Be Productive While Working on the Road

Tim AtkinsNews

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Second Draft CWG-IANA Stewardship Proposal Out for Public Comment — April 24th Explanatory Webinar Scheduled

Philip CorwinAccountability, IANA, ICANN, NTIA

Late on the evening on April 22nd the CWG-Stewardship on the IANA Naming Functions issued its second Draft Proposal for a 28-day public comment period that closes on May 20th. Information about the Proposal can be found in a news announcement and at the public comment page. ICANN has scheduled a 90-minute explanatory webinar on the proposal on Friday, April …

$59 Million and Counting: ICANN Board Downgrades Community Say on Use of Last Resort Auction Proceeds

Philip CorwinUncategorized

ICANN’s new gTLD program provides for last resort auctions to settle contention sets where the competing applicants are unable to reach agreement by negotiation or private auction, with the proceeds going to a segregated ICANN account. With the recent $25 million bid of Google to secure control of the .App registry the total proceeds of those ICANN auctions has swelled …

.US to Hold Inaugural Town Hall on April 22

Philip CorwinUncategorized

Last fall I was appointed to the first Stakeholder Council ever established for .US, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) of the United States. Now I am happy to announce that .US will hold its inaugural Town Hall meeting on April 22nd at 1 pm Eastern time (17:00 UTC).  As described by the Stakeholder Council’s Secretariat, the Town Hall …

The Modern Workspace

Tim AtkinsNews

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Victory! Domains Stripped Out of EU “Trademark Package”

Philip CorwinUncategorized

Back in January ICA joined with four other trade association in cosigning a letter communicating our joint concerns regarding a “trademark package” being considered by the Council of the European Union. Adoption of the language under consideration could have led to adverse judicial actions being brought against domain registrants of all types by aggressive trademark owners. In particular, the signatories …

ICANN CEO Responds to ICA Concerns Regarding Davos “Cybersquatting” Remarks

Philip CorwinUncategorized

Early last month ICA President Jeremiah Johnston wrote to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade to express concerns regarding remarks that he had made during an interview at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland. In the course of those remarks the CEO was perceived to characterize domain portfolio owners of “hogging names”, as well as equate domain investors with “cybersquatters”. …

We “Do It Right” – ICA on the Record at ICANN 52 Singapore

Philip CorwinUncategorized

On February 4th I departed my home in Alexandria, Virginia for the ICANN 52 meeting in Singapore. I arrived at my hotel’s reception desk 28 hours and +13 time zones later. While my 777 was traversing the Arctic Circle, ICA dispatched a letter to ICANN CEO responding to remarks he made during the annual gathering of the top tenth of …

U.S. Senate Declares “Internet Governance Awareness Week” Coinciding with ICANN 52 Singapore

Philip CorwinUncategorized

On February 5th, while many (including the author) were on route to ICANN 52 in Singapore, the U.S. Senate passed S.Res. 71, a non-binding, “Sense of the Senate” Resolution declaring February 8th-14th as “Internet Governance Awareness Week”. Those dates overlap the now ongoing ICANN meeting in Singapore, and the congruence is intentional. The text of the Resolution (below) is fairly …