ICANN: IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group – Announcement Regarding Community Comments
The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group ( ICG )’s Request for Proposals [PDF, 84 KB] from the operational communities noted the following: “While the ICG is requesting complete formal proposals through processes convened by each of the operational communities, and that all interested parties get involved as early as possible in the relevant community processes, some parties may choose to provide comments directly to the ICG about specific aspects of particular proposals, about the community processes, or about the ICG ‘s own processes. Comments may be directly submitted to the ICG any time via email toThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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The ICG will next be discussing the protocol parameters and numbers proposals on February 6. As such, the ICG requests that community comments concerning those two proposals or the processes used to create them be received by February 4 at 23:59 UTC. Comments received after that time will not be considered as part of Step I of the ICG ‘s Proposal Assembly and Finalization Process [PDF, 89 KB] for the protocol parameters and numbering proposals.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-02-02-en
ICANN: RSSAC Elects Tripti Sinha as Co-Chair
The Root Server System Advisory Committee ( RSSAC ) has elected Tripti Sinha, Assistant Vice President and Deputy CIO for the Division of Information Technology at the University of Maryland, as co-chair effective 1 January 2015. Sinha will serve in this leadership capacity for two years. The ICANN Board of Directors appointed Sinha, who brings 25 years of technology experience, to the RSSAC in 2014 as the D-Root Server Operator representative on behalf of the University of Maryland.
Sinha joins Lars-Johan Liman, Senior Systems Specialist at Netnod, the I-Root Server Operator, as co-chair for 2015. Together, Liman and Sinha will lead the RSSAC in its important mission of advising the ICANN Board of Directors and stakeholder community on matters relating to the operation, administration, security, and integrity of the Internet’s Root Server System. The RSSAC is one of four advisory committees and three supporting organizations that comprise ICANN ‘s global, bottom-up, multistakeholder policy development community.
With Sinha’s election, Dr. Jun Murai, Founder of The WIDE Project, ends his fifteen-year tenure leading the RSSAC . Professor Murai was the first RSSAC Chair and one of the original nine ICANN Directors. He subsequently led RSSAC through the growth and development of the root server system as well as internal reviews.
Dr. Murai was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 for his many career achievements and significant contributions—spanning technical and academic work—in Japan, the Asia Pacific region, and the broader global Internet community. He will remain on the RSSAC as the appointed representative for The WIDE Project, the M-Root Server Operator.
To learn more about the RSSAC , please visit rssac.icann.org.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-02-02-en
ICANN: Draft Report: Rights Protection Mechanisms Review
Purpose (Brief): ICANN is posting a draft review report [PDF, 1.27 MB] on the rights protection mechanisms (RPMs) established as safeguards in the New gTLD Program. This paper is intended to provide an outline for an initial review of the effectiveness of the rights protection mechanisms.
Particularly, this paper reviews the data and input collected in many of the key areas relating to rights protection mechanism, including the Trademark Clearinghouse, Uniform Rapid Suspension system, and Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedures.
Public Comment Box Link: https://www.icann.org/public-comments/rpm-review-2015-02-02-en
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2015-02-02-en
Toshiba Files Complaint for Toshiba-TLDS.com Domain Name in Arbitration
Toshiba has filed a UDRP ,seeking control of Toshiba-TLDS.com domain name.The complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum a few days ago.
The complaint was filed with the National Arbitration Forum on January 2,2015.
According to whois records, Toshiba-TLDS.com was first registered in April,2014.
The National Arbitration Forum will examine if Toshiba-TLDS.com domain is confusingly similar to Toshiba’s trademark,if the current owner has rights over it and if the domain is being used in bad faith .The disputed domain name will be passed over to Toshiba if it falls under all three of these stipulations.
The case is still pending compliance checks with the National Arbitration Forum .
.NZ Passes 600,000 Registrations
New Zealand’s country code, .nz, passed the 600,000 mark last week. While not in the millions of registrations like some, it is still an impressive figure for the ccTLD given New Zealand’s population is 4.4 million.
The milestone was passed just before 17:00 on Wednesday 28th January 2015, InternetNZ announced today (2 February).
The ccTLD has seen recent growth supported by the launch of second level .nz domains, allowing for domains such as anyname.nz rather than anyname.co.nz.
InternetNZ Chief Executive, Jordan Carter is pleased that .nz continues to be the domain name of choice for New Zealanders in the face of growing competition in the market.
“The Internet has brought the world to our doorstep and despite the almost limitless choices that people now have, recent research shows that Kiwis continue to overwhelmingly see .nz as the most trust-worthy domain space.”
