John DemcoSeptember 2 Last Day For CIRA Members To Show Support for Member Nominees – Members of CIRA have until 6:00 pm Eastern time on Tuesday, September 2 to show support for Member Nominees in the upcoming Board of Directors election. In order to be listed on the ballot, each Member Nominee must obtain formal support from at least 20 CIRA members. The final slate of candidates is scheduled to be announced on September 9.
Picks To Click
- The .org and .uk domains have each surpassed 7 million registrations.
- The US government will use DNSSEC for all top-level .gov names by January 2009, and will deploy DNSSEC capabilities to all applicable information systems by December 2009.
- The agenda of the September 9, 2008 meeting of the CIRA Board of Directors.
- Spafinder, Inc. wins a dispute over spafinder.ca.
- Salesforce.com, Inc. wins a dispute over salesforce.ca.
Timeline
- Tue, Aug 19 – Tue, Sep 2: shows of support for Member Nominees for CIRA election
- Mon, Sep 8: .pro domain relaunches
- Tue, Sep 9: final slate of candidates for CIRA Board election listed
- Wed, Sep 10: CIRA Annual General Meeting in Vancouver
- Thu, Sep 18 – Thu, Sep 25: voting period for CIRA Board of Directors election
- Wed, Oct 1: .com and .net registry fees increase
- Sat, Nov 1: .info registry fees increase
- Sun, Nov 2 – Fri, Nov 7: ICANN meetings in Cairo, Egypt
- Sun, Nov 9: .org registry fees increase
- Wed, Dec 3 – Mon, Feb 2: .tel domain registrations commence for trademark holders
- Tue, Feb 3 – Mon, Mar 23: .tel domain registrations commence at a premium price
- Sun, Mar 1 – Fri, Mar 6: ICANN meetings in Mexico City, Mexico
- Tue, Mar 24: .tel domain registrations open to all