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US govt tells ICANN: No accountability, no keys to the internet

posted onDecember 5, 2014
by l33tdawg

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.

ICANN wants to kill off WHOIS

posted onJune 27, 2013
by l33tdawg

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.

ICANN weighs in on how to respond to DDoS attacks

posted onApril 26, 2013
by l33tdawg

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.

ICANN seeks input on new strategic plan

posted onApril 15, 2013
by l33tdawg

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.

Governments register objections to .wtf, .islam and .baby TLDs

posted onNovember 22, 2012
by l33tdawg

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.

ICANN apologises for TLD privacy gaffe

posted onJune 18, 2012
by l33tdawg

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 targets May 22 for reopening gTLD application system

posted onMay 10, 2012
by l33tdawg

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.