John DemcoICANN Seeks Public Comment On Its Performance – ICANN is seeking community feedback about its performance. Of particular interest to ICANN are comments on transparency, accessibility, accountability, operational performance, policy development, international participation, its multi-stakeholder model, technical coordination, and dispute resolution. Comments will be received until June 5.
CIRA Criticizes ICANN Performance Consultation – CIRA has posted a response to ICANN’s call for public comments on ICANN’s performance. The response notes that ICANN’s steps to increase transparency are encouraging, but goes on to state that this request for public comments “represents a clear step backwards in ICANN’s journey towards becoming a truly transparent and accountable organization.”
ICANN Seeks Input On New Generic Top-Level Domains – ICANN is calling for public input on the development of “a new process for creating, approving, and adding new gTLDs (generic top-level domains like .com, .org etc) to the Internet.” According to ICANN, the new process “will lay out how gTLDs are proposed and approved, and should allow for a much wider variety of them to be added in a timely, predictable, and efficient manner.’ New TLDs could be added between June and August 2008.
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- An interview, including a YouTube video, with outgoing ICANN chairman Vint Cerf has been posted in which he asks people to apply for open Board and Supporting Organization positions.
- An AP article, “Profiteers snap up domain names related to Va. Tech tragedy.”
- The Estate of JRR Tolkien wins a dispute over silmarillion.eu and thesilmarillion.eu.