Posts Tagged ‘San Francisco’

.Jobs foes to ICANN: Hurry up, open up, and get a spine

Coalition calls out ICANN for apparent lack of progress in dealing with Employ Media. The .Jobs Charter Compliance Coalition, a group of job boards opposed to expansion of the .jobs namespace, has sent a letter (pdf) to ICANN’s CEO and Board of Directors asking it to hurry up, open up, and get a spine. Hurry [...]

Off to ad:tech, The Show Without Its Domain Name

Huge trade show for online advertising has a disappointing domain name. This morning I’m off to ad:tech, a large interactive advertising conference, in San Francisco. Countless times over the past month I’ve gone to ad:tech’s web site to remind myself of the agenda, book a hotel, etc. And most of the time I type in [...]

Sorry Beckstrom, You Should Have Voted on .XXX

ICANN CEO’s abstention from .xxx vote is weak. During ICANN’s meeting in San Francisco last month a number of board members gave their rationale for or against .xxx. Some members abstained and stated their reason. So it was a little odd when ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom didn’t vote. He whispered something away from the microphone [...]

ICANN Board: You Got It Right. Then You Got It Wrong. Now, Get It Right Again.

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The ICANN Board has itself in a pretty pickle. The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Consultancy with the Board in Brussels was an apparent non-starter. After hundreds of man-hours’ worth of comments provided by the Intellectual Property Constituen…

ICA Tells DOC of Concerns Over USG and GAC "Scorecards"

Internet Commerce Association (ICA) Tells Department of Commerce that USG and GAC Scorecard Goals Could Undermine ICANN’s Multi-Stakeholder Model While Trampling on Registrant Rights

The ICA has just dispatched a letter to Assistant Secretary of Comm…

ICANN Slashes Meeting Sponsorship Prices Up to 50%

Non-profit reverses course and lowers price to sponsor meetings. Currying favor with the ICANN crowd just got a lot cheaper. Well, at least compared to last week. In advance of its meeting in San Francisco next month, ICANN doubled the cost of many of its sponsorship packages. It also added a new level at $500,000. [...]

.nxt Conference Inspires and Informs New gTLD Debate

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The first-ever .nxt conference recently concluded in San Francisco. The conference featured two days of productive, educational, and passionate discussion about the business of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

While ICANN’s public meetings have…