I’m proud to announce that Rodrigo de la Parra, the Director General of Prospective Regulation of Mexico’s Federal Commission of Telecommunications (Cofetel), will join ICANN as our new representative to the Latin American region. Rodrigo is already well versed in ICANN’s multi-stakeholder model, having served as the Mexican representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee. He [...]

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November 11, 2010, marked the day when the new IDN ccTLD .рф (Cyrillic for Российская Федерация, Russian Federation) was opened for general registration. Prior to that date the registration was open only for trademark owners and governmental institutions. Before the registration started, in an interview for the КоммерсантЪ (Commersant) daily, Andrey Kolesnikov, CEO of the [...]

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Having an Internet Governance workshop at ICANN meetings has become a norm in the past few years. The purpose of such workshops is to inform ICANN community of developments taking place at IGF fora, and to allow participants to exchange views on the various issues under debate. At last week’s workshop at the ICANN meeting [...]

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ICANN delegation visits Moscow, Russia May 12-14, 2010. A delegation from ICANN, headed by President and CEO Rod Beckstrom and including Barbara Clay, Tina Dam and Veni Markovski, was in Moscow on a 3-day visit, and participated actively in a number of events (in time order): – A meeting at the Institute for Information Security [...]

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شهد يوم الأربعاء 5 مايو 2010 إدراج أول ثلاثة أسماء نطاقات عليا دولية لرموز الدول في منطقة الجذر الخاصة بنظام أسماء النطاقات مما يعني أن تلك الأسماء يمكن استخدامها على الإنترنت.‏ الدول الثلاث التي تم إضافة رموزها الدولية في نفس اللحظة إلى منطقة الجذر هي: • المملكة العربية السعودية • جمهورية مصر العربية • دولة [...]

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The last week has been focused on historic IDN accomplishments and news: The first four IDN ccTLDs have been introduced and are all functioning. The corresponding countries are: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russian Federation, and Egypt. This essentially means that we have started seeing domain names where the top-level/extension is either: امارات. السعودية. .рф [...]

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Первый Российский форум по управлению Интернетом, организованный Координационным центром национального домена сети Интернет при поддержке Министерства связи и массовых коммуникаций РФ состоится 13-14 мая 2010 г. в Экспоцентре на Красной Пресне. Цель проведения Российского форума по управлению Интернетом – объединить все профессиональные точки зрения и организовать дискуссию для поиска консенсуса между государственными органами, профессиональным телекоммуникационным [...]

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IDN TLDs: pre-registrations, declined requests, and other misconceptions Recent statements and speculations have been made concerning the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process and related issues. People seem to be most concerned about: • ICANN denying some countries/territories access to the Fast Track Process • ICANN approving IDN ccTLDs • The notion of pre-registrations in new [...]

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The first four IDN ccTLD requests has just been announced as having completed the String Evaulation portion of the Fast Track Process. These are associated with: Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. See the full announcement here: http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-21jan10-en.htm So what does that mean? It means that these may now initiate the [...]

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