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ICANN is expected to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its Barcelona meeting next month, but by some measures it has already had its birthday. If you ask Wikipedia, it asserts that ICANN was “created” on September 18, 1998, 20 years ago tod...
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September 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, IANA, icann 63, Jon Postel, jones day, Network Solutions
Could a lack of Whois records thwart the fight against attempts to interfere in this year’s US elections? That’s the threat raised by DomainTools CEO Tim Chen in a blog post, and others, this week. Chen points to recent research by Facebook...
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September 5, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, elections, epdp, fake news, FireEye, gdpr
Newcomers who get free travel to ICANN meetings will have to show they’re serious about participating in the community, under new rules. ICANN is revamping its Fellowship program to ensure that it’s actually meetings its goals of increasing...
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August 29, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, fellowship
auDA director Tim Connell has quit the board over its decision to admit almost a thousand new members from the industry side of the house. Connell, the only remaining “Demand class” director, said he believes auDA will now be controlled by ...
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August 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.au, auda, crazydomains, Domain Policy, grumpies
A member of the root server community has been named to the ICANN board of directors. The Nominating Committee yesterday revealed its three selections for the board, two of whom are already seated. The new director is Tripti Sinha of the University of ...
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August 3, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Board of Directors, d-root, Domain Policy, root servers
Starting as they mean to go on? The new ICANN working group on Whois this week saw early, if predictable, divisions on the issue of access to private data in a post-GDPR world. The so-called Whois EPDP (for Expedited Policy Development Process) held it...
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August 3, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr
The names of the people who will decide the future of global gTLD Whois policy have been revealed. Twenty-nine of 33 open seats of the GNSO’s Expedited Policy Development Process on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data are now f...
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July 31, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr
Facebook is on the warpath, testing the limits of personal data disclosure in the post-GDPR world. Via an intermediary called AppDetex, the company recently filed 500 requests for non-public Whois contact information with various registrars, covering p...
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July 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
appdetex, blacknight, Domain Policy, gdpr, rdds
Israel was rejected as a possible venue for one of ICANN’s 2020 public meetings due to concerns about Middle East violence, DI has learned. A proposal to host a meeting in Tel Aviv was discounted, with ICANN staff telling the board of directors t...
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July 24, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
ICANN’s lawsuit against Tucows’ German subsidiary EPAG has been bounced up to a higher court in Cologne. The suit seeks to force Tucows to continue to collect the Admin-C and Tech-C fields of the Whois spec, something which is required by t...
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July 24, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epag, gdpr, Tucows