Registration is now open for the ICANN65 Policy Forum to be held in Marrakech, Morocco. The Policy Forum from 24-27 June will give the global Internet community a chance to focus on policy development. This will be the twelfth ICANN Public Meeting held in Africa, and the third in Marrakech, Morocco. To register for ICANN65,…
Category: Domain News
.CL Registrants Get Free Legal Assistance in Disputes
Registrants of .cl domain names that become caught up in disputes regarding their domains may now be eligible for free legal assistance in a programme NIC Chile has facilitated. The programme is offered through an alliance of legal clinics at Chilean university law faculties. It’s aimed at helping registrants, mostly for individuals and small businesses,…
Have Your Say On Making .NZ Even Better
New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission is seeking feedback on their first independent review with a view to making the organisation even better and fit for purpose for the years ahead. The review found the organisation has been effective in its oversight of the .nz domain name industry. “The Commission is pleased the review found no…
DotMusic Claims Right To .MUSIC Beating 7 Others Including Google and Amazon
Cypriot entrepreneur Constantine Roussos has beaten 7 other applicants, including Google, Donuts, Radix and Amazon, for the right to operate the .music new gTLD. “If someone told me back then that it would’ve taken 11 years… I would’ve said to myself, ‘Do what you’re doing, dude,’” Roussos told Billboard. “It’ll take you 11 years, but…
Updated Request for Proposal: ICANN’s Technical Compliance Monitoring System
ICANN is seeking to identify a provider to develop and maintain a Technical Compliance Monitoring system. The Technical Compliance Monitoring system is intended to enable the ICANN organization to help generic top-level domain (gTLD) registries and registrars ensure compliance with ICANN‘s consensus policies, as well as the provisions described in the 2017 gTLD Base Registry…