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George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote

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George Sadowsky voted against the launch of new TLDs in last Monday's ICANN board meeting. I'd been meaning to re-read the transcript, as I found a lot of what he said was very well thought out and logical. Here it is: >>GEORGE SADOWSKY:   Thank you, Peter. This is one of the most important votes in which I will participate within ICANN.  I have agonized over it, and … [Read more...] about George Sadowsky’s Explanation of His No Vote

D-Day For New TLDs?

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  Later this morning, during the ICANN meeting in Singapore, ICANN's board will meet. This is not a "normal" board meeting, as it has only one item on the agenda:   Consideration of New gTLD Program. That single line says so little and yet so much. For the last few years the new gTLD program has dominated ICANN meetings. This meeting could be the one … [Read more...] about D-Day For New TLDs?

ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee On DNS Blocking

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ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has published a paper on DNS Blocking. SSAC 50: DNS Blocking: Benefits Versus Harms is available for download in PDF here The paper isn't very long and has a short list of points that people should be aware of when considering implementing DNS blocking: 1. The organization imposes a policy on a network and its … [Read more...] about ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee On DNS Blocking

AFNIC To Hold Webcast On Registry Changes

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AFNIC's CEO Mathieu Wiell and Isabel Toutaud will be holding a webcast this Friday from 11am to 12 (CET). The session will cover a number of topics including: the change in procedure for registering listed terms (banned words, reserved words), the new dispute resolution procedure, access to the list of domain names registered under the .fr TLD, the opening up of … [Read more...] about AFNIC To Hold Webcast On Registry Changes

CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!

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If you attend ICANN meetings, or even just peruse the meeting schedule, you'll realise that it's a very full schedule. Trying to be in all the correct meetings on the timetable, combined with all the "unofficial" ones can be a nightmare to organise And ICANN's meeting schedule is still not available in a "sane" format. RIPE makes theirs available in multiple formats, but … [Read more...] about CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!

New TLD Advocates Circulate Open Letter / Petition To ICANN Board

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Next week's ICANN meeting in Singapore could herald the official launch of the new TLD process. ICANN's board might decide to give the entire thing a "green light". Of course it's not that simple.  The GAC isn't exactly impressed with ICANN, the US definitely isn't and the IP lobby is still more than a little piqued .. If you think that signing on to the letter and the … [Read more...] about New TLD Advocates Circulate Open Letter / Petition To ICANN Board

Big Changes Chez AFNIC

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Image via WikipediaThe .fr domain name registry (AFNIC) will be making changes to its modus operandi in the coming months as a result of legislative changes in France.From July 1st 2011 AFNIC will be publishing a full list of the previous day's domain name registrations, while they are also making significant changes to how they handle domain name disputes. From 15 April their … [Read more...] about Big Changes Chez AFNIC

EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

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Eurid, the operator of the .eu registry, has suffered a serious outage.According to official communications from the registry the systems were offline from last night until earlier today (though no official communication about the servers coming back online has been made)How long was the registry offline?By the looks of things it could be anything up to 12 hours, though I … [Read more...] about EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage

Afilias Attempts To Bury The Hatchet With Registrars

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Afilias was vocally opposed to vertical integration and cross-ownership between registrars and registries. Several of its policy staff were active participants in the VI (vertical integration) working group within the GNSO for the last few months. And if you have a few hours to spare you can trawl through the email archives and meeting recordings to get a "feel" of their … [Read more...] about Afilias Attempts To Bury The Hatchet With Registrars