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ICANN German Regional Court to Revisit...
ICANN was informed Thursday that the Regional Court in Bonn, Germany, has decided to revisit its ruling in the injunction proceedings that ICANN initiated against EPAG, a Germany-based, ICANN-accredited registrar that is part of the Tucows Group.On 13 June 2018, ICANN appealed the Regional Court's initial decision to reject ICANNs application for an injunction, in which ICANN sought a court order requiring EPAG to reinstate collection of administrative and tec
ICANN Announces Calls-to-Action for Co...
ICANN has several calls-to-action for community participation in ICANN reviews below. Share your Public Comment on the Short-Term and Long-term Options to Adjust the Timing of Reviews. Please click here to learn about proposed short-term options and share your input. Close date: 6 July 2018 at 23:59 UTC. Please click here to learn about long-term options and share your input. Close date: 20 July 2018 at 23:59 UTC. SSR2 Restarts, Learn More! On 7 June 2018, it was ann
auDA Stacks Membership With Almost 100...
It's taken 2 people 5 Board meetings, a period that could be anything from 5 to 8 months, from submitting their application to join auDA to acceptance, sources have told Domain Pulse. But now we have 955 member applications approved in one Board meeting held today. News of the approvals had begun to circulate ahead of today's Board meeting as auDA gains a reputation of being a leaky boat. The drawn out process of vetting applicants combined with numerous reports of a
New gTLDs Plummet .NET Slides While .C...
The growth in domain names was once upon a time not so many years ago on a sharp upward trajectory. But over the last couple of years that growth has slowed dramatically, with registrations growing 1.0% in the year to the end of the first quarter in 2018, or 3.2 million, to approximately 333.8 million domain name registrations across all top level domains, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from Verisign for the first quarter of 2018. For the quarter,
Is auDA Facilitating Branchstacking Ah...
Allegations of branchstacking have surfaced ahead of the upcoming auDA Special General Meeting with supply class members rumoured to be encouraging staff to join along with what appears to be family members of the Chair Chris Leptos. The allegations also include a rumour that leading supply organisations may also be offering to subsidise membership fees, a move that is against the rules of auDA, but has possibly been agreed to through an undeclared imprimatur of auDA
ICANN Update to Short-term Options to ...
ICANN announces changes to the Public Comment on Short-term Options for the timeline of ICANN reviews. ICANN has removed the Registration Directory Service Review (RDS-WHOIS2) options and references and posted an updated Short-term Public Comment at the request of the Review Team. Any comments regarding the RDS-WHOIS2 request should be addressed to the RDS-WHOIS2 Review Team at input-to-rds-whois2-rt@icann.org (publicly archived).The Public Comment periods on