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Domain consultant and former registry boss Ron Andruff has asked ICANN’s board of directors to ban Chris Disspain from becoming chair at the end of the year. Writing on CircleID today, Andruff’s anti-Disspain message is veiled, but only thi...
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March 13, 2019 Kevin Murphy
auda, Domain Policy
ICANN has given Amazon and the governments of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization less than a month to sort out their long-running dispute over the .amazon gTLD. The organization’s board of directors voted on Sunday to give ACTO and the e-...
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March 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, icann 64, kobe
Email entrepreneur and internationalized domain name expert Ajay Data has been named as the new chair of the group that is struggling to promote the universal acceptance of top-level domains across the internet. Data, who replaces Afilias COO Ram Mohan...
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March 12, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, uasg
The ICANN community’s move to enshrine Whois privacy into formal consensus policy is moving forward, despite votes to block it by intellectual property interests. During a special meeting yesterday, the GNSO Council voted to approve a set of reco...
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March 5, 2019 Kevin Murphy
bc, Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, gnso, gnso council, ipc
The number of detected phishing attacks almost halved last year, despite the fact that new Whois privacy rules have made it cheaper for attackers to hide their identities. There were 138,328 attacks in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the Anti-...
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March 5, 2019 Kevin Murphy
apwg, Domain Policy, phishing, Spam
ICANN has started the clock ticking on the mandatory industry-wide deployment of RDAP. gTLD registries and registrars have until August 26 this year to roll out RDAP services, which will one day replace the age-old Whois spec, ICANN said this week. Reg...
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March 1, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdpr, rdap, temp spec
ICANN chief technology officer David Conrad is now “overseeing” the IANA part of the organization, ICANN has announced. It doesn’t appear to be a promotion or change of job titles as much as a reporting structure adjustment made in th...
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February 27, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, IANA, pti
The future of Amazon’s bid for .amazon has been cast into more doubt after South American governments cancelled talks with ICANN. The new secretary general of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, Alexandra Moreira, wrote to ICANN CEO Göran...
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February 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, icann 64, kobe
Registrars will be obliged to send out even more Whois accuracy emails, under a set of recommendations being considered in ICANN. Assuming recent recommendations out of the Whois policy working group are accepted, every registrant of a gTLD domain with...
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February 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr
Facebook is behind almost two-thirds of requests for private Whois data, according to stats published by Tucows this week. Tucows said that it has received 2,100 requests for Whois data since it started redacting records in the public database when the...
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February 20, 2019 Kevin Murphy
appdetex, Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, opensrs, Tucows