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Domain Directors, an associated company of Instra Corporation, an auDA
(Australian Domain Name Administrator) and ICANN accredited registrar,
yesterday commenced legal proceedings in the Supreme Court of
Queensland against auDA, the Australian domain name policy and
regulatory body.
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By on Nov 18, 2008 in Doman Name News | 0 Comments
A draft ‘Applicant Guidebook’ for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is now available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian for review and comment at http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-en.htm (http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-en.htm) . The draft Guidebook provides knowledge for those interested in applying for new generic top-level domains.
Designed to accompany the draft Applicant Guidebook is a set of Explanatory Memoranda (http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-21oct08-en.htm) that are intended to assist understanding of the implementation work for new gTLDs.
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The 2009 ICANN Nominating Committee (Nom Com) has been convened and met for the first duration on 7-8 November, immediately following the 33rd universal ICANN Public Meeting in Cairo, Egypt.
Prior to the Cairo meeting, on 28 August 2008, the ICANN Board appointed Tricia Drakes as Nom Com Chair. Tricia has selected Alan Levin as Associate Chair. Due to the bylaws, Hagen Hultzsch, the previous Nom Com Chair will serve as an advisor to the current Nom Com.
2009 Nom Com will choose:
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Nominet (http://www.nominet.org.uk/), the governing body of the .uk domain space, has not been a happy place since the contentious Board election earlier that year (en/general/keep-greedy-domainer-slime-off-nominet-board.html). Events have really come to a head in the last week.On November 10, 2008, one of the domainer members of the Board of Directors, Jim Davies, issued a public letter (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/nominet_resignation_call/page2.html) calling for the resignation of both the CEO, Lesley Cowley, and the Executive Chairman, Bob Gilbert, of Nominet. In his letter, Mr. Davies claims that the CEO and the Executive Chairman have engaged in a campaign against him since his election, including making false allegations, including allegations of criminal conduct, and mishandling complaints against him. On November 13, 2008, one of the domainer members of the Board of Directors, Angus Hanton, resigned from the Board (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/nominet_resignation_call/page2.html). Mr Hanton submitted a blistering resignation letter, which stated in part (http://www.notnominet.org.uk/angus.htm) :I am resigning my position as a non-executive Nominet director with instant effect. As you know I have been unhappy for some instance about how the company is being run - I have had to take legal advice on at least eight separate occasions by the last few months and on each one of them I was advised that what the company was doing was wrong. Furthermore the chairman has refused to pay the costs of non-executive directors getting independent legal advice which runs contrary to good corporate governance, as does too much else at Nominet. The problems clearly lie not with the corporate structure, as David Hendon of BERR has suggested, but with the way the company is actually being run.He continued by echoing Mr. Davies and asking that Lesley Cowley's and Rob Gilbert's positions be put to a membership vote.Today, the Nominet Board issued a communique (http://www.nominet.org.uk/digitalAssets/32855_Board_Communique-November2008.pdf). In the communique, the Board states that they will be commencing legal action against Jim Davies. They claim that Mr. Davies has breached the Companies Act and has several unresolved conflicts of interest.
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ICANN has selected Sydney as the venue for their June 2009 meeting that they expect around 1,700 experts from around the world to discuss issues regarding the future of the Net such as new gTLDs, internationalised domain names and the protection of the DNS.
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Sedo’s domain name sales for the week to 11 October resulted in a big
.net sale with pisos.net selling for €150,000. “Pisos” means “story” in
Spanish. Other notable sales were aed.nl, selling for €25,500,
rencontre.org (€25,000 – meeting in French), voyance.net (€25,000 –
clairvoyance in French) and telefonbuch-deutschland.de (German
telephone book) selling for €19,500.
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In his speech at the ICANN meeting in Cairo, the ITU’s Hamadoun Touré spoke openly of the ongoing ‘war’ amidst ICANN and the ITU writes Milton Mueller. Mueller notes Touré demanded a stronger role for governments in ICANN, dismissed ICANN’s GAC as cosmetic (quite wrong says Mueller) and correctly accused the IGF of avoiding issues but plus rather harshly dismissed it as a waste of moment. Mueller commended Touré for his forthrightness, which is all too rare in universal organizations. Unfortunately, his blunt speech supports the wrong cause.
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By on Nov 17, 2008 in Doman Name News | 0 Comments
The TRAFFIC Down Under Conference (http://www.trafficdownunder.com/) starts in Australia tomorrow. They are featuring two live domain auctions, one held by Aftermarket.com (en/general/aftermarket.com-now-offers-cctlds-for-auction.html) and a second held by RickLatona.com (http://www.ricklatona.com/) . Today RickLatona.com released the list of domains that they will be offering on auction on Thursday. You can view the list of domains here (http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/11/17/final-auction-list-finally-released/). There are a range of domains for all budgets. Highlights of the auction include stellar geo domains, such as Belgium.com and Venice.com. As well, many domains are offered without reserve.It is additionally possible to bid on the auctions in advance, or to bid online during the auction. To participate, you can go here (http://www.proxibid.com/asp/AuctionsByCompany.asp?ahid=2705).
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Amsterdam/Prague
17th November - A few hours before the launch of its Grandfather
period, the CO.NL Operator is proud to announce that the Czech Arbitration
Court (CAC) has agreed to commit the resources of its Online Dispute Resolution
Platform to .CO.NL domain names.
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Sometimes it’s useful to be able to separate some substance from the rest of your page by enclosing it in a rectangular box. This tutorial shows you how you can achieve that using CSS.
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