Author: John Demco

ICANN Completes Toronto Meeting – The 45th ICANN meeting was held last week in Toronto. The opening ceremony keynote was delivered by the Honourable Tony Clement, MP and President of the Treasury Board. Mr. Clement expressed strong support for the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. Incremental progress was made on a number of fronts including…

Domain Name Registrations Top 240 Million Worldwide – According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, the second quarter of 2012 ended with more than 240 million domain names registered worldwide, an annual growth of more than 25.5 million or 11.9%. The annual growth as reported three months ago was 23 million…

CIRA Announces 2012 Board of Directors Election Results – The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced that Michael Geist, William Gibson, Carole Mackaay, Kevin McArthur, and Bill Sandiford have been elected to its Board of Directors. A total of 3508 votes were cast, and a complete list of candidates and vote counts has been…

Here is a selection of domain-related items: With shows of support now complete for Members’ nominees for the CIRA Board of Directors election, the final slate of candidates is to be published today, and the online campaign forum is scheduled to commence on Tuesday, September 11. CIRA has issued its 2011/2012 Report to Members detailing…

Member Nominees Seek Shows Of Support For CIRA Election – CIRA has published the names and statements of Member Nominees in the forthcoming CIRA Board of Directors election. To be included on the ballot, a nominee must receive the support of at least 20 CIRA Members. This year, a CIRA Member may show support for…

CIRA 2012 Election: Nomination Committee Selections, Member Applications Open – The processes for CIRA’s 2012 Board of Directors election are well under way. This year, three Directors will be elected from the Nomination Committee slate, and two Directors will be elected from the Members’ slate. One Director is normally elected from the Members’ slate, but…

Domain Name Registrations Top 233 Million – According to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, the first quarter of 2012 ended with more than 233 million domain names worldwide, an annual growth of more than 23 million or 11%. The annual growth as reported three months ago was 20.4 million or 10%.…

.COM Registry Agreement Renewed – ICANN has approved the renewal of the .com registry agreement with Verisign. The contract term extends through November 30, 2018. New ICANN President and CEO Announced – At a press conference in Prague on June 22, Fadi Chehadé was announced as ICANN’s President and CEO, as of October 1. With…

New gTLD Applications Announced – ICANN has announced the names of the 1930 new top-level domain applications, together with other information including the public portions of the applications themselves. A 60-day comment period has begun, and a number of comments and informal objections have already been posted. Analyses and breakdowns of the applications are appearing;…

Top-Level Domain Application System Closes; More Than 1900 Submitted – On May 30, when ICANN closed the system for new gTLD applications, just over 1900 applications had been submitted. The announcement of applied-for domain names, known as “Reveal Day”, is scheduled for June 13, and a list of other events has been published. ICANN will…

ICANN To Reopen New TLD Application System – ICANN has announced that the Top-Level Domain Application System (TAS) will reopen on Tuesday, May 22 and close on Wednesday, May 30. The system was taken offline on April 12 due to a technical problem. More than 2000 top-level domain applications have been submitted to date. Picks…

ICANN Update: More Than 2000 TLD Applications, $350 Million in Fees – ICANN has announced that the TLD Application System held 2091 top-level domain applications, either submitted or in progress, when the system was taken offline on April 12. As of May 4, ICANN has received approximately USD $350 million in new gTLD application fees.…

New gTLD Application System Still Down – ICANN has announced that it is unable to provide a specific date for reopening the TLD Application System (TAS). They have indicated that an update will be provided no later than April 27, and that when the system is reopened it will be kept open for at least…

ICANN Interrupts gTLD Application Process – On April 12, shortly before the application period for new gTLDs was scheduled to end, ICANN unexpectedly took the application system offline. It was later announced that a technical issue “allowed a limited number of users to view some other users’ file names and user names in certain scenarios”.…

Proposed .COM Registry Renewal Agreement Published – ICANN has posted the proposed agreement to renew the .com Registry Agreement between ICANN and Verisign. The existing contract was entered into in 2006 and expires on November 30, 2012. In addition to a number of changes to modernize the agreement and to align it with other large…