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Talks seeking to craft a new policy for allowing access to private Whois data have hit another nodal point, with the community now pressuring the ICANN board of directors for action. The Whois working group has more or less decided that a centralized m...
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October 14, 2019 Kevin Murphy
burger, Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, icann 66, law enforcement, ssad
Google Registry will allow trademark owners to register domains matching their marks in the .new gTLD from tomorrow. While the company hasn’t made a big public announcement about the launch, the startup dates it has filed with ICANN show that its...
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October 14, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, google registry, limited registration period
ICANN this evening said that it will continue to open up gTLD registry contract amendments for public comment periods, despite posting information yesterday suggesting that it would stop doing so. The organization recently formalized what it calls R...
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October 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdd, price caps, public comment, public interest registry, ra, raa, rsep
Car-maker Chrysler has withdrawn its application for the .ram dot-brand gTLD more than six years after receiving a government objection on religious grounds. Ram is a brand of pickup trucks manufactured by Chrysler, but it’s also a variant spelli...
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October 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.chrysler, .ram, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac, religion
Tarek Kamel, a senior advisor to the ICANN CEO and one-time shortlisted candidate for the top job, died yesterday, according to ICANN. He was 57. His cause of death was not released, but he apparently had been suffering from health challenges for some ...
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October 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, tarek kamel
Radix has added the 10th new gTLD to its portfolio with an acquisition last month, bringing its total TLD stable to 11. The company has acquired .uno from Missouri-based Dot Latin LLC for an undisclosed amount. .uno, which of course means “one...
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October 7, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.llp, .uno, Domain Registries, dot latin, dot registry
The registry running the failing new gTLD .whoswho has managed to avoid having its contract terminated by ICANN. According to an update on the ICANN web site, Who’s Who Registry came back into compliance with its obligations earlier this week, me...
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October 3, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.whoswho, compliance, Domain Registries, who's who registry
Younger people are (slightly) more likely to observe ageism in the ICANN community than older people. When you hear the word ageism, most people think of stereotypes and exclusion toward older people. At ICANN, it’s the reverse. That’s according to a non-scientific survey the group took to understand ageism and age diversity within the ICANN […]
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October 2, 2019 Andrew Allemann
ageism, Policy & Law
ICANN has started accepting applications for its childcare grants program. As previously reported, ICANN plans to offer up to $750 per family to community members who have no choice but to show up to its meetings with their offspring in tow. The money ...
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October 1, 2019 Kevin Murphy
childcare, Domain Policy, icann 66
Roughly 5% of gTLD registry operators have been doing no abuse monitoring, despite contractual requirements to do so, a recent ICANN audit has found. ICANN checked with 1,207 registries — basically all gTLDs — between November 2018 and June...
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September 18, 2019 Kevin Murphy
abuse, audit, daar, Domain Registries