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ICANN and its contracted parties need to do more to tackle security threats, write Dave Piscitello and Lyman Chapin of Interisle Consulting. The ICANN Registry and Registrar constituencies insist that ICANN’s role with respect to DNS abuse is limited b...
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September 16, 2019 Dave Piscitello and Lyman Chapin
abuse, Domain Policy, Guest Post, interisle
ICANN’s Ombudsman has sided with with ICANN in the fight over the lifting of price caps on .org domains, saying many of the thousands of comments objecting to the move were “more akin to spam”. Herb Waye was weighing in on two Request...
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September 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Namecheap, Ombudsman, price caps, public interest registry, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN has finally approved a version of .eu in Greek script, but it’s already been criticized as “useless”. Yesterday, ICANN’s board of directors rubber-stamped .ευ, the second internationalized domain name version of the Europe...
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September 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, .ευ, ccnso, Domain Policy, eurid, fast track, gac, idn cctld fast track, ssac
Failed .africa gTLD applicant DotConnectAfrica appears to have lost its lawsuit against ICANN. A California judge has said he will throw out the portions of DCA’s suit that had not already been thrown out two years ago, on the grounds that DCA wa...
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September 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, dotconnectafrica, gac, irp, zacr
With the tide of international opinion turning against Brazil due to the ongoing forest fires in the Amazon, could we see governments change their tune when it comes to Amazon’s application for .amazon? A much higher number of forest fires than u...
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August 26, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, g7, irp, rfr
A US presidential candidate has come out in support of amending the law to make domain name companies liable when customers use their services to incite violence. Beto O’Rourke, a former member of Congress, stated last week that he wants to amend...
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August 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cda, censorship, communications decency act, Domain Policy, section 230, terrorism
Amazon’s application for the .amazon gTLD has yet again been frozen, after a South American government invoked ICANN’s appeals process. The bid, as well as applications for the Chinese and Japanese versions, were returned to “on-hold&...
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June 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, icann 65, marrakech, reconsideration, rfr, spec 13
ICANN will hand over cash to help community members cover their childcare commitments, the organization announced yesterday. If you show up to an ICANN public meeting with an ankle-biter under 12 years of age, ICANN will give you up to $750 to cover th...
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June 19, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
ICANN has filed its tax return for its fiscal 2018, so it’s once again that time of the year in which the community gets to salivate over how much its top staffers get paid. The latest form 990, covering the 12 months to June 30, 2018, shows that...
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June 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
990, Domain Policy, financials, tax
The leaders of four of the eight governments of the Amazon region of South America have formally condemned ICANN’s decision to move ahead with the .amazon gTLD. In a joint statement over the weekend, the presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and ...
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May 28, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, andean community, Domain Policy, dot-brands, tradermarks