ICANN Weekly Newsletter
News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org Week ending 9 October 2009
Announcements This Week
Bulk Transfer of Red Register Domains to DirectNIC
ICANN has authorized a bulk transfer of registrar Red Register Inc.’s
domain names to DirectNIC Ltd., due to the de-accreditation of Red
Register Inc.
8 October 2009
Organizational Review: Extension of Three Public Comment Periods
As requested by Community Members, the deadlines of the three following
public comment periods have been moved to the 22nd of November: SSAC review WG draft report; NomCom review WG draft report; and Board review draft final report.
7 October 2009
Advisory: Availability of Bulk Transfers in Individual gTLDs
This advisory is intended to clarify that Part B of the Transfer Policy
does permit ICANN to approve a bulk transfer of all of a registrar's
names in a particular gTLD without requiring simultaneous transfer of
its names in other gTLDs.
5 October 2009
ICANN Announces Important Milestones in Making the Internet More Accessible to All
In the past several days, ICANN has announced recent milestones
regarding changes in how the Internet community will use the Internet
in the near future. These important developments include the plan for
deployment of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in the next few
months and significant progress in developing the model for delegating
new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
4 October 2009
Public Comments: Draft Report of the NomCom Review Finalization Working Group
In June 2007 Interisle Consulting Group was contracted to undertake the external review of the Nominating Committee. The NomCom Review Finalization Working Group issues now for presentation at the Seoul meeting and for public comment its draft report.
3 October 2009
Public Comments: Draft Report of the SSAC Review Working Group
The Board appointed JAS Communications as the consultants for the
independent review of the Security and Stability Advisory
Committee—SSAC. Based on its analysis of the available evidence and on the numerous comments received, the SSAC review WG releases now its draft report for presentation in Seoul and public comments.
3 October 2009
Public Comments: Draft Final Report of the Board Review Working Group
ICANN appointed the Boston Consulting Group/Colin Carter & Associates to perform the external review of its Board of Directors; The WG releases now its draft final report, which will be presented at the Seoul meeting.
3 October 2009
Upcoming Events
25 - 30 October 2009: 36th International Public ICANN Meeting - Seoul, South Korea
7 - 12 March 2010: 37th International Public ICANN Meeting - Nairobi, Kenya
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