John Demco
CIRA Launches New Member Portal – CIRA has launched a new Member Portal, offering improved navigation and functionality. The portal also features exclusive access to a weekly summary of Internet-related news stories. CIRA membership may be applied for free of charge by .CA registrants.
IOC, Red Cross Seek To Have Names Reserved Under New gTLDs – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Red Cross have written to ICANN seeking to have their names reserved at the top level and second level under the new gTLD process. ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has advised ICANN that it supports the requests. The list of names includes the following: olympic, olympiad, red cross, red crescent, red lion and sun, and red crystal.
Draft Recommendations On .AU Policies Released – The policy panel reviewing the policies for .au domain names has released its draft recommendations. Among the recommended changes are: expanding fixed 2 year registrations to 1-5 year registrations, releasing single character domain names, and relaxing rules for individual registrations under id.au. Public consultation on the draft recommendations is being sought until June 10.
Picks To Click
- VeriSign and the Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) have resolved the CFIT litigation launched in 2005. No payment will be made and all claims will be dismissed.
- The .co.uk domain was DNSSEC signed on May 3. The remaining second-level .uk domains are to be signed by May 18.
- Sunrise has launched under .asia for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean IDNs.
- CIRA has released a report on the future of the Internet in Canada, based upon the Canadian Internet Forum national consultation.
Timeline
- Thu, May 12 – Sat, Jun 11: applications to CIRA’s Nomination Committee solicited
- 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, Aug 2 – Mon, Aug 15: call for Member Nominees for CIRA Board election
- Thu, Aug 25 – Thu, Sep 8: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Tue, Sep 13 – Tue, Sep 20: online forum for CIRA Board of Directors election
- 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