John Demco
ICANN Appoints Chief Security Officer – Jeff Moss has been appointed as ICANN’s Chief Security Officer. He is the founder of the DEF CON hacker conference and Black Hat, a global technical security conference.
.NL Domain Achieves 25 Year Milestone – SIDN, the registry for The Netherlands’ .nl domain, is celebrating the domain’s 25th anniversary. In 1986, Piet Beertema of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) was given control of the domain on CWI’s behalf, and he registered all .nl domain names for the next 10 years. The domain has developed into the third largest ccTLD, with over 4.4 million active registrations.
Picks To Click
- The ICANN Board has approved IDN top-level domain delegations representing Algeria (الجزائر, “Al Jazair”), Morocco (المغرب, “al-Maghrib”), and Serbia (срб, “srb”).
- CIRA has launched a refreshed and redesigned website.
- On May 4, a U.S. House of Representatives committee will hold a hearing on ICANN Generic Top-Level Domains Oversight.
- Zuffa, LLC wins a dispute over ultimatefightingchampionships.ca.
Timeline
- Wed, Jun 1: two-letter and all-numeric .tel domains landrush
- Wed, Jun 8: World IPv6 Day
- Tue, Jun 14: two-letter and all-numeric .tel domains general availability
- Sun, Jun 19 – Fri, Jun 24: ICANN meetings in Singapore
- Fri, Jul 1: .info registry fee increases
- Tue, Sep 20: CIRA Annual General Meeting in Vancouver
- Wed, Sep 21 – Wed, Sep 28: CIRA Board of Directors election
- Sun, Oct 23 – Fri, Oct 28: ICANN meetings in Dakar, Senegal