America's assistant commerce secretary Larry Strickling has told domain-name overlord ICANN that without improvements to its accountability the US government will not hand over the crucial IANA contract.
IANA is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, a department of ICANN that oversees the DNS system keeping the internet glued together, the allocation of IP addresses, and other crucial behind-the-scenes bits of online life.
An ICANN working group wants to replace the current WHOIS system for retrieving details of domain name registrations.
The Expert Working Group on gTLD Directory Services (EWG) is calling for public input on a successor to the current WHOIS system used to retrieve domain name information.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has weighed in on what organisations should do if they find themselves under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Its senior security technologist Dave Piscitello has prepared a basic primer for what the organisation thinks victims should do if they experience an attack, writing up his recommendations on the organisation's blog.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), now in the process of creating a new vision and strategic plan, is seeking feedback from the community on how its future will be shaped.
The organisation is about to begin revising its strategic plan. It's decided to split the program and projects from its existing strategic plan, with its new plan being formed from June.
ICANN's big generic top-level domain (gTLD) rollout, planned for April 23, needs to be delayed because the system isn't ready, Verisign and others are warning – and ICANN itself has told The Register that the first gTLD domains won't come online until at least August.
An international panel representing a selection of governments from around the world has registered more than 240 objections to proposed generic top level domains, including .wtf, .baby, and .islam.
The Governmental Advisory Committee has contacted each applicant directly with an Early Warning notice which generally asks for further information or requests clarification, but in some cases advises withdrawal of an application.
Global domain name regulator ICANN has apologised for inadvertently publishing full contact information of those who applied for a generic top-level (gTLD) domain earlier this week.
ICANN publicly revealed the list of nearly 2000 proposed top-level domains and the names of the applicants as part of a splashy event on Wednesday in London.
ICANN on June 13 will kick off a land rush of sorts when it posts the list of proposed 2,000-plus new top-level domains and the 1,000 or so organizations that want them.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to reopen on May 22 its system that will allow people to apply for a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
The TAS (TLD application system) was brought down on April 12 by the organization after it found a software glitch in the way the application system handled attachments, that could result in some users being able to see some other users' file names and user names in certain scenarios.
