Today Mark Bannon took part in the ICANN 37. The meeting will continue tomorrow also. He made a statement that in his view the event went very well and that none of the issued covered should have a negative impart on the academic community.
Mar
6
2010
6
2010
Mar
3
2010
3
2010
DNSSEC on Roots I and M
DNSSEC for the root zone is a joint effort between ICANN and VeriSign, with support from the U.S. Department of Commerce. It was implemented on roots I and M earlier today. Next scheduled deployment will take place on the 24th of this month and will affect roots D, E and K.
Mar
1
2010
1
2010
ICANN 37: Nairobi
It has been announced recently that Mark Bannon will be taking part in the 37th ICANN meeting to represent the international academic community through IDCAS. This meeting will be hosted in Nairobi, Africa.
Feb
17
2010
17
2010
IDCAS establishes NCUC Security Portal
Today the technology team within the International Development Council for Academic Studies (IDCAS) assisted in the development and implementation of a new security web-based portal for use by ICANNs’ Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC). The team envisages that this will prove to be very useful for the NCUC and stressed that they look forward to [...]
Feb
17
2010
17
2010
Noncommercial Users Constituency Meeting
Attended the Pre-Council Policy discussion meeting this evening. As usual a great deal of debate was involved and the outcome was favourable.
Feb
15
2010
15
2010
Draft Report on WHOIS Accuracy
A study commissioned by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to determine the percentage of domain names registered under the top 5 gTLDs that contain accurate WHOIS data has been recently completed. The study was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) and today the draft report was posted by ICANN for community [...]
Feb
12
2010
12
2010
Registration Abuse Policies Working Group
An initial report has been published today by ICANN’s Registration Abuse Policies Working Group which includes recommendations to address domain name registration abuse in gTLDs. Specifically addressed were the issues of cybersquatting, whois access, malicious use of domain names, fake renewal notices, domain kiting, deceptive and/or offensive domain names as well as contract uniformity and GNSO-wide [...]
Feb
9
2010
9
2010
Two Registrars Lose ICANN Accreditation
ICANN has announced the termination of its accreditation agreement with two registrars ISPREG LTD and SBNames Ltd for failure to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). Letters have been sent to each registrar outlining the decision and reason behind the decision. In order to protect registrants, ICANN has initiated a process [...]
Feb
5
2010
5
2010
DNGlobe LLC
Termination of ICANN Accreditation for DNGLOBE LLC (IANA ID 1032) announced to become effective as of 22 February 2010. ICANN announced that DNGLOBE LLC lost its accreditation for failure to comply with the requirements of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). A termination letter was sent to DNGLOBE LLC outlining the decision and reasons behind the decision. [...]
Feb
3
2010
3
2010
ICANN Working Group Reports
ICANN has announced the publication of three working group final reports. These reports were produced by the Board review WG, SSAC review WG and the Nominating Committee review WG. Draft versions of these reports were presented at the ICANN meeting in Seoul. Comments received during the presentations and the subsequent public comment sessions were taken into account by the [...]