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Afilias has taken ICANN to arbitration to prevent .web being delegated to Verisign. The company, which came second in the $135 million auction that Verisign won in 2016, filed Independent Review Process documents in late November. The upshot of the fil...
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December 6, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, irp, ndc, nu dot co
The embattled gTLD dot .Amazon has been a thorny issue in ICANN’s side; for a few years now, indigenous Amazon peoples have been blocking its launch. Amazon, the monolithic online retailer, wants dot .Amazon for its own use – just like it o...
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December 4, 2018 DomainGang
Amazon peoples, Amazon tribes, dot Amazon, Moooki Alombokumbo, Parody news
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
The tiny Pacific island of Niue has sued the Swedish ccTLD registry to gain control of its own ccTLD, .nu, DI has learned. The lawsuit, filed this week in Stockholm, claims that the Internet Foundation In Sweden (IIS) acted illegally when it essentiall...
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November 28, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.nu, .SE, Domain Registries, IANA, iis, iusn foundation, niue, one.com, postel, redelegation, worldnames
ICANN is getting creative; the bureaucratic behemoth deciding on the future of domain names has long been proud of its multistakeholder model process. What is the multistakeholder model anyway, and is it related to steaks? According to Wikipedia, it...
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November 27, 2018 DomainGang
ICANN.org, multistakeholder model, Playmobil
Donuts has finally admitted defeat in its long-running fight to run the .spa gTLD, withdrawing its application and leaving rival Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council the victor. ASWPC, run from Hong Kong by .asia’s Edmon Chung, has now entered...
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November 26, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.spa, Asia Spa and Wellness Promotion Council, aswpc, Belgium, cep, cpe, Domain Registries, irp
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
The Internet Commerce Association has asked ICANN to refuse to allow Verisign to raise its wholesale prices for .com domain names. The domainer trade group wrote to ICANN last week to point out that just because the Trump administration has dropped the...
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November 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, NTIA
Two more new gTLDs have changed hands, DI has learned. XYZ.com has picked up former dot-brand .monster from recruitment web site Monster.com, while newbie registry Intercap Holdings has acquired .dealer from Dealer.com. Both ICANN contracts were reassi...
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November 14, 2018 Kevin Murphy
.dealer, Domain Registries, dot-brands, ich, intercap, Intercap Holdings