Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Posted November 19th, 2010
As the dates of ICANN 39 loom large, the announcements of the last few weeks are digesting in the collective minds and corners of the domain industry. Preparations for travel, presentations and good old getting down to business are underway and as an industry we have our work cut out for us. We have a Draft Applicant Guide Book to read, analyze and comment on as well as a host of issues on which to come up to speed. There isn’t much time left over to consider what is going on outside of our specific niches.
Whether you are new to ICANN or returning it is beneficial not just to become familiar with the material applicable to your interests but also to become aware of the concerns and positions of the other attendees. You will undoubtedly meet and converse with attendees outside your area of expertise and in the spirit of American scouting organizations we recommend always being prepared.
To help ensure that no one gets caught with their conversational pants down, we posed three questions to various members of the domain community to get their perspective on the most important issues of the meeting. Representatives were selected from the IP, Business, Registry, Registrar and Consulting communities to help broaden the understanding of group needs industry wide.
Below Ken Taylor, Dan Schindler, Michele Neylon, David Goldstein and Phil Adcock share their ideas of what they would like to see come of ICANN 39.
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Tags: Dan Schindler, David Goldstein, ICANN 39, Ken Taylor, Michele Neylon, new gTLDs, Phil Adcock
Posted in Conferences, Events, gTLDS, ICANN, Interviews by Kelly Hardy
Posted November 4th, 2010
We have exactly one month until ICANN 39 when the domain industry will invade a Colombian resort town famous for it’s time as a busy port during the gold and silver trades. The Cartagena meeting, beginning Saturday the 4th of December and ending Friday the 10th, is (with the exception of individual closed meetings) open to anyone who would like to attend. While it may feel as though many of the recent meetings have been a broken record, rehashing the same talking points without moving forward or yielding any tangible action, this meeting more than several of the last, is where we may see the beginning of some real, active change.
With the New gTLD program finally at a point where it looks like things might really be able to move forward, we are facing a meeting that will be extremely New gTLD heavy. It will also be an active meeting for the IDN fast track program and IPv6, which is beginning to make mainstream news. We will (hopefully) see tangible progress of several programs that have been forming over the last few years. The apparent finalization of the New gTLD program should also attract many new attendees bringing new blood and new ideas to the conference.
If you are interested in applying for a new gTLD, this is the 11th hour for forming relationships with the folks you need to contract to assist in the application process as well as anyone you may need to run your back end operations. If your company is concerned with how they might be affected by new gTLDs, this is your meeting. If you are not yet actively involved, the best way for you to judge if all this is for you is to physically be present. If for no other reason this meeting will be a strategic networking opportunity.
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Tags: Cartagena Colombia, ICANN 39, IPv6, new gTLDs, Travel
Posted in Conference City Guides, Conferences, Domain Glossary, Events, gTLDS, ICANN, IDNs, IPv6 by Kelly Hardy
Posted June 25th, 2010
From PCWorld
Pornography will have its own top-level domain, dot-XXX, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers decided Friday.
ICM Registry, the company that proposed the dot-XXX domain, welcomed the vote.
“It’s been a long time coming,” ICM Chairman Stuart Lawley said in a statement, adding that he is “excited” by the move.
“The decision should soon bring to fruition our six-year effort to create a specific Web address for online adult entertainment, and comes on the heels of an independent review that declared that ICANN’s previous decision to deny dot-xxx was wrong,” he said.
ICM Registry says it is a “completely independent entity with no affiliation, current or historic, with the adult entertainment industry.”
That claim of independence gave ICANN board member Rita Rodin Johnston pause for thought. “I still question whether, in fact, there is a real sponsored community here,” she said in the board-meeting debate before the vote.
However, she went on to vote in favor of the new domain, saying that despite her personal reservations about the proposal, she felt obliged to by ICANN’s decision-making process. “It really doesn’t matter what I think. What’s important is that ICANN has a process that it set up and the process came back and said that sponsorship criterion was met, and that this board has the courage to follow that criterion,” she said.
Dot-XXX domains won’t start appearing right away. ICANN must first conduct a “due diligence” study of ICM’s business plan for the domain, and then the board will review the contract proposed for the operation of the domain. That may involve referring the matter to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, which is next scheduled to meet in December in Colombia, said board member Bruce Tonkin.
“There is a potential that this is a prolonged process,” he said.
For the full story go HERE.
Tags: .xxx, ICANN, new gTLDs
Posted in Events, gTLDS, ICANN by Ken Taylor
Posted April 28th, 2010
From ICANN News Alert
ICANN released Measuring the Health of the Domain Name System. This paper presents the findings from the 2nd Global Annual Symposium on DNS Security, Stability and Resiliency, conducted 1-3 February 2010 at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. Program committee members chose to focus this year’s conference on the theme of measuring the health of the DNS. As the entire Internet relies daily on the DNS, understanding its health – both at a given instant and as it changes over time – is critical for being able to reasonably predict the DNS’s health outlook and to decide whether to take corrective measures. The Symposium endeavored to analyze the state of understanding DNS health, the key vital signs for the DNS and how the community might approach improving measurement and assessment of DNS health.
Tags: DNS, ICANN, Kyoto
Posted in Events, ICANN, Internet Security by Ken Taylor
Posted April 9th, 2010
We are a month out from the ICANN Nairobi meeting. It usually takes a few weeks for the dust to settle, to get back into routine and to digest the decisions made or not made during the meeting. Many members of the community were fraught with security concerns and as a result, attendance was incredibly low. Reports from those we spoke with who did attend was that this worked to the advantage of those seeking a sit -down audience with ICANN Board members and staff.
However, there were challenges presented by having large swaths of entire constituencies not in attendance, glitches in remote participation and transcripts as well as security at the meeting so tight it made it difficult to move around freely. This is not the first meeting to have security issues and safety threats. Perhaps it was because of the elaborate security measures that the meeting went off without incident.
This ICANN meeting also received an unusual share of attention from the non-ICANN focused blogosphere thanks in large part to .XXX being on the agenda.
The following is a breakdown of the key decisions made during ICANN Nairobi and what action has been taken on them in the month since the meeting.
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Tags: EOI, ICANN Nairobi, IDNs, new gTLDs, registry/registrar separation
Posted in CCTLD's, Conferences, EOI, Events, gTLDS, ICANN, IDNs, Registrars, Registries by Kelly Hardy
Posted February 16th, 2010
As reported by Domain Name Wire, a panel of experts at Domainer Mardi Gras have predicted that 100-1500 new TLDs will be introduced by 2011-2012.
For the full article, click HERE.
Tags: Domainer Mardi Gras, new TLDS
Posted in Events, gTLDS by Kelly Hardy
Posted February 6th, 2010
On the eve of the 2010 Superbowl, we look forward not only to the yearly ritual of the game, but to the Christmas-eve-like anticipation of the biggest public exposure our industry gets. That’s right, I’m talking about the annual GoDaddy.com Superbowl commercial.
As reported by Domain Name Wire, this years spot will be called “Spa”. Classy.
For the full story on this year’s GoDaddy Superbowl commercial, click HERE.
Tags: GoDaddy, SuperBowl
Posted in Events, Registrars by Kelly Hardy
Posted January 22nd, 2010
The ICANN Board followed ICANN CEO Rod Beck’s suggestion to stick with the current venue for March. See more HERE.
Tags: ICANN, Nairobi, Rod Beck, Security
Posted in Events, ICANN by Ken Taylor
Posted January 21st, 2010
From ICANN News Alert
“A special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors will be held via teleconference on 22 January 2010 at 19:00 UTC.
The purpose of the board meeting is to assess plans for the upcoming meeting in Nairobi, and to consider the security concerns raised by community members in light of recent events.”
Tags: ICANN, Nairobi, Security
Posted in Events, ICANN by Ken Taylor
Posted June 26th, 2009
from CNN
How many people does it take to break the Internet? On June 25, we found out it’s just one — if that one is Michael Jackson.
The biggest showbiz story of the year saw the troubled star take a good slice of the Internet with him, as the ripples caused by the news of his death swept around the globe.
“Between approximately 2:40 p.m. PDT and 3:15 p.m. PDT today, some Google News users experienced difficulty accessing search results for queries related to Michael Jackson,” a Google spokesman told CNET, which also reported that Google News users complained that the service was inaccessible for a time. At its peak, Google Trends rated the Jackson story as “volcanic.”
As sites fell, users raced to other sites: TechCrunch reported that TMZ, which broke the story, had several outages; users then switched to Perez Hilton’s blog, which also struggled to deal with the requests it received.
CNN reported a fivefold rise in traffic and visitors in just over an hour, receiving 20 million page views in the hour the story broke.
See the full skinny HERE.
Tags: CNN, Google Trends, Internet, Michael Jackson Death, TMZ, Twitter
Posted in Events, Social Networks by Ken Taylor
