John Demco
Nominet Foundation Created – Nominet, the registry for the .uk domain, has created the Nominet Foundation, “a charitable organisation that will fund education, research and development initiatives in the UK Internet industry.” The Foundation is expected to receive a first year donation of 5 million pounds, and projects will be invited to seek funding at a later date.
ICANN To Consider Improvements in Dispute Resolution – ICANN has posted for public notice a paper outlining possible improvements in its dispute resolution mechanisms. Two of the possible improvements include: “a mechanism for the community to ask the Board to reconsider a decision,” and, importantly, “a mechanism to dissolve and reconstitute the Board should it engage in unethical or other misbehavior.”
Picks To Click
- Clearly Lasik has lost a dispute over clearlylasik.ca and clearly-lasik.ca. It did not provide evidence to satisfy the Canadian Presence elegibility requirements of the CIRA Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy.
- Milton Meuller comments on the prospect of ICANN ending its Joint Project Agreement with ICANN.
- “Dot Travel – The rise and fall of a brilliant concept,” by Jens Thraenhart.
- GoDaddy, Afilias and ME-Net will operate the .me domain registry for Montenegro.
Timeline
- Fri, Jan 25: last day for applications for CIRA’s Nomination Committee.
- Fri, Jan 25: last day for comments on policy development process for IDN ccTLDs.
- Mon, Jan 28: last day for comments on initial report on domain tasting.
- Thu, Jan 31: last day of .asia registry sunrise for marks, extended marks, entity names
- Sun, Feb 10 – Fri, Feb 15: ICANN meetings in New Delhi, India
- Fri, Feb 15: last day for submissions to midpoint review of NTIA/ICANN agreement
- Tue, Feb 20 – Mon, Mar 12: .asia domain landrush
- Mon, Mar 26: .asia domain first-come-first-served registrations begin
- Sun, Jun 22 – Fri, Jun 27: ICANN meetings in Paris, France