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Indian new gTLD applicant Nameshop, which still refuses to accept defeat eight years after its application for .idn was rejected, has a new coronavirus-related pitch to try to persuade ICANN to please, please, give it a gTLD. You may recall that this c...
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June 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, nameshop
In the wake of the killing of George Floyd, pretty much every corporation and institution in the US, and many elsewhere, have felt the need to make statements or enact changes in order to show how non-racist they are, and it seems ICANN is now no excep...
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June 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, racism
Three members of the ICANN community got killed by an assassin in a 2012 movie, now available on Amazon Prime, I inexplicably had never heard about until today. The film’s called Rogue Hunter, and it’s produced and directed by prominent com...
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June 22, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Gossip, rogue hunter
ICANN Zoom meeting participants were “flashed” online during the first day of ICANN68 – an ongoing event that takes place entirely online. Apparently, pornographic videos were on display by meeting participants that attempted to disru...
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June 22, 2020 DomainGang
ICANN68, zoom, Zoom bombing, Zoom meeting, Zoom porn, Zoom pornography
ICANN’s eleventh-hour decision to remove password requirements for ICANN 68 was proved wrong almost immediately after the meeting got underway on Zoom today. According to participants and ICANN itself, several sessions were “zoombombed̶...
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June 22, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 68, zoom, zoombombing
ICANN is saving millions this year due to the coronavirus-related shift to online-only public meetings. But it’s thinking about using some of the cash to do things like pay for broadband upgrades and hotel rooms for some of its community voluntee...
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June 21, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 68, zoom
Surprisingly, ICANN’s decision last week to cancel its Hamburg annual general meeting in favor of Zoom did not receive the unanimous support of its board of directors. Two directors — Ihab Osman and Ron da Silva — voted against the ma...
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June 19, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.hamburg, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 69, zoom
A further three new gTLDs have applied to ICANN for self-termination over the last few months, bringing the total to 76. They’re all dot-brands: .sbs, .rightathome and .symantec. The most recent application came from the Australian broadcaster SB...
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June 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
.RIGHTATHOME, .sbs, Domain Registries, dot-brands, Symantec
Verisign, Public Interest Registry and Neustar (now part of GoDaddy) will suspend domain names being used to illegally sell opioids under a pilot scheme with the US government. The Food and Drug Administration announced this week that this new “t...
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June 11, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, FDA, NTIA, opioids
After 21 years of covering this stuff, the volume and extent of ICANN’s navel-gazing no longer amazes me, but every now and then I stumble upon something that forces a little angry smile from my lips. It appears the ICANN board of directors is se...
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June 9, 2020 Kevin Murphy
bgc, Domain Policy