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Trademark owners have splashed out over $360 million on UDRP cases over the 20 years the policy has been active, according to an intellectual property trade group. Marques, a European body representing trademark owners, reckons $360 million is a “...
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February 13, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Com Laude, Domain Policy, marques, pdp, rpm wg, rpms
Neustar is losing its chief privacy officer, Becky Burr, who also sits on ICANN’s board of directors. Burr, a lawyer, said last week that she’s decided to return to private practice after almost seven years at the registry. Her last day wil...
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February 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries
Annual General Meeting will be in the domain capital of the world in 2021. ICANN has officially selected Seattle for its 2021 Annual General Meeting. The meeting will take place October 23-28, 2021 at the Hyatt Regency Seattle. Seattle is home to more domain name companies than any other city. It’s the home of Donuts, […]
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January 31, 2019 Andrew Allemann
ICANN Seattle, Policy & Law
ICANN has moved to shut down inactive CZDS accounts on its data portal, without any explicit warning. The system suffered security breaches in its early days, and is primarily being used to tap into gTLD data and daily registration records. By shutting...
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January 29, 2019 DomainGang
czds
ICANN has responded to a request for it to reduce the $25,000 annual fee it charges gTLD registries. The answer is no. That wholly unsurprising reply came in a letter from registry services director Russ Weinstein to John McCabe, CEO of failing new gTL...
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January 25, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.whoswho, compliance, Domain Registries, who's who registry
ICANN’s board of directors has created a new team to look at issues of harassment in the community. The new Board Working Group on Anti-Harassment has eight members, six of whom are women. In fact, all six female members of the board, including n...
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January 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, harassment, sexism
ICANN CEO Goran Marby has been awarded almost $100,000 of his annual bonus. The ICANN board of directors last week voted to approve the first half of his fiscal year 2019 “at risk compensation”, what ICANN calls the discretionary, performan...
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January 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
compensation, Domain Policy
ICANN’s board of directors has voted to put a March deadline on talks over the future of the .amazon gTLD. Late last week, the board formally resolved to “make a decision” on .amazon at ICANN 64, which runs in Kobe, Japan from March 9...
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January 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, bac, Domain Policy, reconsideration, rfr
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
The Chilean ccTLD registry has opened its doors to all ICANN-accredited registrars, no matter where they are based. NIC Chile, part of the University of Chile, this week announced its Registrar Agents Program, an effort to grow the TLD internationally....
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January 9, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.cl, Domain Registries, nic chile