John Demco
ICANN Meeting in Mexico City Concludes – ICANN meetings were held in Mexico City on March 1-6. Sessions on new gTLDs, IDN ccTLDs, the structure of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), DNSSEC, IPv4 and IPv6, e-crime and abuse of the DNS, and a number of other topics took place. Among the announcements and resolutions were the following:
- ICANN President and CEO Paul Twomey announced that he will move on from ICANN at the end of 2009.
- Preliminary reports on competition and pricing, as related to the introduction of new gTLDs, were published.
- The ICANN Board resolved to create an Implementation Recommendation Team to “develop and propose solutions to the overarching issue of trademark protection in connection with the introduction of new gTLDs”.
- The country code registries of Germany (.de), Italy (.it), Belgium (.be), Slovenia (.si), Lithuania (.lt) and Croatia (.hr) have joined ICANN’s country code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO).
Picks To Click
- From ABC News, “The Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names”.
- Al Gore is backing the creation of a .eco TLD.
- The website for the June 21-26 ICANN meeting in Sydney, Australia is live.
Timeline
- Tue, Feb 3 – Mon, Mar 23: .tel domain registrations available at a premium price
- Sun, Mar 15: last day for comments on one- and two-charcter .biz names
- Tue, Mar 24: .tel domain registrations open to all
- Sun, Apr 5: last day for comments on petition to form GNSO Stakeholder Groups
- Sun, Apr 5: last day for comments on petition to form GNSO CyberSafety Constituency
- Mon, Apr 6: last day for comments on Registrar Accreditation Agreement amendments
- Mon, Apr 13: last day for comments on revised gTLD Applicant Handbook
- Wed, Apr 15: last day for applications to the ICANN Nominating Committee
- Thu, Apr 30: last day for comments on ICANN FY2010 proposed budget framework
- Sun, Jun 21 – Fri, Jun 26: ICANN meetings in Sydney, Australia
- Sun, Oct 25 – Fri, Oct 30: ICANN meetings in Seoul, South Korea