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...

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...

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....

This is a further update for those affected by RegisterFly. The first occurred Friday on our main website. If you are a RegisterFly customer you will know from the extremely poor customer service you are getting, that RegisterFly is experiencing internal problems...

Yesterday .TEL was added to the root zone, becoming the 15th gTLD under contract with ICANN on the Internet. Congratulations to Telnic on this achievement.

Was excited to see this article on the BBC: “The Next US leader? Ask a Ninja” over my morning coffee and it’s not just because I think ninjas are the coolest. There are a number of groups around the world who are experimenting with the impact of the Internet on how people...

You’d be surprised how many people are asking that question at the moment, but you won’t be surprised to know that the only thing they agree on is that they either don’t know, or that they disagree with the people that believe they do. I am not going to attempt to provide...

It was interesting to see discussions start on the blog around “What does it take to run a registry”. Jacob Malthouse (Liaison for Canada and the Caribbean) and I (John Crain, CTO) have just returned from Georgetown, Guyana. With us in Georgetown, locked into a classroom...

There’s a great piece in the New York Times today that’s had me thinking about the importance of ICANN meetings, face to face interaction, and civility within the ICANN mailing lists. The basic gist of the piece is that when we are interacting in an online environment we...

I am a new Board member, and this is my first blog entry, ever. As a new guy on the block (or maybe a recycled one, since I had been retired for four years before joining the Board), I just want to let you all know that the Board is much more active and deals with many...

Usually it’s very rude to cut someone off in the middle of a conversation, but when the excuse is an email saying the foundation of the Internet is under attack, and the recipient is the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, well, then it’s...

Before I joined ICANN staff nearly a year ago, I bought domains, set up websites, let domains expire, ran a blog, read about domain name disputes, registration policies and procedures, communicated with registrars and registries, and eventually attended meetings to learn...

(Ver traducción al Español más abajo) ICANN has launched a network of liaisons, each with a regional focus, to enhance ICANN’s worlwide response and outreach capacity. While the regional focus of the liaisons is primary, the network is sharing expertise along dimensions...

That’s the question that has been reverberating around one of the mailing lists that covers Internet issues. It’s an important question, and once in which we hope our community have some answers – or, at least, some pointers. What does it take to run a Top Level Domain...

ICANN last week hosted its fourth Registry/Registrar Regional Gathering and this one took place in Santa Monica, CA. More than 65 guests representing 30 registrars and 12 registries/sponsors attended making this the largest event to date. The event kicked off with an open...

The 2007 ICANN Nominating Committee is currently inviting Statements of Interest from the Internet community for the following positions: Three members of the ICANN Board of Directors Two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) One...

Just a quick note to advise that ICANN last night hosted representatives from a range of Registries and Registrars at our office in Marina Del Rey in California. It was a precursor to a North American Regional gathering that was held today and will continue tommorrow....

Being a new Regional Liaison is a challenging task (esp. when there are Regional Liaisons like Giovanni Seppia, who have served longer;-). My region is fascinating: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,...

The ICANN meeting in Lisbon, Portugal is less than sixty days away from today. The meeting is being held in Lisbon 26-30 March 2007. More information on the agenda will soon be posted on the ICANN website (http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/). You can also view the...

Last year, American retailer Wal-Mart gave up in an attempt to expand into Germany, and one of the reasons they cited was that they didn’t understand the local market. “Did you know that American pillow cases are a different size than those in Germany?” Wal-Mart Germany...

Hi. I just wanted to thank people for their support for the creation of this blog. I think this will be a useful way of being more accessible as an organisation and to be a little more responsive to questions and observations. But this started with the release of our...

Download ICANN Annual Report 2005–2006 [PDF, 908K] ICANN is pleased to provide its first annual report in accordance with its commitments established under the Joint Project Agreement signed in September 2006. As part of ICANN’s commitment to greater transparency and...

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