ICANN Appoints First URS Provider. Phone convos recorded by FBI. 1 impression d’écran insuffisante pour établir la preuve d’une p. gTLDs and anticompetitive behaviour: is there a monopolistic trend on the web? African domain-name registrars have mixed reaction to ICANN push. IDG News Service — African domain-name registrars responded with mixed reactions to details of ICANN's initiative on the continent, saying that while they should now have increased access to the Internet governance organization, increasing the number of registrars isn't all that needs to be done.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will immediately go ahead with plans to have six new representatives on the African continent as part of its Africa strategy, it announced during a meeting in Addis Ababa last week. ICANN also plans to increase the current five domain-name registrars to 25 in the next 18 months, ICANN's CEO and President Fadi ChehadA(c)A said during the conference. A lack of registrars is one of Africa's major challenges regarding the Internet, with many businesses and people there depending on international companies and services for their domain names. That needs to change, ICANN said. Cost is another issue that hampers the domain-name business. Stop ICANN's Plans for Closed Generic Domains. Subscribe to this blog About Author.
Email Archives: [comments-base-agreement-05feb13] Domain Complaints – The Public’s Concern and ICANN’s Request Regarding Closed Generic Domains. ICANN’s debating what’s in a domain name - Michelle Quinn. Should a company be allowed to run a generic term such as tire, insurance or book as a domain and wall off its use from competitors?
That’s the question the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is wrestling with as it prepares to begin awarding firms new top-level domains — the words to the right of the dot. The nonprofit firm has been evaluating about 1,900 applications for new domains, many of them common dictionary terms. Continue Reading There had been agreement that companies like Apple could win generic words such as apple because of its brand. But companies such as Amazon, Google, Goodyear, L’Oreal and others also applied for a wide array of words and indicated that they would like to operate the registry as “closed” — meaning they may not allow other firms to buy what are known as second-level domains.
Clearly, companies want to own and control generic words as domains so that they can offer their services. Meltdown IV: How ICANN resists accountability. If you wanted to make ICANN’s Board and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) accountable, would you put the chairman of ICANN’s Board and the Chair of the GAC in charge of running a committee of ICANN decision makers to assess its accountability?
Let’s ask it in another way: if you wanted to make a big bank accountable for its mortgage lending practices, would you let the bank’s CEO and board chair select the committee and run the process? The US Commerce Department’s 2009 Affirmation of Commitments was supposed to be one of the solutions to ICANN’s accountability problems. It created an “Accountability and Transparency Review Team” (ATRT) to review ICANN’s activities and (supposedly) provide some form of critical assessment of its performance. S Trademark Clearinghouse to Provide Unprecedented Protections in the Domain Name Space. ICANN allows hundreds of new Internet domain suffixes. Goodbye ".com," and hello ".cadillac," ".vegas," and ".music.
" The world of Internet suffixes is about to go through a major growth spurt. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, announced today that hundreds of new Web address suffixes will roll out this year, according to the Associated Press. Registry Agreement updates, public comment periods and Closed Generic Discussions « Valideus. On 5 February 2013, ICANN held a webinar to update applicants on its New gTLD Program.
While ICANN’s CEO Fadi Chehade began by assuring applicants that things were “on track” (Chehade recently said that if it were up to him he would delay the launch of new gTLDs by a year since critical systems are simply not in place), throughout the webinar it emerged that ICANN is soliciting public comments on several sensitive issues: ICANN’s Registry Agreement, a contractual mechanism to hold applicants accountable for representations in their applications, and so-called “closed generics”.
Topics: 1. ICANN-proposed Registry Agreement changes 2. 3. 4. 1. ICANN Tells POLITICO On Closed Generic gTLD’s: “The Train is Leaving the Station” ICANN appears to have abandoned its own oft-stated high ethical principles and even its agreement with the United States Department of Commerce. —————————————- Here is an excerpt from ICANN’s Affirmation of Commitments with DOC: “3.
This document affirms key commitments by DOC and ICANN, including commitments to:… (c) promote competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice in the DNS marketplace” That’s pretty unmistakable – “PROMOTE COMPETITION” and “CONSUMER CHOICE”. —————————————- And an excerpt from ICANN’s official website: Questions on the Debate on 'Closed Generic' gTLD Applications. ICANN is currently seeking public comment on the subject of "closed generic” gTLD applications.
It asks "whether specific requirements should be adopted corresponding to this type of application”. It invites comments on what it defines as an "issue”. In particular, ICANN wonders how an applied-for domain can be deemed a "closed generic” TLD, and whether there should be rules governing the way this TLD will be operated. Generic top-level domain. A generic top-level domain (gTLD) is one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet.
It is visible to Internet users as the suffix at the end of a domain name. Overall, IANA currently distinguishes the following groups of top-level domains:[4] The core group of generic top-level domains consists of the com, info, net, and org domains. In addition, the domains biz, name, and pro are also considered generic; however, these are designated as restricted, because registrations within them require proof of eligibility within the guidelines set for each.
About. Objection and Dispute Resolution. News & Views Expert Determinations Available for Review ICANN is publishing Expert Determinations as they become publicly available.
View Determinations Now Dispute Announcement Published A list of objections that have passed the Dispute Resolution Service Providers' administrative review is now available. ICANN issues early warnings over controversial top level domains. A panel representing about 50 of the world's national governments has revealed a list of the proposed generic top-level domain (gTLD) names to which there have been objections.
Back in May, the ICANN registration process for new gTLDs finally drew to a close, and in June ICANN published a list of which domain names had been applied for and by whom. A total of 1,930 applications were received for suffixes such as .cloud, .music, .docs and .lol. ICANN said at the time that anyone who objected to an application and believed they had the grounds to do so could file a formal objection within seven months. In August it was revealed that Saudi Arabia had objected to a variety of new gTLDs including .gay, which it said promotes homosexuality and could be offensive to societies that consider it to be contrary to their culture.
Early Warnings mainly consist of requests for information, or requests for clarity on certain aspects of an application. The Battle For The Cloud: Amazon Proposes 'Closed' Top-Level .CLOUD Domain. Opinion / Op-Ed : Beauty lies in the ‘domain’ of the highest bidder. L’Oréal has applied for the top level domain (TLD) .beauty to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the global authority dealing with domain names on the Internet.
TLDs are what we see on the right side of the dot in domain names — for example, .com and .net. If L’Oréal gets .beauty, which seems very likely, it will be able to reserve this top level domain name just for its own use. Unlike .com, .org, .net etc, which are public TLDs, .beauty will be a private TLD. What this means is that, for instance, “Raji Curls,” a beauty salon, will not be able to ask for www.rajicurls.beauty, as one could have in the case of .com. L’Oréal will have the exclusive use of .beauty, as its private property. How L’Oréal will leverage this privileged association with a key symbolic term of our culture will be an interesting exercise to follow. ICANN New gTLD Committee Not Sure How To Handle Closed Generic Applications. Its seems pretty clear that the New gTLD committee of ICANN doesn’t know what they should do about what is fast becoming one of the biggest issues of the new gTLD program, applications for closed generic strings.
The issue generic strings like .App and .Music which were applied for by companies like Amazon, which would not allow any third party registrations, but rather keep the entire generic string for their own use. The minutes of The Meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors which was held on 10 January 2013 were just published yesterday. On the issue of Closed Generic Strings, the minutes reflect that the committee and ICANN is split on what exactly to do with what has become a big problem for the new gTLD program. Here are the minutes of the meeting on this issue: Karen Lentz made a presentation to the Committee on the issue emerging on closed generic strings.
Francisco da Silva, TLG Liaison, was in attendance as non-voting liaisons to the committee. Commercial internet monopoly proposed - Opinion and Analysis. Mr Alex Gakuru, the chairman, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – the body mandated with the technical management and co-ordination of the Internet – undervalues non-commercial interests in the policy development process, says a 2006 report by the London School of Economics. Non-commercial internet users have long fought for parity with commercial users in the policy development process. Where are the individuals, domain name holders, within ICANN ?
ICANN 37 Nairobi - Avri Doria Interview : ICANN new domain names. ICANN's expansion of domain names suffixes: the benefits and disadvantages to businesses. Since its creation in 1998, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has gradually increased the number of domain suffixes, or "generic top-level domains" ("gTLDs"), to its current level of 22, including the common .com and .net. Despite this increase, and the 250+ country specific domains, the internet naming system remains heavily prescribed, writes Alex Hall, solicitor at Mundays LLP . 2012 will see dramatic change. On 20 June, ICANN elected to allow the creation of potentially limitless variations of domain suffixes .
From January next year, businesses and organisations will be able to apply for gTLDs containing almost any word in any script or language, enabling the likes of ".google", ".tesco" or ".bank". Are custom gTLDs set to dramatically change the internet landscape? The advantage to businesses in obtaining a custom gTLD will be to establish a unique internet presence.
Such benefits come at a cost. Alex Hall is a solicitor at Mundays LLP Email Alerts.