by David Olive on February 11, 2013
January was a busy month for ICANN community engagement. Building on the successes of the DNS Industry CEO roundtable event and the Europe regional Registry/Registrar meeting, the Non-Contracted community of the GNSO held its first intersessional meeting in Los Angeles as well. This two-day gathering convened 43 non-contract community leaders from the GNSO as well [...]
by Fadi Chehadé on February 7, 2013
Building on the great work that has been achieved to date, yesterday I met with the Registrar Stakeholder Group’s Negotiating Team to continue with negotiations toward a new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). We started the day by affirming our commitment to further, in good faith, a new RAA that will address the needs of the [...]
by Fadi Chehadé on February 5, 2013
On Monday, I was very pleased to host more than a dozen leaders from the registry community; participants in our latest CEO Roundtable series focused on key issues and trends within the Domain Name System sector. Over the course of a day, we discussed the evolution of the DNS sector from a number of perspectives [...]
by Joe Abley on February 4, 2013
In December 2012, ICANN announced the start of work to collect and publish data which would help correlate performance of L-Root with growth in the root zone. The first set of measurements concerned with identifying growth in the root zone, was published last month. Details of the project can be found in the document “Root [...]
by Tim Cole on February 4, 2013
The recently completed Europe Regional Registry/Registrar Meeting held in Amsterdam exceeded all previous regional meetings in local and remote participation. The meeting was attended by 240 current or prospective registries and registrars and observers. There were over 200 remote connections during the two-day event with a peak of 57 remote participants at one time. This [...]