Tag Archives: icann

August, 2009

• 6 August

  ICANN Issues Statement Regarding YouTubeIslam.com

  In what has become a highly controversial domain dispute, ICANN has uncharacteristically released a statement about it explaining their non-participant role in domain name disputes. According to reports, the respondents registered the domain youtubeislam.com and created a website that allowed people to post videos about Islam and Muslims. The site …
• 5 August

  Congressmen call for permanent ICANN relationship

  With less than two months of ICANN‘s Joint Project Agreement with the United States Department of Commence remaining, two key House members are calling for permanent government involvement in the organization. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D.-Calif., and Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rick Boucher, D-Va., made a statement regarding …

July, 2009

• 31 July

  Sears loses dispute for my-gofer domains

  What do the domains my-gofer.biz,.info.,.net,.org,and .info have in common? Sears Brands, LLC does not have rights to any of them. They apparently thought they did, however, and took the case before an arbitrator. MyGofer is the chosen name and trademark of Sears’ shopping service. Their main website is mygofer.com Sears …
• 30 July

  TLDs slow to adopt IPv6

  It seems as though data center operators and ISPs aren’t the only ones lagging behind in IPv6 adoption. Recent data provided by ICANN shows that 41% of the existing 280 Top-Level Domains have no IPv6 support whatsoever. With IPv4 addresses still slated to run out some time in 2011, this …
• 23 July

  Naughty registrars keep ignoring ICANN rules

  ICANN has clear policies about domain name transfers. If, for example, a person’s domain has expired but it has not yet been deleted from his current registrar, he has the legitimate right to transfer that domain to another registrar at their discretion. But three major registrars, who shall remain nameless, …
• 22 July

  New ICANN CEO releases address

  New ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has been in his post for more than three weeks now, but just released his first public address yesterday. In the message, Paul Twomey’s replacement talks about how excited he is to be working at ICANN and details his plans for the future. While it’s …
• 21 July

  How ICANN's "three character policy" could constrain IDN development

  Soon, ICANN will allow Internationalized Domain Names to be registered. These names will allow speakers of languages like Japanese, Swahili, and Russian to register domains in their native vernacular using characters not found in Latin-derived alphabets. Unfortunately, it seems as though an outdated ICANN policy might seriously hinder the IDN …
• 15 July

  ICANN may finally do somehing about cybersquatting

  Cybersquatting has been a problem for many years, and one of the chief criticisms of ICANN has been its failure to stop the problem. With the new gTLD system coming next year, trademark holders are pushing ICANN to take action. Now a plan to stop cybersquatting is being planned. Known …
• 13 July

  Beckstrom: "ICANN is functioning properly [because] the Internet is functioning properly"

  Forget about problems like cybersquatting, unethical registrar practices, and the blatant commercialization of domains ICANN has allowed to go on for years. Oh no, everything is fine at the California organization. In a recent statement, new CEO Rod Beckstrom eased all doubts: There will always be different voices out there, …
• 7 July

  The longest single-word domain: llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com

  When registering a domain, it is often best to keep the name as short and simple as possible. For the residents of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, a village on an island in Wales, this wasn’t an option. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is Welsh for “The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees …