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 [...] Continue reading →

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 [...] Continue reading →

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 [...] Continue reading →

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 [...] Continue reading →

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, [...] Continue reading →

ICANN has a long tradition of working with the Internet community to support technical training, going back 10 years to the ICANN meeting in Carthage, Tunisia in October 2003. Over the years, these trainings have assisted with improving skills, creating awareness of DNS threats and mitigations, and enabled DNSSEC in a number of ccTLDs. Last [...] Continue reading →

Today, ICANN posted a single information source for the current gTLD WHOIS-related agreement provisions and policies to make them easier for the community to access. The suggestion for such a webpage came from the WHOIS Policy Review Team and was accepted by the Board for implementation on 8 November 2012. This single source documents the [...] Continue reading →