John DemcoICANN Posts Proposed 2007-2008 Budget – ICANN has posted its proposed budget for 2007-2008. Expenses are budgeted to be $US 43 million, an increase of more than $13 million over the current budget year’s projected year-end total.
Owner of .TRAVEL Registry Reports Financial Difficulties – Theglobe.com, which acquired .travel registry operator Tralliance in 2005, states in its quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission that it may not be able to fund its operations beyond May 2007 unless it receives additional capital, and that “management believes that the Company will continue to be unprofitable in the foreseeable future.” (From Edward Hasbrouck’s blog.)
auDA Releases .AU Issues Paper, Calls For Comments – auDA’s 2007 Names Policy Panel has released an issues paper and is calling for public comment. Issues include: whether .au should be opened up to direct registrations (eg. domainname.au), whether the policy rules for domain names should be changed, and whether registrants should be allowed to sell their .au domain names. The closing date for submissions is June 15.
Picks To Click
- Monday, May 21 is the deadline for applications to the CIRA Nomination Committee
- The agenda of the June 1, 2007 meeting of the CIRA Board of Directors.
- The minutes of the April 24, 2007 meeting of the CIRA Board of Directors.
- Nominations are open for the Board of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), registry operator for the .org domain