As we march closer to the launch of new generic top-level domains, focus has shifted to the process of how the approved gTLDs become active in the domain name system. Activating a top-level domain involves making changes to the DNS root zone – a process known as “delegation”. The delegation process is managed by ICANN’s [...]

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Dr. Steve Crocker Visits With Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra In Bangkok, June 7 2013 Earlier this month, Dr. Stephen Crocker and I had the privilege of visiting Thailand’s capital city, Bangkok.  We spent the week meeting with local Internet and business pioneers. Our first official task was to attend an international conference for the [...]

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It is with great pleasure that I share with you some exciting new organizational changes that will be taking place at the start of the new fiscal year on July 1, and which are part of my desire to increase ICANN’s focus on management at all levels. To handle the tremendous increase in scale resulting [...]

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I had the privilege to attend the ITU’s World Telecommunication Policy Forum (WTPF) last week in Geneva alongside Fadi, Tarek Kamel, Steve Crocker and other Board members. Apart from the rain, it was a very good week! As followers of the Internet Governance agenda can appreciate, there was some trepidation in the lead up to [...]

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During the Public Forum session at the recent ICANN meeting in Beijing, community members asked the Board quite a few important questions and made some interesting comments. In response, we have conferred with those ICANN staff members who have the greatest expertise in the areas of the inquiries, in order to give thorough and accurate [...]

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I am delighted to report that we have now posted a proposed final draft of the New gTLD Registry Agreement. Similar to the proposed 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) that was posted for public comment on 22 April 2013, the ICANN community is now able to review and comment on this final draft before it [...]

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On April 23, I met with leaders of ccTLDs, Registries, and Registrars in New York City for a milestone event that converged our work initiated during each of the CEO Roundtables hosted since the beginning of this year. Throughout the roundtable series, I have learned a great deal and have been profoundly impressed by the [...]

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Dave Piscitello, on behalf of the ICANN Security Team DDoS attacks are serious problems. While ICANN’s role in mitigating these threats is limited, the Security Team offers these insights to raise awareness on how to report DDoS attacks Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives [...]

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We are there. As a result of sincere and constructive negotiations that have gone on for nearly 18 months, a new 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement is in our hands. All remaining differences have been settled and ICANN and the members of the Registrar Negotiating Team have achieved an agreement on all issues. As you know, [...]

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