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ICANN deals with him by ignoring him. Same old, same old.
I predict Ed's complaints about the renewal of .aero will receive the same treatment.(Read More... |   )  AGP Limit Policy favors large Registrars posted by tbyfield on Friday December 05 2008, @10:07AM Anonymous writes "Many of you are already aware of ICANN's impending AGP Limits Policy. The links are here:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement -20oct08-en.htmhttp://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agp-draft-20oct08-en. html
See below for synopsis of the policy, which is intended to stop "domain tasting" (using the 5-day grace period to see if domain receives enough traffic to be profitable).(Read More... | 1773 bytes more | )  New NomCom Announced posted by michael on Tuesday November 18 2008, @05:53PM ICANN has announced the new NomCom
Tricia Drakes - Chair
Alan Levin - Associate ChairHagen Hultzsch - Advisor to Chair (as previous Chair of the Nom Com)
Klaus Birkenbihl - TLG Group, W3C
Margarita Valdes Cortes - ccNSO Representative
Ute Decker - GNSO, Intellectual Property Constituency
Matias Altamira Gigena - ALAC, Latin American and Caribbean
Hartmut Glaser - Address Supporting Organization
Caroline Greer - GNSO, Registry Constituency
Jan Gruntorad - Higher Education Representative
Rob Hall - GNSO, Registrars Constituency
Ole Jacobsen - Internet Engineering Task Force
Rodney Joffe - Security and Stability Advisory Committee (non-voting liaison)
Norbert Klein - GNSO, Non-Commercial Users Constituency
Khaled Koubaa - ALAC, Africa
Phil Lodico - GNSO, Business Constituency (Large)
Bill Manning - Root Server System Advisory Committee (non-voting liaison)
Desiree Miloshevic - ALAC, Europe
Ross Rader - ALAC, North America
Greg Ruth - GNSO, Internet Service Providers Constituency
Liz Williams - GNSO, Business Constituency (Small)
Hong Zue - ALAC, Asia/Australia/Pacific Representative(Read More... | )  Trojan Horse in ICANN's proposals for new gTLDs posted by tbyfield on Wednesday November 12 2008, @08:40PM GeorgeK writes "ICANN has posted draft contracts for new gTLDs. These contracts contain a Trojan horse that could radically alter pricing of domains in existing gTLDs like .com.
In particular, the draft contracts remove price controls from domain names. Existing gTLD contracts have an "equal treatment" clause, though, that permits registry operators to copy terms that are accepted by ICANN in other gTLDs. Thus, existing gTLDs like .com which do have price controls would be able to have those price controls removed if the draft contracts for new gTLDs are adopted as-is.(Read More... | 809 bytes more | ) ICANN As Seen By an ISP posted by michael on Wednesday July 30 2008, @02:02AM Dreamhost is a major US-based ISP with a somewhat irreverant blogging style. The latest blog entry, Crazy Domain Insane, discusses ICANN, new TLDs, domain name auctions, and more. Interesting to see it from another perspective.(Read More... | )  ICANN Struggles With Transparency posted by michael on Thursday July 24 2008, @05:40AM Milton Mueller at IGP in Does ICANN Still Keep Some Things Hidden?:
ICANN has made major strides towards increasing its transparency, but the point about openness and transparency is that you do it all the time, not just when its convenient or when the results won't challenge you. In that regard we find it interesting that ICM Registry's precedent-setting call for an Independent Review Panel has not seen the light anywhere on ICANN's website. ICM Registry, you will recall, was the applicant for the .xxx TLD, and due to interference by governments and some spinelessness by ICANN management ICANN's approval was reversed. ICM has chosen to become the first entity in history to attempt to use ICANN's Independent Review Process, something that ICANN touts as being a safeguard of its accountability but which some independent experts see as somewhat biased against the challenger. Sure, we don't expect ICANN to make a big deal about the challenge but we do think that its correspondence section, which contains virtually everyting sent to ICANN now, should post the notice of the IRP from the ICM Registry and that its ongoing front page news section should mention it.(Read More... | 3 comments | )  LACTLD New General Manager posted by michael on Friday July 11 2008, @05:38AM Anonymous writes "LACTLD (Latin American and Caribbean Association of ccTLDs) has elected their First General Manager: Erick Iriarte Ahon."(Read More... | ) ICANN Lets A Tiny Ray of Sunlight Into Selection of NomCom Chair posted by michael on Wednesday June 18 2008, @04:42PM As far as I can remember, this is a first, and a very welcome one: Call for Expressions of Interest for 2009 Nominating Committee Chair.
In the past, the selection of the Chair has not only been opaque, but in at least one case -- the most recent one -- subject to serious chicanary from the staff which failed to inform the Board of a critical fact relating to the Chair's suitability for the post.
In the past, the Chair has always been an ICANN and/or IETF insider (and often a former Board member). That's not all that likely to change soon, but this is a good first step in that direction.(Read More... | 418 bytes more | ) Russian Fed wants multilingual ccTLD posted by tbyfield on Thursday June 12 2008, @05:24AM Guy Faulconbridge of The Washington Post reports:
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for Russia to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script on Wednesday as part of a Kremlin drive to promote Russian as a global language. [...]
"We must do everything we can to make sure that we achieve in the future a Cyrillic Internet domain name—it is a pretty serious thing," Medvedev told the International Congress of Russian Press in Moscow.
"It is a symbol of the importance of the Russian language and Cyrillic and it is not a bad sphere of cooperation. And I think we have a rather high chance of achieving such a decision in the Internet world." [...]
Industry experts say Russia wants its domain name to be .rf—for Russian Federation—but written in the Cyrillic script.
Nothing .nu under the sun. Well, that’s not true: when Toys '[backwards R]' Us goes to the mat with ‘multilingual’ phishermen from the ex-East, it could be a bit more exciting than etoy v. Etoys—which was pretty good.(Read More... | ) The Registry double standard posted by tbyfield on Sunday May 25 2008, @08:16PM Anonymous writes: "ICANN is maintaining two standards, one for its customers and one for itself. First off, we will clarify the two types of TLDS that exist, those with specific use constraints and those that are generic. In the first category, we find TLDs like; .GOV, .EDU, .SB, .BR, .ARPA, .INT and others. These TLDS have specific rules; e.g. only treaty organizations, only infrastructure, only institutions approved by GAO, EDUCAUSE, etc. The second category of TLDS are the generics, such as .COM, .ORG, and others, where the rule is essentially, you pay your money and you get your domain.In this second category, there was serious concern about market capture and dominant position where the registry had direct business relationships with the registrants. The USG forced ICANN to develop a method to decouple the monopoly position of the registry by creating the construct of a registrar to act as the intermediary between the registrant and the registry. This was hailed as a solution to fostering growth and competition in the domain marketplace. Indeed ICANN insists that this “thick” registry model be adopted for generic TLDS and includes such stipulations in the contracts the registry operator must sign before being approved to run the delegation.So in what category does one place the root zone?(Read More... | 2381 bytes more | )  The Rise of a malicious resolution authority posted by tbyfield on Tuesday May 13 2008, @07:34PM Jart writes "With an interest in Internet Security the recent research paper recently by David Dagon, Niels Provos, et al., suggests we take an acute interest in ICANN[:]
“291,528 hosts on the Internet performing either incorrect or malicious DNS service. With DNS resolution behavior so trivially changed, numerous malware instances in the wild, we urge the security community to consider the corruption of the resolution path as an important problem.” [See (]http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/ndss08_d ns.pdf[)]
If you connect this to what now is the "auto" generation and registration of new malware and rogues domains via certain registrars. [See (]http://hostexploit.com[)]
As an emerging problem must [this] be a top priority for ICANN? However, I have not seen any particular reference, perhaps I am missing this? Or rather all of us should be paying much more attention to the who, what, and actions of ICANN?"(Read More... | 2768 bytes more | 3 comments | ) .br Relaxes Registration Rules posted by michael on Tuesday May 06 2008, @03:38AM sk8master writes "On May 1, 2008, the Brazilian government organization that controls the country's domain name system, Registro.br, finally relaxed the restriction to non-corporative customers.Previously, you needed to have a registered company in Brazil in order to complete new domain name purchases for the .COM.BR domain.Now anyone is free to register Brazilian(.BR) domain names!"(Read More... | )  Domain Sub-Letting Raises Hackles posted by michael on Wednesday April 30 2008, @08:01AM A Missouri college's decision to sub-let space on its .edu domain is drawing fire:
an online college in Missouri has started renting out blog space on its .edu domain to just about anyone willing to pay $50 a month. And the practice has quickly raised objections from college officials worried that such rentals undermine the .edu designation.
The college, the Pickering Institute, calls its service the "first public EDU blog community," and it touts the marketing value of having an Internet address that appears to be part of a college. "Our blogs allow you to reach an education-minded audience that is difficult to reach with mass-market blogs such as Blogger or Blogspot," says an announcement on the institute's Web site. So far, the blogs with the new .edu addresses include such noneducational offerings as "Handbags in Our Life," "Jewelry in Our Life," and "Get the Scoop." The institute is working with an Internet company called LinkAdage to offer the service.
Educase, the folks who run the .edu domain, say that this doesn't actually violate any rules, but they clearly don't like it and say they are investigating after receiving a complaint.(Read More... | ) ICANN Preliminary Vote Against Domain Tasting posted by michael on Wednesday April 30 2008, @07:59AM Anonymous writes "On April 17 ICANN voted to make their 20 cent per domain name fee non-refundable. This means that at the end of the five day period, the registrar loses the 20 cents even if the registry refunds them. The ICANN board still has to ratify the resolution."(Read More... | )  Avast, Earthlink posted by tbyfield on Thursday April 24 2008, @07:34PM Ryan Singel, writing for WiReD's Threat Level weblog (can we please go back to that term?), reports on yet another dubious innovation that's part typosquatting, part phishing:
[S]tarting in August 2006, Earthlink instead intercepts that Non-Existent Domain (NXDOMAIN) response and sends the IP address of ad-partner Barefruit's server as the answer. When the browser visits that page, the user sees a list of suggestions for what site the user might have actually wanted, along with a search box and Yahoo ads.
The rub comes when a user is asking for a nonexistent subdomain of a real website, such as http://webmale.google.com, where the subdomain webmale doesn't exist.... In this case, the Earthlink/Barefruit ads appear in the browser....
It gets worse:
[S]ubdomains are only as secure as Barefruit's servers, which turned out to be not very secure at all. Barefruit neglected basic web programming techniques, making its servers vulnerable to a malicious JavaScript attack. That meant hackers could have crafted special links to unused subdomains of legitimate websites that, when visited, would serve any content the attacker wanted.
The hacker could, for example, send spam e-mails to Earthlink subscribers with a link to a webpage on money.paypal.com. Visiting that link would take the victim to the hacker's site, and it would look as though they were on a real PayPal page.
Paul Vixie politely describes this as a "problem exacerbated by inappropriate monetization of certain DNS features." And if the Pentagon distorted GPS signals to bidders on a first-come, first-served basis—say, off the Somalian coast or in the Strait of Malacca—that would be "an inappropriate monetization of certain GPS features."(Read More... | 4 comments | )  How many TLDs safely fit in the DNS? posted by michael on Wednesday April 09 2008, @10:37AM Simon Higgs writes "I recently came across the question "How many TLDs safely fit in the DNS?". It, was, not surprisingly, in the context of ICANN doing some due diligence with their $30 million budget and actually answering the same questions that the IAB have been cowering behind for over a decade. Well, here's my answer for it's 2 cents of bandwidth:In all fairness to ICANN, the reason why I think it hasn't answered the question is because it simply DOES NOT have a calculator that can calculate a number that big. You would think that ICANN should be able to go down to the corner store in Marina Del Ray and buy one, just like all the other high speed networking physicists in the Admiralty building. But the number's so big even the mighty Google refused to calculate it until a just few days ago.So what are these huge numbers that ICANN is hiding from us? Using the current ASCII-based character strings used in DNS we get the following big numbers:(Read More... | 1248 bytes more | 6 comments | ) GoDaddy feels the heat posted by tbyfield on Thursday March 13 2008, @02:46AM GoDaddy pulled (but has since "pushed"?) the hosting plug on the website RateMyCop.com. According to the site's owner, Gino Sesto, GoDaddy did so without warning then later attributed it to "suspicious activity," and still later to the site's surpassing its contracted bandwidth limit. According to WiReD, GoDaddy initially claimed it couldn't comment because of its privacy policy but later saw fit to reluctantly poke its spoon around in a bowl of verbal porridge on the subject. ArsTechnica has more. Arbiters of taste pointed out that the site's owner might have less trouble if he'd called it, say, "AmICourteousProfessionalAndRespectfulOrNot.com". ICANN wasn't involved in any way; this kerfuffle just reminded me of the shining moment in ICANN's history when former ICANN President "Cap'n" Mike Roberts—no doubt grimly—typed:
When civilization takes a step backward, as it did last week, it usually means a period in which the people with the guns make the decisions. Anyone watching the American President on tv in recent days knows that's where we're at. It may be a while before the luxury of debating what constitutes consensus in a terrorist-less society returns.
It's been a while, Cap'n Mike.(Read More... | )  We're Back posted by michael on Monday March 10 2008, @04:32PM Sorry for the downtime. Our volunteer nameserver went down; we've switched to zoneedit.com for the time being at least.
Contrary to at least one suggestion emailed in, our down time had nothing whatsoever to do with the wikileaks affair!
Note that for future reference if ICANNWatch.org is not working, you may have luck with ICANNWatch.net. Or not, depending on the nature of the problem...(Read More... | 1 comment | )  NAF Accused of Failure to Refund posted by michael on Monday February 18 2008, @10:05AM A consumer complaint has been filed with the Minnesota Attorney General's office against the a major UDRP service provider for its failure to issue a $1,300 refund check as promised for canceled arbitrations.
The full text of the complaint against the National Arbitration Forum is here. Note this line:I have also contacted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California non-profit which confers nominal "accreditation" of the NAF to conduct these types of internet dispute resolution services. ICANN has taken no action, as the responsible ICANN official is a former employee of the NAF in charge of the identical dispute resolution service advertised by the NAF.
Has NAF ever issued a refund?(Read More... | 1 comment | ) ICANN Supports an End to Domain Tasting posted by jon on Thursday January 31 2008, @02:47AM The ICANN Board voted last week to indicate support in principle for a change in registration rules that would end "domain tasting" -- the practice in which folks register millions of domain names and monitor them, over the next few days, to find the ones that get enough hits that they will turn a profit from pay-per-click revenues even after deducting registration fees. The taster will keep those names (say, 5000 out of a million names registered) and delete the rest, incurring no cost for the deleted names so long as all of the action takes place within the five-day Add Grace Period. The ICANN Board has now expressed support for ending domain tasting by imposing fees on registrations of names that are deleted within the AGP.
Domain tasting is tremendously unpopular in domain-name circles, and eliminating it seems uncontroversial. Someone new to this sandbox, though, someone who isn't used to ICANN and the current brand of domain-name politics, might have some questions to ask:(Read More... | 2256 bytes more | ) Login Nickname:Password:[ Don't have an account yet? Please create one. It's not required, but as a registered user you can customize the site, post comments with your name, and accumulate reputation points ("karma") that will make your comments more visible. ] ICANN New & Noteworthy Participate In Improving the GNSO2008 Annual Report PublishedFellows Announced for Mexico City MeetingProposed .AERO Sponsorship Agreement Posted for Public CommentRevamped Whois Inaccuracy Reporting System Goes LiveAdvisory: Add Grace Period Limits PolicyRevisions in Proposed Changes to Registrar Accreditation AgreementSecond Consultation on Registry/Registrar Report this Friday Past Articles January 8 · Is NSI FrontRunning? (4) January 7 · Staff Draft of GNSO Report on Domain Tasting Posted (0) December 21 · ICANN To Allow WHOIS Privacy -- But Only When Legally Required (0) December 19 · Homeland Security Department was warned about DNSSEC key ownership and trust issues (0) December 11 · ICANNWatch Listed Among ABA Journal Blawg 100 (0) · NomCom to Employ Search Firm? (1) November 14 · New Policies Regarding ".pe" Domain Names (0) November 13 · Joi Ito's Parting Thoughts (0) Older ArticlesYesterday's Edition Quick Links
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