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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
GDPR comes into effect next week, changing the Whois privacy landscape forever, and like many others I still haven’t got a clue what’s going on. ICANN’s still muddling through a temporary Whois spec that it hopes will shield itself an...
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May 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
article 29 working party, Domain Policy, gac, gdpr, temporary policy
ICANN has formally extended its middle finger to its Governmental Advisory Committee for only the third time, telling the GAC that it cannot comply with its advice on Whois privacy. It’s triggered a clause in its bylaws used to force both parties...
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May 8, 2018 Kevin Murphy
article 29, bylaws, Domain Policy, dpas, gac, gdpr, Puerto Rico
Iceland’s ccTLD has become what I believe is the first registry to state that it will continue to publish email addresses in public Whois records after the General Data Protection Regulation comes into effect. The move seems to put the registry, ...
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April 30, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.is, Domain Policy, gdpr, isnic, wp29
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has repeated its objection to the gTLDs .islam and .halal ever seeing the light of day. OIC Secretary General Yousef Al-Othaimeen wrote to ICANN earlier this month to declare that its position on the two controve...
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April 23, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.halal, .islam, agit, asia green it system, Domain Policy, gac, irp, oic
There were 3,791 domain names used to host child sexual abuse imagery in 2017, up 57%, according to the latest annual report from the Internet Watch Foundation. While .com was the by far the worst TLD for such material in terms of URLs, over a quarter ...
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April 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
child abuse material, Domain Policy, iwf
Hopes that Whois records will continue to be available to broad sections of the internet community appeared dashed this week as European data protection heads ripped holes in ICANN’s plan for the industry to comply with the General Data Protectio...
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April 14, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.eu, article 29 working party, Domain Policy, gdpr, wp29
Several men have been accused of sexual harassment at ICANN meetings. A group of women have written to ICANN with five stories of how they were groped, intimidated, objectified or otherwise harassed in violation of not only common decency but also ICAN...
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March 24, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, harassment, icann 61, Ombudsman