Se faire arrêter et emprisonné pour sédition, de nos jours, ce n’est pas banal ! Ni courant. Le mot même paraît suranné. Le Larousse donne d’ailleurs deux définitions, une pour “autrefois”, l’autre actuelle. Retenons celle d’antan d’un “soulèvement concerté et préparé contre l’autorité établie”. Car c’est exactement ce que le gouvernement espagnol reproche au petit [...] Continue reading →

ICANN Global Domains Division President Akram Attalah made the claim, citing his organisation’s FY18 budget, in a August 29, 2017 letter drafted in response to a proposal made by registries to reimburse some of the ICANN fees they have incurred for the right to operate new gTLDs. The proposal, sent to ICANN in March of [...] Continue reading →

Registries wanting to sell their wares to Chinese registrants are once again facing a tightening of the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)’s regulations. A few days ago, on July 6, the Ministry published a notice excluding registries that do not hold a license from MIIT from operating in China. The notice warns [...] Continue reading →

In what can only be seen as a major coup for new gTLDs, the French national railway’s ecommerce website is set to ditch the .COM web address it’s used for the last 17 years in favour of its own Dot Brand. French media are reporting that SNCF’s www.voyages-sncf.com will become www.oui.sncf in November 2017. Oui [...] Continue reading →

auDA, the Australian regulator of the country’s Internet suffix .AU, has appointed Bruce Tonkin to lead its “registry transformation” project. Tonkin has just ended a 9-year stint on the ICANN Board. He was also previously Chief Strategy Officer for the Australian registrar Melbourne IT. Before initiating its registry transformation project, auDA had been in exclusive [...] Continue reading →

Il occupe le poste de directeur général de l’Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération depuis 2005. Mieux connue sous l’acronyme Afnic, cette association gère le .FR, l’extension Internet française. Mathieu Weill ne sera plus DG de l’Afnic à compter du 1er mai. Aucune raison n’a été donnée pour ce départ, sauf à indiquer [...] Continue reading →

ICANN’s Global Domains Division (GDD) has started organising summits to enable domain industry members who have contracts with ICANN (registries and registrars) to discuss business issues away from the traditional policy-focussed ICANN meetings. The 2016 summit was held in Amsterdam and drew in over 400 participants (from 49 countries). Much lower than the typical attendance [...] Continue reading →