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ICANN has selected Puerto Rico for its ICANN 73 public meeting. The meeting is slated to be held at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan from March 5 to March 10, 2022. That’s the same venue ICANN visited in March last year, in the wake ...
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November 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 73, Puerto Rico
David Redl, the former head of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration has joined Amazon as an internet governance advisor, I’ve learned. I don’t know whether he’s taken a full-time job or is a contractor, bu...
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November 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac, icann 66
Former US government official Ashley Heineman has joined the staff of GoDaddy. Heineman was until quite recently a policy specialist at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the US representative on ICANN’s Governm...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 65, NTIA
ICANN has rejected two appeals against its decision to lift price caps and introduce new anti-cybersquatting measures in the .org space. In other news, gambling is going on in Rick’s Cafe. NameCheap and the Electronic Frontier Foundation both fil...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
bamc, Domain Policy, icann 66, price caps, public interest registry, rfr
The opening ceremony of ICANN’s 66th public meeting set a somber tone, as leaders bade farewell to recently departed and departing colleagues. Outgoing chair Cherine Chalaby and CEO Göran Marby delivered eulogies respectively to senior vice presi...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 66
The United States looks set to stand in the way of government attempts to further delay Amazon’s application for .amazon. US Governmental Advisory Committee representative Ashley Heineman said today that the US “does not support further GAC...
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November 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac, icann 66, montral
The proposed rules for companies thinking about applying for a geographic gTLD in the next application round have been sketched out. They’re the same as the old rules. At ICANN 66 in Montreal today, a GNSO Policy Development Process working group...
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November 2, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, geo-gtlds, icann 66, subpro
The Internet Engineering Task Force has named domain industry veteran Jay Daley as its new executive director. In a blog post last week, the IETF said that Daley beat 133 other “highly qualified applicants” for the job. He’s the first...
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October 28, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, ietf, isoc
Talks seeking to craft a new policy for allowing access to private Whois data have hit another nodal point, with the community now pressuring the ICANN board of directors for action. The Whois working group has more or less decided that a centralized m...
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October 14, 2019 Kevin Murphy
burger, Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, icann 66, law enforcement, ssad
ICANN this evening said that it will continue to open up gTLD registry contract amendments for public comment periods, despite posting information yesterday suggesting that it would stop doing so. The organization recently formalized what it calls R...
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October 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdd, price caps, public comment, public interest registry, ra, raa, rsep