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?
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ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee On DNS Blocking
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
Quick Overview Of Some Key Topics For ICANN 41
I posted this over on the company blog earlier today. Did I miss any really big ones? Related articles ICANN 41 Schedule (internetnews.me) Only 6 ICANN Comment Periods Open (internetnews.me) CloudRegistry Save The Day - Again! (internetnews.me) … [Read more...] about Quick Overview Of Some Key Topics For ICANN 41
CloudRegistry Save The Day – Again!
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
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
Some Considerations For New TLD Operators From A Registrar Perspective
The "hot topic" at the upcoming ICANN meeting in Singapore will, of course, be whether or not the new TLDs will actually launch or not. Sure, they'll launch at some point, but ICANN has been pushing to make the big announcement at Singapore. There has been a lot written over the last couple of years about new TLDs over the last couple of years. We are now coming into what … [Read more...] about Some Considerations For New TLD Operators From A Registrar Perspective
Why Won’t ICANN Answer Questions?
During the last public ICANN meeting in San Francisco there was a public forum. This is quite normal. Several people asked questions of the ICANN board, some were answered, others weren't. Why not? Nigel Roberts from the Channel Isles registry asked the following (for the sake of clarity I'm republishing the entire section of the transcript): >>NIGEL ROBERTS: … [Read more...] about Why Won’t ICANN Answer Questions?
EU Registry Suffers Serious Outage
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
DotOrg Puts DNSSEC Live
At the ICANN meeting in Belgium today PIR announced that they have started signing their zone.ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today announced that the .ORG domain is now in full production with Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) by accepting second level signed .ORG zones. In launching signed delegations, .ORG - the third largest domain - takes its final … [Read more...] about DotOrg Puts DNSSEC Live
gTLD Revolution Announces Pitch for 3 TLDs
GTLD Revolution, which is a new company founded by Dean Shannon (Deep Blue Sea / Fabulous), has today announced their plans to launch 3 new TLDs.The new venture, which has chosen AusRegistry as their backend provider, is planning on applying for at least three new TLDs when the application process opens up early next year.The new TLDs they've announced so far … [Read more...] about gTLD Revolution Announces Pitch for 3 TLDs