John Demco
Canadian Internet Forum And CIRA Annual General Meeting To Be Held In Montreal – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), registry operator for Canada’s .CA domain, is combining the Canadian Internet Forum (CIF) and CIRA’s 2013 Annual General Meeting (AGM) this year. The combined event will be held in Montreal on Monday, September 16. A number of industry leaders and experts are scheduled to participate, including:
- Avinash Kaushik, Digital Marketing Evangelist, Google
- Paul Brigner, Internet Society
- Byron Holland, CIRA
- Stéphanie Kennan, entrepreneur, professional speaker, and author
- Virginia Heffernan, former New York Times columnist, and author
- Ron Deibert, CitizenLab
- Tim Denton, industry expert
- Heather Dryden, Industry Canada
- Frédérick Gaudreau, Sûreté du Québec
- Michael Geist, University of Ottawa
- Mark Raymond, CIGI
- Michel Vanier, RISQ
Registration is now open. The event will also be available by interactive webcast.
ICANN Prohibits the Use of Dotless Domains – ICANN has prohibited the use of dotless domains in the New gTLD Program. A dotless domain consists of a single label, e.g. “http://example” or “user@example”. The decision follows the publication of an ICANN-commissioned study (the “Carve Report“), a 2012 report by ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), and a recent statement by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). One of the proposed new gTLDs affected by this decision is Google’s .search application.
Picks To Click
- An interview with Paul Mockapetris, creator of the DNS.
- The .net domain has surpassed 15 million registrations.
Timeline
- Wed, Aug 21 – Wed, Sep 4: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Sun, Sep 1: .biz, .info registry fees increase
- Mon, Sep 9 – Mon, Sep 16: online forum for CIRA Board of Directors election
- Mon, Sep 16: CIRA Annual General Meeting in Montreal
- Mon, Sep 16 – Mon, Sep 23: CIRA Board of Directors election
- Sun, Nov 17 – Thu, Nov 21: ICANN meetings in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Sat, Feb 1: .net registry fee increases