Palage’s epic rant as he asks ICANN to cancel Verisign’s .net contract

ICANN is devolving into a trade association hiding under a thinning veneer of multistakeholderism and the domain industry is becoming a cartel. Those are two of the conclusions reached by consultant Michael Palage, who’s been involved with ICANN since pretty much the start, in an epic Request for Reconsideration in which he asks the Org […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments September 29, 2023 12:33 pm

Papac named interim ICANN Ombudsman

ICANN has appointed Krista Papac as interim Ombudsman, following the resignation of Herb Waye earlier this year. Papac is currently the Org’s complaints officer, a similar role to that of the Ombudsman. The move means that an ICANN staffer is taking the structurally independent role for the first time. ICANN chair Tripti Sinha blogged that […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments September 27, 2023 9:11 am

Single/plural gTLD combos to be UNBANNED

It’s looking like ICANN won’t ban companies from applying for plural versions of existing singular gTLDs, and vice-versa, after all. Among the pieces of the GNSO’s new gTLD policy advice ICANN’s board of directors rejected at the weekend was a proposal to essentially ban potentially confusing singular/plural combos coexisting in the DNS. The board threw […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments September 14, 2023 11:30 am

ICANN rejects a whole bunch of new gTLD policy stuff

ICANN has delivered some bad news for dot-brands, applicants from poorer countries, and others, at the weekend rejecting several items of new gTLD policy advice that the community spent years cooking up. The board of directors on Sunday approved a scorecard of determinations, including the rejection (or non-adoption) of seven GNSO recommendations that it deems […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments September 14, 2023 11:02 am

ICANN might be a director light after election stalemate

Months of internecine bickering have led to ICANN facing the possibility that it might enter its 25th anniversary meeting this October without a properly elected director in one seat of the board. Chair Tripti Sinha has written to (pdf) the heads of the Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group and Commercial Stakeholder Group — and then published the […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments August 29, 2023 2:19 pm

ICANN turns down money from blockchain alt-root

It seems ICANN is turning down free money from blockchain alt-root providers, apparently as a matter of principle. One such alt-root, Freename.io, tells DI the company tried to sponsor the upcoming ICANN 78 meeting in Hamburg, but was rebuffed. “At this time, ICANN is not interested in having Freename serve as a sponsor and will […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments August 23, 2023 3:26 pm

CentralNic chief calls on industry to tackle climate change

CentralNic CEO Michael Riedl is calling on his counterparts at other large domain name registries and registrars to meet up to coordinate the industry’s response to climate change. During a broad keynote at the London Domain Summit this morning, Riedl said that each domain company is too small to make an impact on the industry’s […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments August 22, 2023 7:56 am

Rejected former director threatens to sue Nominet

The person Nominet barred from standing in its non-executive director election this year says he was unfairly excluded and intends to sue. Lawyer Jim Davies, who was a Nominet director over a decade ago and stood unsuccessfully last year, said on his blog that he has asked Nominet to suspend the election, slated for September. […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments August 1, 2023 12:01 pm

Three candidates stand for Nominet board

Nominet has revealed the three candidates who will stand for election for a non-executive directorship on its board this year. The candidates are Thomas Rickert, David Thornton and Steve Wright. German lawyer Rickert is a familiar face in ICANN policy-making circles, currently as a representative of the ISPs constituency on the GNSO Council. He’s head […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments July 26, 2023 5:40 am

Next round of gTLDs could come much sooner than expected

ICANN’s next new gTLDs application round may be closer than we thought, after a policy working group dramatically reduced the timetable for completing its work. The Internationalized Domain Names Expedited Policy Development Process team has managed to shave a whopping 13 months off its schedule, potentially leading to a similar period being shaved off the […]

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Kevin Murphy No Comments July 24, 2023 3:32 pm