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ICANN has called off plans to conduct its 71st public meeting in the Netherlands this June. Blaming the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the risk to safety and travel restrictions, ICANN confirmed last week that the venue will again be Zoom, rather than T...
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March 15, 2021 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, Domain Policy, icann 71, pandemic, The Hague, zoom
It may not make up for the lack of sun, sea, sand and sexual abstinence, but the ICANN 70 meeting, taking place this month on Zoom instead of Cancun, Mexico, does have a few new enticements that may tickle your fancy. It’s also beginning to look ...
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March 10, 2021 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, Domain Policy, icann 70, icann 71, pandemic, schwag, The Hague, zoom
ICANN still hasn’t formally cancelled its public meeting in Cancun, Mexico next March, but it appears to be planning for scheduled in-person gatherings to not resume until the fourth quarter of next year. While nobody in their right mind seems to...
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December 22, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 70, icann 71, icann 72, pandemic, The Hague
Want to see what your fellow ICANN 67 attendees looked like on the other side of the Zoom chat room? The meeting may have been held entirely remotely, but that hasn’t stopped the ICANN org from populating its Flickr page with a big wedge of photo...
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March 16, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, covid-19, Gossip, icann 67
Almost 50 registries and registrars based in China have asked ICANN to temporarily waive its fees due to the economic impact they say Covid-19 — the new Coronavirus — is having on them. They’ve all put their names to a February 21 let...
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March 3, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Registrars, icann 66
Translation services are the first component of ICANN 67 to fail victim to the org’s decision to hold the meeting entirely online. ICANN announced last week that it has cancelled the in-person meeting, which had been due to kick off this coming S...
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March 3, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, Domain Policy, icann 66
ICANN has cancelled its public meeting in Cancun, Mexico, due to fears over Covid-19, aka Coronavirus. Late this evening, the organization said that the ICANN 67 meeting, scheduled for March 7 to March 12, will now take place purely online. In a statem...
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February 19, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, Domain Policy, icann 67
ICANN has banned its staff from travelling to China because of Coronavirus. The organization said at the weekend that it has implemented the ban, which includes connecting flights of “an abundance of caution”. The ban includes the mainland ...
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February 5, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, Domain Policy, icann 67
ICANN has named the locations of two of its 2021 public meetings. Notably, it will return to Cancun, Mexico, in the March for ICANN 70, just one year after hosting ICANN 67 there. In both years, the dates appear to coincide with some US universities...
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May 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cancun, Domain Policy, hague, icann 67, icann 70, icann 71
Spring break in Mexico, anyone? The ICANN board has selected its meeting locations for the group’s 2020 meeting slate. The first stop will be the Cancun International Convention Center in Mexico for meeting #67 from March 7-12, 2020. You might notice that those dates coincide with some schools’ spring breaks. I predict a few snarky […]
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June 26, 2018 Andrew Allemann
.hamburg, cancun, icann meeting, kuala lampur, Policy & Law