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ICANN has named the locations of two of its 2021 public meetings. Notably, it will return to Cancun, Mexico, in the March for ICANN 70, just one year after hosting ICANN 67 there. In both years, the dates appear to coincide with some US universities...
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May 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cancun, Domain Policy, hague, icann 67, icann 70, icann 71
ICANN’s government advisers wants cops, trademark owners and others to get access to private Whois data in under a year from now. The Governmental Advisory Committee wants to see “considerable and demonstrable progress, if not completion...
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April 29, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gac, gdpr
Latvian diplomat and former senior WIPO member Janis Karklins has been appointed chair of the ICANN working group that will decide whether to start making private Whois records available to trademark owners. Karklins’ appointment was approved by ...
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April 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
arms trade treaty, Domain Policy, epdp, gnso council, un
Amazon has rejected attempts by South American governments to make the would-be gTLD .amazon “jointly owned”. In a letter to ICANN last week, Amazon VP of public policy Brian Huseman finally publicly revealed the price Amazon is willing to ...
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April 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac
Tommy Robinson, who has been banned from most major social media platforms due to his anti-Islam “hate speech”, is now conducting business via a domain name that some believe rightfully belongs to the Muslim-majority nation of Turkey. The r...
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April 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.islam, .tr, censorship, Domain Policy, tommy robinson, turkey
Australian ccTLD registry auDA has rejected a proposal that would have essentially banned domainers from the .au space. In response to recommendations of its Policy Review Panel, auDA management said that the PRP “has not provided any evidentiary...
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April 16, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.au, auda, Domain Policy, second-level, warehousing
ICANN has re-involved itself in the fight over the .amazon gTLD, after Amazon and eight South American governments failed to reach agreement over the name. ICANN chair Cherine Chalaby wrote this week to the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization to inf...
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April 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, gac
ICANN has decided to dump its longstanding web conferencing service provider, Adobe Connect, in favor of rival Zoom. The organization reckons it could save as much as $100,000 a year, and mitigate some security fears, by making the switch. Adobe has be...
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April 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
adobe, adobe connect, Domain Policy, icann 65, zoom
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