By Alexandra Zins Throughout the related sessions at the ICANN 64 Public Meeting in Kobe, Japan, it was clear that addressing domain abuse will be a priority for ICANN moving forward. Recent news of widespread Domain Name System (DNS) attacks underscored the urgent need for registries, registrars, cybersecurity professionals, and other ICANN stakeholders to work […]
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By Emily Johns In October, ICANN and its community convened for their third and final public meeting of the year in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting, typically the largest of the year, had nearly 2,400 attendees and included the bi-annual High-Level Government Meeting, which itself included government representatives from 124 different countries. The meeting focused largely
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By Emily Johns During the last week of June, the ICANN community convened in Panamá City, Panamá for the ICANN 62 Policy Forum. While a traditionally shorter and smaller meeting, this meeting focused on the work on surrounding the interpretation and implementation of ICANN’s Temporary Specification for gTLD Registration Data and the process for developing
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By Emily Johns On May 25th, the much-anticipated European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became fully enforceable. In the week before it did, and after months of community engagement across multiple stakeholder groups, the ICANN Board voted to approve its first-ever Temporary Specification in order to amend its established WHOIS policies to be compliant
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By Emily Johns On December 6th, Chairwoman of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin submitted a letter to Cherine Chalaby and Goran Marby of ICANN, expressing — in no uncertain terms — the challenges to and expectations of the organization in light of the impending General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law that
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By Josh Bourne 2017 proved to be an eventful year with the United States pulling back from ICANN, the advance of opportunistic practices by bad actors, and innovative uses of new gTLDS from some of the biggest global brands. These three trends should be top of mind as 2018 domain name strategies are considered. Policy
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By Abdul Khan According to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, the Obama era Net Neutrality rules that govern access to the Internet will be repealed on December 14th, 2017. While the impact of this action may take some time to directly impact companies and individuals, the FCC vote could signal an important
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