ICANN's new CEO Fadi Chehadé started working full-time for ICANN yesterday. His first order of business? Rejigging the organisation's management structures and bringing in new execs. It's going to take time to fully understand the implications and the impact of the changes that were made in yesterday's announcement, and you can probably expect to see more changes being made … [Read more...] about New ICANN Boss Rejigs Management
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ICANN Leadership Confusion?
Yesterday afternoon ICANN held a press conference in Prague to announce two things: the new CEO who would replace Rod Beckstrom the interim CEO who would fill the role between Beckstrom's departure and October 1 The new CEO from October 1 2012 will be Fadi Chehadé but until he takes the reins ICANN's Chief Operating Officer Akram Atallah will be interim CEO. So this … [Read more...] about ICANN Leadership Confusion?
ICANN Provides Updates On New TLD System Outage
ICANN posted another update on the new TLD application system's outage earlier this morning. At the moment ICANN is still investigating the issue and working on a fix. They intend to make clarify when the application will be back online by 2359 UTC on Monday 16 April. Here's the full statement: Statement by Akram Atallah, COO As we have reported, ICANN has learned … [Read more...] about ICANN Provides Updates On New TLD System Outage