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It’s beginning to feel a little like 2011 again. The Internet Commerce Association today said it will host a Zoom webinar next month to pitch the looming second new gTLD round to prospective applicants. Moderated by Christa Taylor, the panel feat...
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July 20, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, ica. icann
ICANN is pinging the community for feedback on proposed Whois reforms that would change how people request access to private registrant data. The fundamental question is: given everything you know about the proposed System for Standardized Access and D...
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July 9, 2021 Kevin Murphy
abuse, Domain Policy, gdpr, odp, ssad
ICANN has been told that it risks disenfranchising community members from outside the US if it goes ahead with a return to in-person meetings at ICANN 72 in Seattle this October. APAC Space, a group comprising participants from the Asia-Pacific region,...
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July 8, 2021 Kevin Murphy
apac space, coronavirus, Domain Policy, icann 72, pandemic
ICANN has not disclosed the results of a recent board vote to award the CEO his bonus, apparently reversing an earlier move to make that kind of information public. The board voted last week to give Göran Marby his “at risk” compensation fo...
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July 2, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
The US government said it has seized control of 33 domain names previously belonging to an Iranian TV news station that the US considers linked to terrorism. The Department of Justice said the domains had been registered by the Iranian Islamic Radio an...
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June 23, 2021 Kevin Murphy
doj, Domain Policy, iraq, ofac
The struggles of remote working during unsociable hours and the possibility of a return to partially in-person meetings for Seattle in October were the subject of lots of well-deserved debate at the virtual ICANN 71 public meeting last week, but in rea...
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June 22, 2021 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 71, icann 72, pandemic
Domain name registries have thrown a bone to critics who say they’re not doing enough to tackle DNS abuse by revealing a framework for rapidly taking down domains associated with large-scale botnets. In a nutshell, the new Framework on Domain Gen...
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June 21, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
The next round of new gTLDs should be less focused on the English-speaking world, ICANN CEO Göran Marby said yesterday. Talking to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee in a bilateral session at ICANN 71 yesterday, Marby said he believed the 20...
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June 16, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 71
A majority of ICANN community members want a return to in-person meetings as soon as possible, and overwhelmingly don’t care how many pandemic-related restrictions are put in place to get it done. That’s according to the results of an onlin...
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June 16, 2021 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 72, pandemic
What’s better than a flabby, bearded, middle-aged man lecturing you about DNS policy in a Zoom window? Why, up to 25 flabby, bearded, middle-aged men lecturing you about DNS policy in the same Zoom window, of course! That appears to be an added b...
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June 3, 2021 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 71, zoom