Chehade Answers Domainers Concerns
ICANN’s executive Mr. Fadi Chehade has stirred a lot of comments after his statement in Davos about domains purchasers who were described as individuals wanting to earn more and more for the addresses they submit for selling later on.
In a detailed interview for Huffington Post, he explained how the internet evolved from a small number of domain names to literally hundreds of them in a very short period of time, due to a simple modification, which led to a massive development in this industry.
He also outlined the benefits of the possibility for users to access web addresses in other languages, such as Arabic and called this a globalisation of the system.
As for ICANN’s role in the process of “hogging names” (as he called them), he said that criticism is unjustified as suppliers of services are not to be blamed for the way the final users use that particular service. He also expressed the opinion that higher fees for domain registrations would not stop such practices from happening since the price for domain names is lower in comparison to that for building a website.
The ICG Announces Suggestions Release
The IANA Group called ICG has released a set of suggestions regarding the groups of users, asking that all the contributors at the important processes should be involved more seriously.
The suggested alternatives are to provide opinions either in a direct way to the ICG or by using an email address offered by the group.
The next phase involves participants to discuss about the parameters in use and the received proposals, as well as the requests and concerns from the community of users.
The IANA’s proposals set are expected to get a large number of comments and all users are encouraged to express their opinions in one of the two earlier mentioned modalities.
Armenian Script Receives Green Light from ICANN
The Generation Panel for the Armenian Script Root Zone Label Generation Rules has been approved, according to ICANN, after evaluating the way it follows the set of rules included in the document which reglements this aspect.
The ICANN specialists have reviewed all the documentation that the Armenian script community has sent for evaluation, to make sure that it meets the parameters established in the LGR Procedure.
Not that it has been accepted, the Armenian Script can begin developing the label generation directions.
ICANN’s contribution to this project will be to offer a working place on their website where any of the relevant suggestions and news about the project will be published and discussed.
For the future, additional scripts will be developed, among which we could mention Greek, Japanese, Latin, Arabic, Thai, Cyrillic, Hebrew or Korean.
New Specialist To Work On The Security Of ICANN’s Systems
A new appointment for RSSAC has been made in the person of Tripti Sinha, who was previously involved in developing security systems for other companies.
The position will be effective for two years and Sinha was chosen for the experience of 25 years in the field of technology. She will join other specialists such as Lars Johan Liman who will be leading RSSAC in matters related to the security and operation of the Internet’s Root Server System.
Accompanied by three more advisory committees, the RSSAC supports and is involved into ICANN’s efforts to develop the multi-stakeholder strategies on a long term.
Prior to Sinha, this position was held by Dr. Jun Murai for 15 years, being one of the first nine ICANN Directors. He contributed heavily to the rapid growth of the root system and consequently he received recognition on the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 for the accomplishments during his career.
New Domain Names Released by Global Registry
All users interested in registering new domain names will have a new opportunity to do that with the recent release from Global Registry of more than 3500 addresses. The majority of them have been reserved by ICANN.
The release was made at the same time with the launch of a website which makes announcements about the latest available domain names resulted from name collisions:
https://go.global/premiumnames/list.php?type=csv&id=dlist&bn=1
There is even a promotion according to which if one registers ten or more names, they will receive a 25% cashback rebate for every name they submit.
Some of the newly released names include: Kiss.global, Appliances.global, Clocks.global, Freevideo.global, Shirts.global, Offers.global, Gardens.global and Tower.global.
