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Amazon’s application for the .amazon dot-brand may not be as secure as it was thought, following an ICANN decision over the Christmas period. Directors threw out a South American government demand for it to un-approve the .amazon bid, but clarifi...
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January 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, bamc, Domain Policy, reconsideration
British .eu registrants have been urged to consider another top-level domain or seek legal advice due to the risk of losing their names if a no-deal Brexit happens. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport issued guidance shortly before Christmas, e...
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January 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.eu, Brexit, Domain Policy, eurid
ICANN attendees identifying themselves as female plummeted to 20% of the total at ICANN 63, even as overall attendance rocketed. According to just-published stats from ICANN, 2,639 people checked in at the Barcelona venue for the late-October meeting. ...
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December 4, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gender, icann 63
When ICANN’s board of directors voted in late October to let Amazon have its controversial .amazon gTLD, it was not entirely clear what governments in the Amazon region of South America thought about it. Now, it is: they’re pissed. The gove...
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December 4, 2018 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac, reconsideration
RIP: the Whois Admin. Standard Whois output is set to get slimmed down further under upcoming policy proposals. The community working group looking at post-GDPR Whois has decided that the Admin contact is no longer necessary, so it’s likely to ge...
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November 23, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epag, epdp, gdpr, temp spec, Tucows
Domain investor George Kirikos has hired lawyers to send nastygrams to ICANN after a fight over the rules of etiquette on a working group mailing list. Kirikos claims there’s a “campaign of intimidation” against him by fellow voluntee...
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October 25, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, expected standards of behavior, gnso, icann 63, rights protection mechanisms, rpms
The US government appears to have reservations about Donuts’ recent hiring of ICANN bigwig Akram Atallah as its new CEO. Speaking at a session of ICANN 63 here in Barcelona today, National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Da...
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October 22, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 63, NTIA
ICANN chair Cherine Chalaby has strongly denied claims from non-commercial stakeholders that its attitude to Whois reform is “biased” in favour of “special interests” such as trademark lawyers. In a remarkably fast reply (pdf) t...
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October 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdpr, icann 63, ncsg, unified access model
Registrars are still largely ignoring requests for private Whois data, according to a brand protection company working for Facebook. AppDetex wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week to say that only 3% of some 9,000 requests it has made recently have resulted i...
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October 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
appdetex, Domain Policy, gdpr, temp spec
I’ve only ever read two books about the domain name industry. The first one was Kieren McCarthy’s excellent Sex.com, the 2007 barely believable non-fictional tech-thriller that seemed to deliberately eschew inside-baseball policy talk in fa...
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October 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
book review, Domain Names - Strategies and Legal Aspects, Domain Policy, udpr