GDPR And The Future of WHOIS with Tyler Marandola LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK TYLER MARONDOLA Website / @TylerMarandola Tyler Marandola is a member of the Intellectual Property Litigation Group. He prosecutes and defends cases involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, licensing, unfair competition, and other commercial disputes. Tyler has experience in…
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has mandated that domain registrars maintain a WHOIS database providing information on the domain issued. According to ICANN, the purposes of the database include Enabling a reliable mechanism for identifying and contacting the registrant; Providing reasonably accurate and up to date information about the technical and administrative…
Last Updated 1/22/17 What does the incoming Trump administration mean for tech and tech policy? Part 1 addresses the Tech industry’s strained relations with the President-Elect and an analysis on changes in policy to expect at the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department. Part 2 below addresses how Trump’s policies toward China…
Last Updated: January 30, 2017. The meeting between President-Elect Donald Trump and the tech community was as notable for who was there and for who was not. The meeting was attended by: Team Trump – Family POTUS-E Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner (son-in-law), Eric Trump, Donald Trump, Jr. Team Trump – Other VPOTUS-E Mike Pence,…
Commerce Dept Approves ICANN Transition Ted Cruz Leads Congressional Opposition In March 2014, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its plan to transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multi-stakeholder community. NTIA said the transition proposal must have broad community backing and: Support and enhance the multi-stakeholder model; Maintain…
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act Passed as Part of Budget Deal When President Obama signed the $1.1 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 into law, it contained a number of substantive amendments including the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (“CISA”). Cybersecurity Threat Indicators The Act establishes a portal with the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center to facilitate…
CLBR Segment 2: Report from ICANN 51 with Steve DelBianco As ICANN meets in Los Angeles for its tri-annual meeting, issues of the proposed ICANN transfer and ICANN’s accountability itself loom large. Steve DelBianco, an occasional ICANN critic and CLBR veteran is at ICANN 51 and will give us an update on what is going…
Why is ICANN awarding .africa to African Union when it promotes censorship? According to a report in All Africa, the African Union barred African internet entrepreneur Sophia Bekele, founder of the DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA), from speaking at the ITU’s “Girls in ICT” day event held at the AU headquarters. The reason? Bekele’s DCA has also applied for the…
ITU Battle, NSA Debacle Spur Review of Internet Governance The bruising 2012 ITU battle in which Russia and other authoritarian states sought to use the ITU to exert more control over the internet and continued fallout from the NSA disclosures have led to the creation of a commission to consider internet governance. The Global Commission…
Domain Name Association Launches, Pushes for Greater Awareness of New gTLDs The Domain Name Association launched last week with founding members consisting of ARI Registry Services, Demand Media, Donuts, FairWinds Partners, Go Daddy, Google, Momentous, United TLD, WhatBox?, DomainsBot Inc., Minds + Machines, and RightOfTheDot, LLC. In its press release, the DNA explained: The domain…
ICANN at 15 and California’s New Political Blogger Rules Podcast: Play in new window | Download (53.0MB) [Don’t forget to download the WebmasterRadio Mobile App so you can listen wherever you go]. ICANN at 15 with John Jeffrey CLBR preview blog post It was a special treat to go inside ICANN and meet with John Jeffrey, ICANN’s longtime General…
Last week ICANN announced that the initial evaluation (“IE”) phase of its new gTLD program was concluded. Of the 1,930 applications submitted: 1,745 passed IE and are eligible to proceed to the next phase of the Program 32 eligible for Extended Evaluation 3 were not approved either due to the New gTLD Program Committee’s acceptance…
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