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ICANN attendance soars but “females” stay away

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. ...

December 4, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, gender, icann 63

Kirikos lawyers up after ICANN etiquette fight

Domain investor George Kirikos has hired lawyers to send nastygrams to ICANN after a fight over the rules of etiquette on a working group mailing list. Kirikos claims there’s a “campaign of intimidation” against him by fellow voluntee...

October 25, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, expected standards of behavior, gnso, icann 63, rights protection mechanisms, rpms

US not happy with Donuts hiring Atallah

The US government appears to have reservations about Donuts’ recent hiring of ICANN bigwig Akram Atallah as its new CEO. Speaking at a session of ICANN 63 here in Barcelona today, National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Da...

October 22, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, icann 63, NTIA

ICANN denies it’s in bed with trademark lawyers

ICANN chair Cherine Chalaby has strongly denied claims from non-commercial stakeholders that its attitude to Whois reform is “biased” in favour of “special interests” such as trademark lawyers. In a remarkably fast reply (pdf) t...

October 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, gdpr, icann 63, ncsg, unified access model

ICANN turns 20 today (or maybe not)

ICANN is expected to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its Barcelona meeting next month, but by some measures it has already had its birthday. If you ask Wikipedia, it asserts that ICANN was “created” on September 18, 1998, 20 years ago tod...

September 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy Domain Policy, IANA, icann 63, Jon Postel, jones day, Network Solutions

ICANN #63 in Barcelona is next month

Meeting will attract policymakers, registries, registrars and domain investors. ICANN #63 takes place in Barcelona, Spain next month from October 20-25. I was on the fence about going but booked my travel over the weekend. I find ICANN meetings to be a good place to catch up with registries, registrars, service providers and domainers in […]

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September 17, 2018 Andrew Allemann icann 63, ICANN Barcelona