John Demco
Here is a selection of recent items:
- At the close of the ICANN meetings held last week in Costa Rica, ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom and Chairman Steve Crocker were interviewed concerning the New gTLD Program and other aspects of ICANN. Beckstrom indicated that there are 290 registrants in the TLD Application System (TAS) as of March 16. Each TAS registrant is eligible to apply for up to 50 new gTLDs. The deadline to register in the TAS is March 29, the deadline for new gTLD applications is April 12, and ICANN will announce the list of applicants and applications on May 1.
- The .UK domain has reached 10 million registrations.
- CIRA has developed a checker to screen for the DNSChanger malware.
Timeline
- Fri, Mar 23: last day for 2012 .CA Impact Awards entries
- Thu, Apr 12: last day for new gTLD applications
- Mon, May 14: 25th anniversary of the delegation of the .CA domain
- Sun, Jun 24 – Fri, Jun 29: ICANN meetings in Prague, Czech Republic