John DemcoResults From The ICANN San Juan Meetings – ICANN meetings took place last week in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here are some results:
- approval of the fiscal year 2008 budget,
- several discussions on new generic top-level domain names and on internationalized domain names,
- a public forum on accountability and transparency,
- a tutorial on domain tasting, and
- discussions around ICANN’s Registrar Accreditation Agreements, the accreditation process and the data escrow process.
ICANN has posted a meeting summary and the resolutions from the Board meeting.
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- The sunrise period for the new .asia domain is to commence on October 9, and will run in several phases until January 15, 2008.
- Jay Westerdal reports that 4000 iPhone domains have been bought this year, and that Apple has acquired iphone.com.
- A beta version of the redesigned IANA website.
- An article on Vint Cerf, who is stepping down from the ICANN Board this year.