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Neustar Transition Sees Nicolai Bezsonoff Promoted To Replace Sean Kaine To Head Domains Division

Neustar’s Nicolai Bezsonoff has been promoted to replace the outgoing Sean Kaine as the head of their Registry Solutions business as VP and General Manager. It is believed Kaine had already announced he will be leaving Neustar in coming months in an orderly transition. Bezsonoff will transition from his current role of VP and GM

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Public Comment Period Extended: Operating Standards for ICANN’s Specific Reviews

The deadline to submit comments on the Operating Standards for ICANN‘s Specific Reviews [PDF, 692 KB] has been extended until Friday 2 February 23:59 UTC. Comment on the draft Operating Standards. The goal of the Bylaws-mandated Operating Standards (see Section 4.6) is to provide for a transparent and consistent review process by documenting rules and

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auDA’s ‘Broken Management’ Seeks to Undermine .AU’s Multistakeholder Model

In an excoriating open letter to auDA management, Scott Long, Chair of auDA’s Constitution Reform Committee, has resigned from a committee that, according to Domain Pulse sources, an auDA Board member inferred members were ‘selected to cause instability and infighting, and possibly to fail, to demonstrate through deflection to DoCA [Department of Communications and the

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