The preadvertised discussion on Accreditation issues arising out of the RegisterFly situation is on now at Lisbon. If you are a registrant or you have views you would like to express you can visit the meeting through the ICANN public participation site and we will make sure your questions are asked and your comments provided. [...]

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Having just arrived in Lisbon, I’d like to share some useful information for all ICANN meeting participants. When you land at the airport, you may be asked by the taxi drivers that you need to pay up to Euro 20 for transport to the hotel. In reality, the price should be below Euro 10 – [...]

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In an effort to provide interested observers with some up-to-date information on what is happening with ICANN, the organisation’s general manager of public participation interviewed ICANN’s president and CEO Paul Twomey. The interview, running at just over 10 minutes, is made available here as an MP3 audio file. The interview will be the first in [...]

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ICANN will be holding a public meeting specifically on RegisterFly as part of its opening open forum in Lisbon on Monday 26 March. President and CEO Paul Twomey will give his president’s report at 10.30am GMT/UTC in which he will briefly cover what should be discussed in the session. Then, at 12pm there will be [...]

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ICANN’s updated Contractual Compliance program (http://www.icann.org/compliance/), which includes ICANN’s Contractual Compliance philosophy, vision and operating plan, has been published to provide clear, transparent information regarding contractual compliance. ICANN thanks the community for its participation and contribution to date to the Contractual Compliance Program and the community is encouraged to provide comments regarding this document.

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ICANN received the following transfer statistics from RegisterFly overnight. We post these following our request last week for this daily information. Date No. domains transferred March 12 1,177 March 13 1,200 March 14 1,143 March 15 1,235 March 16 1,343 March 17 1,897 March 18 1,736 March 19 1,789 March 20 178

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ICANN’s President and CEO, Dr Paul Twomey has called for major review of ICANN’s Registrar Accreditation Agreements (RAA) and the Accreditation process. He made the following statement and posed some questions. “What has happened to registrants with RegisterFly.com has made it clear there must be comprehensive review of the registrar accreditation process and the content [...]

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In 1854 London Dr. John Snow, by mapping incidence of cholera, was able to make the connection to that city’s water system. The recent New York Times Article “Research Tracks Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages” considers research by Microsoft and the University of California, Davis tracking down some of the roots of spam [...]

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ICANN today issued a formal notice of termination of RegisterFly.com’s Registration Accreditation Agreement (RAA). ICANN has issued a letter to RegisterFly indicating that it will cease operating as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar on March 31, 2007. Under the terms of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), ICANN must provide 15 days written notice to RegisterFly of its [...]

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