ICANN abandons face-to-face plan for Puerto Rico
ICANN has canceled its plans for a “hybrid” ICANN 73, saying this morning that the meeting will go ahead as an online-only virtual meeting. Its board of directors yesterday voted…
Read moreICANN has canceled its plans for a “hybrid” ICANN 73, saying this morning that the meeting will go ahead as an online-only virtual meeting. Its board of directors yesterday voted…
Read moreICANN has started to put some flesh on the bones of the forthcoming (?) SSAD system for accessing private Whois records, including teasing some baseline pricing. During a session at…
Read moreICANN says that its preparatory work for possible Whois reforms will take another six months. The Operational Design Phase for the System for Standardized Access and Disclosure will now conclude…
Read moreICANN made a few million dollars more than expected in the third calendar quarter, according to its latest financials. Overall revenue for the three months ended September 30, ICANN’s first…
Read moreGoDaddy is pleased with how its new registry division is doing, with CEO Aman Bhutani claiming last night that it’s managed to turn around the fortunes of Neustar, which became…
Read moreGuessing that Facebook was about to rebrand its corporate parent “Meta” and registering some domain names before the name was officially announced does not mean you’re not a cybersquatter. Donuts…
Read moreUK-registered .eu domains dropped by about 43,000 in the third quarter, as the full impact of Brexit kicked in. There were 3,714 domains registered from the UK at the end…
Read moreICANN’s Generic Names Supporting Organization Council has approved a handful of changes to Whois policy, despite the fact that pretty much nobody was fully on-board with the proposals and how…
Read moreLast week’s public ICANN meeting saw the fewest attendees since the Org started compiling and publishing statistics over five years ago. According to a new blog post from meetings veep…
Read moreA company formerly known as CSC has terminated its dot-brand gTLD contract four years after discontinuing the company name. Computer Sciences Corporation, now known as DXC Technology, has told ICANN…
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