ICANN’s board of directors will be advised to go ahead with a key security change at the DNS root — “the so-called KSK rollover” — this October, according to the organization’s CTO. “We don’t see any reas...
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August 15, 2018 Kevin Murphy
apnic, DNSSEC, Domain Tech, root, rssac, ssac
ICANN has closed its investigation into GoDaddy’s Whois practices with no action taken. Senior VP of compliance Jamie Hedlund yesterday wrote to David Redl, head of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration, to provide an ...
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August 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
compliance, Domain Registrars, gdpr, NTIA
American insurance giant Allstate has dumped one of its two dot-brand gTLDs. The company, which had $38.5 billion revenue in 2017, has told ICANN it no longer wishes to run .goodhands, which is a partial match to its long-time “Are you in good ha...
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August 9, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.goodhands, Allstate, Domain Registries, dot-brands
Famous Four Media’s portfolio of gTLD registries is now under the control of a new company, Global Registry Services Ltd, which has promised to abandon its failed penny-domain strategy and crack down on spam. The company, which goes by the name G...
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August 7, 2018 Kevin Murphy
bankrupcty, Domain Registries, domain venture partners, dvp, Famous Four Media, ffm, global registry services, grs, grs domains, insolvency
A member of the root server community has been named to the ICANN board of directors. The Nominating Committee yesterday revealed its three selections for the board, two of whom are already seated. The new director is Tripti Sinha of the University of ...
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August 3, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Board of Directors, d-root, Domain Policy, root servers
Starting as they mean to go on? The new ICANN working group on Whois this week saw early, if predictable, divisions on the issue of access to private data in a post-GDPR world. The so-called Whois EPDP (for Expedited Policy Development Process) held it...
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August 3, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr
The names of the people who will decide the future of global gTLD Whois policy have been revealed. Twenty-nine of 33 open seats of the GNSO’s Expedited Policy Development Process on the Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data are now f...
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July 31, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr
Web site building tools provider Wix.com has got itself an ICANN accreditation, potentially bad news for current partner Web.com. The Nasdaq-listed, Israel-based company popped up on the official registrar list in the last day or so with the IANA ID 38...
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July 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registrars, Network Solutions, Web.com, Wix, wix.com
Facebook is on the warpath, testing the limits of personal data disclosure in the post-GDPR world. Via an intermediary called AppDetex, the company recently filed 500 requests for non-public Whois contact information with various registrars, covering p...
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July 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
appdetex, blacknight, Domain Policy, gdpr, rdds
Israel was rejected as a possible venue for one of ICANN’s 2020 public meetings due to concerns about Middle East violence, DI has learned. A proposal to host a meeting in Tel Aviv was discounted, with ICANN staff telling the board of directors t...
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July 24, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy