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…
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…
IAB – Click Fraud Reaches Nearly $12B This year, click fraud is on track to cost marketers $11.6 billion in advertising — up 22% from 2013 — according to survey findings released earlier this week by Solve Media. To combat click fraud, the IAB has released its final version of best practices which is available…
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Tags Google for Medical BT In only her second month on the job, Interim Privacy Commissioner Chantal Bernier took on one of the giants of the Internet – Google. Bernier cited Google for sending targeted ads for medical conditions based on consumer searches which violates Canada’s “Privacy and Online Behavioural Advertising Guidelines”…
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…
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)…
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…
Next on CLBR: Divide and Reveal Nigel Cameron discusses the Silicon Valley-DC Divide and David Mitnick discusses ICANN’s gTLD announcement. Today in History 1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to ban the importation of slaves. Led in part by Moses Brown, who converted to Quakerism after his wife’s death and became the state’s leading abolition.…
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