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Former ICANN senior vice president Kurt Pritz is expected to be named chair of the group tasked with reforming Whois in the post-GDPR world. Sources familiar with the situation tell DI that Pritz was selected from three candidates who put themselves fo...
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July 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, gnso
Singular and plural versions of the same word are likely to be banned as coexisting gTLDs in future. The ICANN community working group looking at rules for subsequent application rounds reckons having both versions of the same word online — somet...
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July 10, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, plural, singular, string confusion objection, subsequent procedures
European privacy chiefs have again weighed in to the ongoing debate about GDPR and Whois, offering another thin batch of vague advice to ICANN. The European Data Protection Board, in its latest missive (pdf), fails to provide much of the granular ̶...
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July 6, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, edpb, epag, european data protection board, gdpr, Tucows, wp29
ICANN has named the three venues for its 2020 public meetings. They are Cancun, Kuala Lumpur and Hamburg. The first meeting of the year, the so-called Community Forum, will be held March 7 to 12 at the Cancun International Convention Center. Cancun is ...
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June 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
The US government has asked the public whether it should reverse its 2016 action to relinquish oversight of the domain name system root. “Should the IANA Stewardship Transition be unwound? If yes, why and how? If not, why not?” That’s...
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June 6, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdpr, iana transition, notice of inquiry, NTIA
ICANN has filed a lawsuit against a Tucows subsidiary in Germany in an effort to resolve a disagreement about how new European privacy law should be interpreted, and according to ICANN’s top lawyer it may not be the last. The organization said la...
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May 29, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epag, gdpr, Tucows
ICANN has yet again been forced to lower its funding expectations from new gTLDs, as the industry continues to face growth challenges. In its latest draft fiscal year 2019 budget, likely to be approved at the end of the month, it’s cut $1.7 milli...
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May 23, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
ICANN’s board of directors is meeting today to discuss its “litigation strategy” concerning the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU privacy legislation due to make Whois unrecognizable come Friday, Those two words are basically...
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May 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
article 29 working party, Domain Policy, dpas, gdpr
With a week left on the GDPR compliance clock, ICANN has formally approved a new Whois policy that will hit all gTLD registries and registrars next Friday. The Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data represents the first time in its history ...
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May 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.eu, article 29 working party, Domain Policy, gdpr, rdap, wp29
While ICANN reckons it will act “reasonably” when it comes to enforcing compliance with its incoming GDPR emergency policy, there are some things it simply will not tolerate. The policy expected to be approved tomorrow and immediately incor...
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May 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Policy, gdpr