ICANN: NGPC Progress on GAC Advice
May 22, 2013

The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) wishes to share with the ICANN community its progress in consideration...

GAC Faces Scathing Complaints Over New gTLD Advice
May 13, 2013

ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee is facing scathing complaints from several applicants including Minds + Machines...

ICANN: New gTLD Board Committee Consideration of GAC Safeguard Advice
May 8, 2013

Purpose (Brief): To solicit input on how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable...

ICANN: New gTLD Board Committee Consideration of GAC Safeguard Advice
April 24, 2013

Purpose (Brief): To solicit input on how the New gTLD Board Committee should address GAC advice regarding safeguards applicable...

Daily Wrap: EC Shows Its Displeasure To Some gTLD Applications, While Africa Sees Many Objections
November 28, 2012

A Domain Incite story on new gTLDs caught the eye today regarding the European Commission noting their displeasure with 58 applications. 9614

Daily Wrap: ICANN in Toronto and New gTLDs And “Super-Fadi”
October 24, 2012

Domain Incite has a few stories we need to catch up on as part of our Daily Wrap, mostly relating to new generic Top Level Domains and the ICANN meeting in Toronto last week. 9446

Setting the GAC up to succeed by Yasmin Omer, ARI Registry Services
September 7, 2012

Yasmin Omer, ARI Registry Service’s Policy and Industry Affairs Officer, explains why ICANN should offer the Governmental...

ICANN: Introducing the GAC Advice Register
July 31, 2012

ICANN and the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) are pleased to announce the launch of an online register of GAC Advice...

GAC Internal Process for Briefings by New gTLD Applicants and Other Interested Stakeholders Raises Multiple Process and Timing Questions by Philip Corwin
July 30, 2012

by Philip Corwin from the Internet Commerce Association ICANN has its own internal politics, as we’d expect for any organization...

Daily Wrap: Facebook Files Cybersquatting Complaint And 3 Google TLD Applications Set To Fail
July 3, 2012

Facebook has filed a cybersquatting complaint against a reality company in the San Diego area over 30 domain names that include “facebook” including facebookbroker.com and facebookclothes.com reports Domain Name Wire. 8731

GAC Threatens Further Delays To New gTLD Approvals
June 19, 2012

ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee has written to ICANN advising of concerns with the approach to processing new generic...

Governments, Privatization, and “Privatization”: ICANN and the GAC by Jonathan Weinberg
January 3, 2012

What kind of organization, then, is ICANN? It is in form a private body, a California-based § 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.5 Yet when it comes to ICANN, the usual lines between what is private and what is public have always been blurred. In this Essay, I will address the relationship between ICANN and national governments, and how that relationship has changed over time. I'll discuss the changing nature of ICANN's relationship with the U.S. government, as well as the evolution of other national...

INTERPOL Wants to Join GAC And Cooperate With ICANN
May 24, 2011

Following a visit to INTERPOL's General Secretariat headquarters by some of ICANN's bosses, INTERPOL has expressed a desire...

GAC Continues To Delay New gTLDs While Supporting Trademark Holders
March 8, 2011

Last week's meeting in Brussels between ICANN and their Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) regarding the new generic Top Level...

Governments, Privatisation and ‘Privatisation’: ICANN and the GAC
March 3, 2011

Abstract: This paper examines the changing relationship between ICANN and national governments. ICANN was born out of a self-contradictory attempt to "privatize" domain name governance; its relationship with national governments has been fraught ever since. 3368