With a recent expansion in the number of comments the ICANN blog has been receiving, there have been a number of queries and complaints about individual comments not appearing. As such we felt it would be helpful to state ICANN’s policy on blog comments so the community is aware of the system in place.

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This shows the number of domains transferred away from RegisterFly.com for the dates of March 9, 10, 11, 2007. The numbers were: Date No. domains transferred March 9 1,114 March 10 707 March 11 345 ICANN has not received numbers for March 12. This demonstrates that transfers are occurring, but the number is possibly small [...]

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After discussions today with RegisterFly it seems clear that RegisterFly now has no technical impedements to do what’s necessary to service its eNom customers, including obtain auth-codes. ICANN would be grateful for information about whether eNom customers are receiving auth-codes to keep a close watch on this matter. RegisterFly has setup an email address called [...]

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ICANN spoke yesterday with Kevin Medina and Mark Klein of RegisterFly. ICANN asked for greater clarity from RegisterFly about auth-info codes and draw attention to this link to the registerfly.com auth-info codes retrieval process. RegisterFly indicated that auth-info codes are being distributed to customers via RegsiterFly.com and customer service channels and they claimed that the [...]

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The United States District Court in New Jersey yesterday awarded Kevin Medina control of RegisterFly.com Inc. The decision resolves a dispute over ownership of the company. The resolution of this issue does not alter RegisterFly obligations to immediately cure the breaches of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement, as noticed by ICANN. ICANN has been advised and [...]

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Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. A quick run through (by no means thorough) came up with the following number of women on various ICANN groups: Board: 4 of 15 or 27% Interim ALAC: 5 of 14 or 36% Nominating Committee: 3 of 22 or 14% GNSO: 5 of 22 or 23% ASO: 0 [...]

Today ICANN posted the first [pdf] in what we hope will be a series of factsheets that will help explain various elements of ICANN’s mission as well as wider, technical aspects of the Internet. The aim and intention is very clear: many of the issues that affect the Internet are quite technical and as a [...]

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A quick update – RegisterFly’s website is back up and Glenn Stansbury of RegisterFly claims that transactions are being processed. If you wish to unlock names and get auth codes go to www.registerfly.com In addition, RegisterFly claims to have more people working on the phone, answering customer calls, and more doing technical support.

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This is a reminder that the 2007 ICANN Nominating Committee is inviting Statements of Interest on three open positions for the ICANN Board of Directors, two members of the GNSO Council, one member of the ccNSO and three members of the At-Large Advisory Committee. Statements of Interest are due by 1 May 2007. More information [...]

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