John Demco
ICANN Meets This Week In Senegal – ICANN is meeting this week in Dakar, Senegal. The new gTLD program will be a main topic, with others including IDNs, DNSSEC, IPv6, WHOIS, and ICANN’s search for a new CEO. Remote participation will be available for many sessions.
U.S. Government To Solicit Bids On The IANA Contract – The U.S. Department of Commerce is planning to issue a Request for Proposals to maintain the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions, including responsibilities associated with the root zone and the allocation of Internet numbering resources. The solicitation is expected to run for one month starting on November 4. Presently the IANA is operated by ICANN.
Picks To Click
- Kieran McCarthy comments on U.S. government plans to put out the IANA functions for competitive bidding.
- The governments of the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria are planning to apply for .sydney, .melbourne, .victoria, and possibly .nsw as new TLDs.
- Norwegian companies will soon be allowed to register up to 100 .no domain names. The old limit was 20.
- Shaw Cablesystems G.P. wins a dispute over myshaw.ca.
- Brar Natural Flour Milling Inc. wins a dispute over sheratta.ca, brarflour.ca, and brarflourmilling.ca.
- ICANN has announced that it is taking over operation of an Internet time zone database after receiving a request from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Timeline
- Sun, Oct 23 – Fri, Oct 28: ICANN meetings in Dakar, Senegal
- Tue, Dec 13: CIRA IDN consultation closes
- Sun, Jan 15: .com, .net registry fees increase