John Demco
ICANN Board Approves Changes To Registrar Contract – The ICANN Board has approved a set of 17 amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), the contract ICANN has with each accredited Registrar. According to ICANN: “The changes update the RAA, which was last amended in 2001, to adapt to the modern domain name market. The amendments significantly increase the protections in place for domain registrants. The changes include: enhanced enforcement tools to assure full compliance with the ICANN contract and policies, expanded requirements for reseller agreements, additional audit and data escrow requirements, more explicit requirements for providing contact information, and new notice requirements and termination provisions.”
Picks To Click
- OCAS Application Services Inc. loses a dispute over ontariocollege.ca.
- The ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee is recommending that the names in three internationally recognized lists must be reserved at the second level in all new gTLDs.
- ICANN is undertaking a study of the potential impact on the root server system of “adding IPv6 address records, IDN top level names, other new TLDs, and new records to support DNS security to the root zone.”
Timeline
- Fri, Jun 5: last day for comments on proposal for short .pro names
- Mon, Jun 8: last day for comments to NTIA concerning ICANN agreement
- Fri, Jun 12: last day for applications to CIRA’s Nomination Committee
- Sun, Jun 21 – Fri, Jun 26: ICANN meetings in Sydney, Australia
- Mon, Jun 29: last day for comments on ICANN IRT report on trademark protection
- Fri, Jul 31: last day for comments on root server scaling study
- Tue, Aug 4 – Mon, Aug 17: call for Member Nominees for CIRA Board election
- Mon, Aug 24 – Mon, Sep 7: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Tue, Sep 15 – Tue, Sep 22: online forum for CIRA Board of Directors election
- Tue, Sep 22: CIRA Annual General Meeting in Toronto
- Wed, Sep 23 – Wed, Sep 30: CIRA Board of Directors election
- Sun, Oct 25 – Fri, Oct 30: ICANN meetings in Seoul, South Korea
- Sun, Mar 7 – Fri, Mar 12: ICANN meetings in Nairobi, Kenya