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Indian new gTLD applicant Nameshop, which still refuses to accept defeat eight years after its application for .idn was rejected, has a new coronavirus-related pitch to try to persuade ICANN to please, please, give it a gTLD. You may recall that this c...
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June 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, nameshop
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, pretty much every corporation and institution in the US, and many elsewhere, have felt the need to make statements or enact changes in order to show how non-racist they are, and it seems ICANN is now no excep...
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June 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, racism
ICANN’s eleventh-hour decision to remove password requirements for ICANN 68 was proved wrong almost immediately after the meeting got underway on Zoom today. According to participants and ICANN itself, several sessions were “zoombombed̶...
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June 22, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 68, zoom, zoombombing
ICANN is saving millions this year due to the coronavirus-related shift to online-only public meetings. But it’s thinking about using some of the cash to do things like pay for broadband upgrades and hotel rooms for some of its community voluntee...
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June 21, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 68, zoom
Surprisingly, ICANN’s decision last week to cancel its Hamburg annual general meeting in favor of Zoom did not receive the unanimous support of its board of directors. Two directors — Ihab Osman and Ron da Silva — voted against the ma...
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June 19, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.hamburg, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 69, zoom
Three large registrar groups last week emerged mostly victorious from a court battle in which a $5.4 billion-a-year consumer goods giant sought to get domains being used in huge scam operations permanently blocked. Hindustan Unilever, known as HUL, nam...
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June 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.in, blocking, Domain Policy, hul, nixi, porkbun, suspension
After 21 years of covering this stuff, the volume and extent of ICANN’s navel-gazing no longer amazes me, but every now and then I stumble upon something that forces a little angry smile from my lips. It appears the ICANN board of directors is se...
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June 9, 2020 Kevin Murphy
bgc, Domain Policy
ICANN’s board of directors is meeting this week to discuss arrangements for ICANN 69, and I think there’s a reasonable chance it will decide to take the meeting online-only. The last official word from ICANN was that it is working on the as...
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June 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.hamburg, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 69
As talks over a centralized system for Whois access enter their eleventh hour, confusion has been sown over whether ICANN still wants to play ball. The ICANN working group tasked with creating a “unified access model” for Whois data, curren...
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May 26, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr
A European data protection authority has complained to ICANN after a registrar refused to hand over one of its customers’ private Whois records, citing the GDPR data protection regulation, according to ICANN. Compounding the irony, the DPA wanted...
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May 26, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, dpas, edpb, epdp, gdpr, ssad