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Cruz’ Crusade Against IANA Transition Continues With Senate Hearing

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Senator Cruz' against the IANA transition will continue next week with a senate hearing next week. The hearing is entitled: Protecting Internet Freedom: Implications of Ending U.S. Oversight of the Internet. While the hearing is being chaired by Cruz no indication of who else will be speaking has been made public so far. In a press release from Cruz' offices earlier … [Read more...] about Cruz’ Crusade Against IANA Transition Continues With Senate Hearing

ICANN 57: You Will Need A Conference Visa. Seriously.

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Over the past few weeks many people within the ICANN Community have begun the process of applying for their visas to attend ICANN 57 at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre in Hyderabad India. ICANN has provided quite a bit of information about the visa requirements and the process on their site, including a fairly detailed guide to completing the application form. … [Read more...] about ICANN 57: You Will Need A Conference Visa. Seriously.

Cruz Is Back Now With A Countdown Clock To “Doomsday”

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Senator Cruz' crusade against the IANA transition is back in full swing. With the deadline for the expiry of the IANA contract approaching both he and other anti-transition types have been working hard on their campaigns to block the transition. The latest addition to the Cruz website is a special lander page featuring a countdown clock: Yes, that's an image of … [Read more...] about Cruz Is Back Now With A Countdown Clock To “Doomsday”

Web Summit Acquire The .Com For Undisclosed Sum

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Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave announced via Facebook and Twitter that the company had acquired websummit.com for an undisclosed sum. Apparently they'd been negotiating the acquisition for the last 5 years. The domain has been registered since November 2001, which is long before Web Summit's first event was held in Dublin. The domain had switched registrars several … [Read more...] about Web Summit Acquire The .Com For Undisclosed Sum

More Right-Wing Pushback On IANA Transition [Video]

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Doing the rounds at the moment is the video below from a YouTube channel called "Black Pigeon Speaks". It's packed with the usual FUD, but has managed to get over 61 thousand views in the last week. Watch and listen: https://youtu.be/Fv1Wo9Eg40k Here's the transcript of the video with timestamps: 0:00the internet isn't broken 0:08so why fix it less than six … [Read more...] about More Right-Wing Pushback On IANA Transition [Video]

RIPE NRO Nominations Open

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Due to term limits there will be a seat available on the NRO for the RIPE region. RIPE will be holding the election to fill the seat during RIPE 73 next month. Nominations are open until 2359 on September 23. You can nominate someone or self-nominate by sending an email to: nominations@ripe.net with: Name of nominee Nominee’s country of residence Nominee’s … [Read more...] about RIPE NRO Nominations Open

Vint Cerf On Why The IANA Transition Is Positive

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Earlier this week Bloomberg's "Bloomberg West" spoke to Vint Cerf about the upcoming IANA transition. Obviously Cerf is supportive of the move and during the course of the interview he explains in simple terms what the US government was doing up until now and how that won't really change ie. nobody is going to notice the changes. You can see the segment with Cerf in the … [Read more...] about Vint Cerf On Why The IANA Transition Is Positive

Neustar Using Their DotBrand For Registry Services

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Neustar have had their dotbrand, .neustar, for a while. At the moment it's not very visible, but that could be changing. In an email to registrars the registry operator announced that they're switching the hostnames of some registry related services over to .neustar domain names. Currently more public facing domain names such as www.neustar redirect to the existing … [Read more...] about Neustar Using Their DotBrand For Registry Services