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ICANN 80 Schedule Published

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ICANN has published the full schedule for the upcoming public meeting to be held in Kigali, Rwanda. As they've been doing for the last few years, there will be a pre-meeting "prep week" which is aimed at bringing people up to speed on some of the more recent activity. For this meeting that will be held online from May 28th to the 30th. The actual meeting proper will … [Read more...] about ICANN 80 Schedule Published

Nominations for Nominet’s Registry Advisory Council Close Friday

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Nominet, the .uk domain registry, is currently seeking nominations for the .UK Registry Advisory Council (RAC). The RAC's membership is divided into 3 cohorts: large registrars, mid-small and secondary market. This year the elections are for one representative for each segment. The deadline for nomination is 1700 on Friday 19th April. Only Nominet members can be … [Read more...] about Nominations for Nominet’s Registry Advisory Council Close Friday

ICANN 79 Schedule Now Available

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ICANN has published the full schedule for its first public meeting of 2024. The first meeting of the year will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which is a location that the organisation has held meetings at in the past. While the event itself will run from March 2nd until March 7th, there will also be a pre-event series of webinars that ICANN call "prep week" You … [Read more...] about ICANN 79 Schedule Now Available

ICANN Approves Epik Change of Ownership

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Back in June of last year the controversial registrar Epik changed owners. Whether that change was purely on paper or if it was a completely new set of people behind the company or not was unknown. Yesterday, however, ICANN finally granted its approval to the transfer of the accreditation's ownership. Epik put out a press release on the news: [Sheridan, WY. January … [Read more...] about ICANN Approves Epik Change of Ownership

RIPE 88 Registration Open

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Registration for RIPE 88 is now open. The meeting will be held in Krakow, Poland from May 20th to May 24th 2024. A ticket for the full week costs €400, while a day ticket is €130. Students can avail of a special rate of €50 for the week. The full event schedule hasn't been published yet, but the meeting plan has so you can easily see when the various working group … [Read more...] about RIPE 88 Registration Open

French Domain Registry Launch New Video Ad Campaign

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Afnic, the French domain name registry, has launched a new video advertising campaign. The campaign is aimed at French SMEs and is 25 second 3D animation. Here it is: The script focusses on a few key points that should resonate with small business owners: Here's a rough translation of the script: Welcome to my domain! Uh, I'm not talking about this old … [Read more...] about French Domain Registry Launch New Video Ad Campaign

French Registry Opens Consulations

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Afnic, the .fr domain name registry, has opened two public consultations which are related to mitigating DNS abuse. Afnic is the domain registry for .fr, which is France’s country code top level domain (ccTLD). They also run the registry for several of Frances “overseas territories” (.re, .pm,, .wf and .yt).  The consultations are covering two separate, yet related … [Read more...] about French Registry Opens Consulations

Registration for Nordic Domain Days 2024 Opens

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While it might only be October 2023 several events next year have already opened registration. Among them is Nordic Domain Days. The 2024 event will be held on May 13th and May 14th 2024 in Stockholm. While a lot of the details of the 2024 event are not announced yet the event organisers have announced a number of changes for next year: The 2023 event had about 300 … [Read more...] about Registration for Nordic Domain Days 2024 Opens