ICANN Considering Scrapping “Who Is” System An ICANN report has concluded that the current WHOIS system of giving every user the same anonymous public access to (too often inaccurate) gTLD registration data—should be abandoned. Instead, the EWG recommends a paradigm shift whereby gTLD registration data is collected, validated and disclosed for permissible purposes only, with some…
June 23, 2012 – ICANN Reveal Day Announced That 1,930 GTLD Applications Had Been Filed Early Warning Conplaints 242 Complaints Issued December 20, 2012 – Lottery for Priority Considerations Drawing for priority consideration. No english language gTLD in top 100. Ironically, the same month that the Pope joined the Twitterverse, the Catholic church’s application for…
UDRP Calendar Day 1: COMPLAINT FILED Day 20: RESPONSE DUE Day 25: COMPLAINANT’S ADDITIONAL SUBMISSION (optional) DAY 30: RESPONDENT’S REPLY (optional) DAY 35: PANEL APPOINTED DAY 49: PANEL DECISION DAY 52: COMMUNICATION TO PARTIES DAY 62: DOMAIN NAME TRANSFERRED IF COMPLAINANT SUCCESSFUL Principal Arbitration Providers National Arbitration Forum (NAF) World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)…
Western Nations Refuse to Accept Divided ITU Proposal Has Cyber Cold War Begun? Ignoring repeated objections from the United States, Canada and EU nations, the International Telecommunications Union continued to press forward at the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WICT-12) with a proposal that would open the door to UN regulation of the internet. Despite “resolute” opposition,…
The Fastest City in the West . . . Google Fiber Launches in Kansas City Hoping to Catch Chattanooga For Fastest Internet Service Chattanooga, Tennessee has emerged as the fastest city for internet in the US due to its investment in a ultra high-speed internet service at a speed of 1 Gigabit per second (five…
ICANN’S REVEAL DAY What Are the New gTLDs and What Does it All Mean Wednesday is what ICANN labeled as “Reveal Day,” for the moment when it announced the applicants who paid the $185,000 application fee for 1,409 new generic top level domains (gTLDs) in what some where calling the “greatest internet landgrab in history.” One…
GTLD-a-Go-Go on Reveal Day At 5AM Pacific, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will announce applied for generic top level domains. Nearly 2,000 applications paid $185,000 for gTLDs. One company Donuts has applied for 307 gTLDS. Here’s some of the headlines on the announcement: Here comes the greatest Internet landgrab in history.…
Bridging the D.C.-Silicon Valley Divide in Napa Valley June 11, 2012 As in past years, the Sixth Tech Policy Summit held in serene Napa Valley highlights the very Silicon Valley-Washington divide which it seeks to bridge. While the SOPA fight, the passage of the CROWDFUND Act and greater tech engagement on Capitol Hill are…
Commerce Department Rejects ICANN Bid for Long-Term Contract The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which has managed internet domains since 1998 under contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce has failed in its bid to win a long-term extension but instead won only a six-month reprieve as DOC announced it had “received…
SPECIAL DOMAIN FEST EDITION OF CLBR LISTEN TO PODCAST Eli Goodman – Search Evangelist (Day 1 Keynote Speaker) EMr. Goodman leads the business development and research team for comScore’s Product Specialty division, where he plays an integral role in educating the industry on how to best merge marketing functions across platforms, including traditional…
Cyber Security: Utility False Alarm is a Warning Reports that a Springfield, Illinois water station pump failure was due to Russian hackers are now being disputed by the Department of Homeland Security, which is also investigating another hacking incident involving a Texas utility. The incident, however, raises concerns about alleged weak security at critical…
TOP STORIES: THE BATTLE OVER THE INTERNET NET NEUTRALITY KILL SWITCHES AND ICANN In December, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski moved forward on formalizing the FCC’s 2004 net neutrality principles. The response was immediate. Verizon and Metro PCS rushed to file legal challenges to the rules but the FCC has moved…
From 9/21 Cyber Report Internet Turns 40! On September 2, 1969 the first two ARPAnet computers were linked and began exchanging meaningless data. This evolved to the Internet and the ultimate exchange of meaningless data — Twitter. Today there are nearly 1.7 billion Internet users representing 1 in 4 people on the planet — that’s…
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