ICANN just published a schedule of contention resolution Last Resort Auction and they start on June 4th with a goal of having 20 a month and resolving all of them in 1o months. This should push many applicants to go into a private auction where the funds go to the other applicants or in the RightoftheDot.com model even to Charities and other non-profits. There is a schudule of auctions and … [Read more...]
Strickling Refines Last Weeks Announcement On ICANN: No Government-Led Solution Will Be Accepted
Lawrence E. Strickling the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator seems to have backed off the statement he made last Friday, that the US was ready to let ICANN go out of United States control. In an announcement he made today Stickling said: Our announcement has led to some misunderstanding about our plan with some individuals raising concern that the … [Read more...]
Verisign Issues Statement On ICANN’s Move & Is Down Over 5% In Pre-market
VeriSign, Inc. VRSN today provided a statement on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) announcement of its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions. Verisign shares are down over 5% in pre-market activity trading at just over $52 a share. Here is Verisign's announcement: ""The announcement by NTIA on Friday, March 14, 2014, does not affect … [Read more...]
Here Is the Offical Statement Of The US Giving Up Control Over ICANN
We just published that the United States is giving up control over ICANN Here is the official statement from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA): ""To support and enhance the multistakeholder model of Internet policymaking and governance, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration … [Read more...]
Breaking: US To Give Up Control Over ICANN: We Predicted It in 2008
According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. government is preparing to relinquish oversight for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). We predicted back in 2008 that the Obama Administration would give up control over ICANN. According to WSJ.com the move is viewed as a response to increasing international concern about U.S. control over the Internet's structure, … [Read more...]
ICANN Publishes Its Financials For The Six Months Ending December 2013
ICANN published its financials last night for six months ending in December 2013. Here are some of the highlights. You can see the entire results here Here they are: Executive Summary For the Six Months Ending December 2013 The ICANN change in net assets is $3.3M, or 13.6%, higher than budget during the first six months of FY14 mainly as a result of (i) delays in … [Read more...]
iSchool Will Make Their Proposal to End U.S. Control of ICANN in Brazil
It is no secret that the U.S. having full control over ICANN has rubbed a lot of foreign governments the wrong way. There have been a whole host of proposals on the table as to who and how the Internet should be managed. The latest proposal which will be submitted first in Singapore and then Brazil, comes from the School of Information Studies or iSchool. They posted their intentions tonight on … [Read more...]