The GNSO Council has started discussing bringing in the lawyers over ICANN’s recent handling of issues related to its $200+ million auction fund and Grant Program. The Council today raised the ...
https://domainincite.com/29891-gnso-mulls-lawyering-up-over-auction-fund-dispute
Key ICANN community groups have refused to come down on one side or the other in the debate about proposed content policing powers, leaving the question up in the air as ICANN considers a major b...
https://domainincite.com/29888-jury-still-out-on-icanns-content-policing-powers
There’s been a shocking increase in the time it takes to get a Whois record disclosed under ICANN’s Registration Data Request Service, according to the latest monthly data. It took on average...
https://domainincite.com/29884-it-now-takes-two-weeks-to-get-a-whois-record-with-rdrs
ICANN is spending millions of dollars more than expected in its current financial year, which it blames mainly on inflation pushing up the price of flights and hotels. The latest quarterly financ...
https://domainincite.com/29882-travel-expenses-push-icann-into-the-red-again
The number of gTLD registry back-end providers could more than double during the next new gTLD application round, ICANN’s board of directors has been told. There are currently about 40 registry...
https://domainincite.com/29876-icann-preparing-for-one-hundred-registry-back-ends
It may not help you win a gTLD, but a new method for screwing over your enemies in ICANN’s new gTLD program has emerged. As I reported earlier today, it seems quite likely that ICANN is going t...
https://domainincite.com/29862-a-new-way-to-game-the-new-gtld-program
The would-be new gTLDs .home, .mail and .corp — which were some of the most hotly contested strings in the 2012 application round before ICANN banned them — could get a new lease of life if I...
https://domainincite.com/29861-home-mail-and-corp-could-get-unbanned
Unstoppable Domains and Women in Tech Global have announced that they plan to apply for a new gTLD when ICANN opens the next application round. They want .witg, which Unstoppable has already laun...
https://domainincite.com/29859-unstoppable-to-apply-for-women-in-tech-gtld
ICANN has shirked its compliance duties and is handing GoDaddy a “Get Out of Jail Free” card with proposed changes to their .xxx registry agreement, according to critics. A recently closed pu...
https://domainincite.com/29848-godaddy-getting-a-free-pass-from-porn-jail
Last Friday, I speculated that, based on my back-of-the-envelope calculations, ICANN chair Tripti Sinha could find herself ineligible to continue on the ICANN board of directors this November, du...
https://domainincite.com/29833-could-icanns-chair-be-ousted-by-nomcom