John Demco
Member Nominations For 2010 CIRA Board Election Close Soon – CIRA has issued a call to its membership to submit nominations for the Members’ Slate of the 2010 CIRA Board of Directors election. Nominations are being accepted until Monday, August 16. Each nominee must receive at least 20 shows of support from CIRA Members in order to be added to the final list of candidates.
Picks To Click
- auDA, the Australian domain name administrator, has announced a phased plan for the deployment of DNSSEC in the .au domain.
- Nominet has published a summary and analysis of a recent consultation “on the release of two letter, one character and other reserved .uk domains”. There is substantial support for the release of one- and two-character names.
- “Domain Name 101 – What Do the Various Domain Extensions Mean?”, by Webnames.ca’s Cybele Negris in the Small Business BC blog.
- Jay Daley of InternetNZ explains why ENUM is important.
- UAP Inc. loses a dispute over napa.ca.
Timeline
- Tue, Aug 3 – Mon, Aug 16: call for Member Nominees for CIRA Board election
- Thu, Aug 26 – Thu, Sep 9: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Tue, Sep 14 – Tue, Sep 21: online forum for CIRA Board of Directors election
- Tue, Sep 21: CIRA Annual General Meeting
- Wed, Sep 22 – Wed, Sep 29: CIRA Board of Directors election
- Sun, Dec 5 – Fri, Dec 10: ICANN meetings in Cartagena, Columbia