ICANN Wants Your Help Evaluating gTLD Applications
Feeling left out of the new generic Top Level Domain application process? Well then ICANN wants your help in evaluating gTLD applications from developing countries....
ICANN Seeks Comment On Perceptions Of Need For Defensive gTLD Applications
ICANN is becoming concerned that companies may feel they have to submit an application for a generic Top Level Domain for defensive reasons when, in reality, the...
WIPO: Trademark Rights Protection Mechanisms for New gTLDs
For ICANN’s New gTLD Program, a range of “Rights Protection Mechanisms” (RPMs) has been established. Prior to any new gTLDs being approved and becoming operational,...
ICANN Seeks Evaluators for the Support Applicant Review Panel (SARP) – Request for EOIs
ICANN is seeking individuals to serve on the Support Applicant Review Panel (SARP), an important component of the New gTLD Applicant Support Program that seeks to...
Pre-Costa Rica ICANN Policy Update Webinar Invitation
In order to participate, please RSVP via email to the GNSO Secretariat (gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org) to receive the call details. Whether you plan to participate...
ICANN: Making IPv6 the New Normal – World IPv6 Launch on 6 June 2012
A year ago today ICANN allocated the last five IPv4 address blocks to the five Regional Internet Registries in a ceremony with leaders from the Internet Architecture...
ICANN To Reduce “Unreachable” Whois Registrations By 50% In 1 Year?
Review Team Asks for Community Comment on Draft Recommendations that Could Bring Big Changes to Whois Whois allows you to look up the name and contact information...
ARI Registry Services Signs 21 Contracts In The First Week Of Applications
The opening of the application window for new Top Level Domains on 12 January by ICANN has seen a flurry of interest from business in particular. ARI Registry Services...
Business Awareness of New TLDs Sorely Lacking: Adrian Kinderis
This is the first of a series of articles on new TLDs as a result of interviews with leading industry players. In this first article we interview Adrian Kinderis,...
The Wayward Anti-Cybersquatter Consumer Protection Act: A Survey of 11 Years of ACPA Caselaw by Roberrt Cannon, Federal Communications Commission; Cybertelecom
Abstract: The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) has lost its way. The ACPA was passed in an era of domain name land grabs, where nefarious individuals...
ICANN: New gTLDs: What to Expect in 2012
Tremendous anticipation, planning, and work drove toward 12 January, 2012, the day ICANN began accepting applications for new gTLDs. Whether you’ve applied...
ICANN: Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part B Policy Development Process
Recommendation 9, Part 2 Concerning a New Provision to Lock and Unlock Domain Names Purpose (Brief): Public notice is hereby provided of the proposed change to the...
The Future of the Internet – Who Decides? Speech by Rod Beckstrom
In this half hour speech, Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO and president, gives the keynote address at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
ICANN: .CAT WHOIS Proposed Changes
Purpose (Brief): ICANN is opening today the public comment period for the Fundacio puntCAT’s, request to change its Whois according to EU data protection...
Right here, right now – the changing the face of the internet by David Taylor, Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells partner and domain name specialist David Taylor explores the likely impact of the introduction of a raft of new high-level internet domain names This...





