN69, our...

19/09/2020

ICANN69 Prep Week Schedule Now Available - ICANN

LOS ANGELES – 15 September 2020 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the ICANN69 Prep Week schedule. These 12 webinars are intended to help prepare the...

18/09/2020

A Roadmap for Success: ICANN Affiliate PTI Publishes First Strategic Plan - ICANN

Today, we published the first Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) strategic plan, the last step in fulfilling the implementation plan outlined in the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)...

13/09/2020

A Responsible Domain Industry Needs a Responsible Registrant Appeals Process

As the steward of .ORG, Public Interest Registry is committed to serving as an "exemplary registry" for the DNS. As part of that mission, PIR published our Anti-Abuse Principles last year that serve as our north star to address questions of abuse. As PIR has stated on many occasions, generally speak...

12/09/2020

Digital Citizens blasts domain registrars and domainers for Covid, other domains - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

Using (mostly) bad examples, advocacy group asks domain industry to implement some broad solution. Advocacy group Digital Citizens Alliance has issued a report “Domains of Danger” (pdf) that criticizes domain registrars and domain investors. Digital Citizens Group is backed by pharmaceutical com...

11/09/2020

The Predictability Problem of the New gTLD Process (Part 1)

Note: Jeff Neuman is one of the two Co-Chairs of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group within ICANN’s GNSO. However, the opinions expressed herein are my personal opinions and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Working Group, its leadership and/or Members. The Draft Final Repo...

10/09/2020

Is There Such a Thing as Technical Internet Governance?

In ICANN's "President & CEO Goals for Fiscal Year 2021", Göran Marby went out to make a curious distinction in the document's second stated goal, according to which he intends to "Implement a common strategy for Internet governance (IG) and technical Internet governance (TIG)". Proceeding to state ...

09/09/2020

ICANN ordered to freeze .hotel after "serious questions" about trade secrets "theft" | Domain Incite - Domain Name Industry News, Analysis & Opinion

ICANN has been instructed to place the proposed .hotel gTLD in limbo after four applicants for the string raised "sufficiently serious questions" that ICANN may have whitewashed the "th

08/09/2020

.com Registrations Down in Latest Reporting - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News

.Com registrations fall in latest month of official data. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers May 2020. Domain name registrations came back toward earth after a stunning April. All of the regist...

07/09/2020

Uniform Rapid Suspension Not Appropriate for .com Domain Names

The Internet Commerce Association has been actively involved for the last four years on the ICANN Working Group reviewing the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy and the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The Working Group is currently wrapping up its review of the URS. The UDRP...