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ICANN is to make its annual general meeting next month available streaming on YouTube, the org has announced. That’s in addition to the Zoom rooms that have been used exclusively for meetings since the coronavirus pandemic hit at the start of the...
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September 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 69, zoom
ICANN’s GNSO Council has approved a plan to overhaul Whois and sent it to the ICANN board for the royal assent, alongside a warning that it may be a huge waste of money. All seven members of the Contracted Parties House voted in favor of the plan...
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September 24, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdpr, gnso, ssad
The question of who should shoulder the costs of ICANN’s proposed Whois overhaul is being raised, with governments and others suggesting that the burden should fall on registrants themselves. In separate statements to ICANN recently, the Governme...
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September 23, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gac, gdpr, gnso, ssad
ICANN has been instructed to place the proposed .hotel gTLD in limbo after four applicants for the string raised “sufficiently serious questions” that ICANN may have whitewashed the “theft” of trade secrets. The order was handed...
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September 3, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cpe, Domain Policy, Domain Ventures Partners, eiu, Fegistry, fti, glitch, hacking, htld, icdr, irp, mmx, reconsideration, rfr
Amazon seems to brushed off South American government demands for more reserved domains in the controversial .amazon gTLD. VP of public policy Brian Husemen has written to Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization secretary general Alexandra Moreira to in...
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August 31, 2020 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands
Closed generic gTLDs could be a thing in the next application round. Or they might not. Even after four years, ICANN’s greatest policy-making minds can’t agree. The New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures working group (SubPro) delivered its draft ...
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August 27, 2020 Kevin Murphy
closed generics, Domain Policy, public interest, subpro
ICANN will consider a new pre-approval program for registry back-end service providers in order to streamline the new gTLD application process and potentially reduce application fees. The proposed “RSP pre-evaluation process” was one of the...
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August 27, 2020 Kevin Murphy
back-ends, Domain Policy, rsps, subpro, technical evaluation
Singular and plural versions of the same string will be banned at the top level under proposed rule changes for the next round of new gTLDs. The final set of recommendations of ICANN’s New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures working group (SubPro), which...
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August 27, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, plural, singular, string similarity, subpro
ICANN is to seriously consider requests that community volunteers should have their broadband costs subsidized out of the ICANN budget. On Thursday, its board of directors will meet to discuss what it’s calling the “ICANN Pandemic Internet ...
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August 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, Domain Policy, reimbursement
Over eight years after ICANN last accepted applications for new gTLDs and more than four years after hundreds of policy wonks first sat around the table to discuss how the program could be improved, the working group has published its final, novel-leng...
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August 25, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gnso, subpro