ICANN participation

Why does ICANN have the 5 day refund policy for registrars?
This is only an invite for domain fishing i.e. register and park domains and keep the ones that get enough type-in traffic to cover the registration fees. An invitation to SPAM in other words.

From a Business Directory owner...

This is not a foum that i have ever encountered, where is the add new post, change your avatar?

This seems like a controlled listing of text.

So,

If it is not.

What do you think of ICANN?

0 = Very Poor
10 - Fantastic.

Vote now!

I would have a vote thing, but this is not a forum.

Hi
Im lupael from Bangladesh.Im a student and working in a IT Comp. I want to join in the Meeting held on Paris 2008 . But in my Passport my Profession is STUDENT. so it is possible to get Visa in this Profession?

Please inform me at info@lupael.com

With thanks
Md.Ashik Iqbal Lupael
Dhaka
Bangladesh
Cell: +880 1719 153197
E-mail: info@lupael.com
Web: www.lupael.com

I am having a bit of trouble finding webcast and chat links for this week's meeting, any pointers? I have found the media links on the session pages, but where is the info on chat sessions?

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Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim

If you go to to networksolutions.com and search for a domain name the following will happen:
Within no time networksolutions will have registered that domain themselves, locking you into buying it from them.
Of course it is very overpriced.
That's extremely unfair and is not good practice.
I know that their at this moment is no rule against such bad behavior but ICANN should issue a new policy to solve that, because if any registrar did that...
...and its simply unethical.
Please lets act and stand against that fraudulent behavior.

I came from Pakistan by Bus, is it any arrangements from ICANN or Local Host to Pick me from Arrival point to my hotel and Pick my hotel to Venue.

thks

Why is ICANN not doing anything about "leech" behaviour when it comes to purchasing domain names. I find it really frustrating that aside from companies that actively engage in "front running", there are others who have just snapped up domains in bulk with a view to selling them on for hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

For large corporations this kind of money may not be a problem, however for already financially challenged charities, institutions, health organizations and so on it is impossible to have to submit to such unethical behaviour.

In my view there should be a rule which disallows one to sell a domain for more money then domain names currently sell for. If this is legally not possible, then ICANN should come up with alternatives that address not only future purchases but also domains that have already been snapped up by scrupulous companies. For instance there is no reason why any company or organisation should own hundreds of domains. Similarly any domain owned by a company but not being used in a meaningful manner and only having advertising or domain resell should have their domains forcibly made avilable for sale. Another measure would be domain churn - I suspect that bulk purchasers are buying a selling a lot of domains all the time.

If ICANN does not get tough then there will be no reason for ICANN TO exist. We may as well have chaos like we do today. Perhaps it may be appropriate to also check to see who is represented on ICANN's decision making boards - are these people mostly working for registrars and leech companies - after all it would be in a registrars interest to sell as many domains as possible and so bulk purchases are great for business.

At the end of the day, ICANN should in my view serve the needs of larger society and public. This cannot be achieved if the majority voice in ICANN is from people who have a financial interest in the buy/sell/management of domains.

Dear kieren.mccarthy

pls tell me which meeting is useful to me , e.g i attached icann accredietd Domain Registrar Company. mean to say whic meeting is usefull to attend .

Dear kieren.mccarthy

pls tell me im seeing any meeting or workshop on ccTLDs in the schedule, im interested in ccTLDs. pls explain .

thks

Dear kieren.mccarthy

will you tell me please any last date for registration of Participation of New Delhi Meeting.\

Thks

Rgds

Hello everyone,
I'll be in Delhi until Feb 13th's night. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the new gTLD's workshop as, at
that time, I'll be on the plane. Compared to the new
gTLD's workshop in LA meeting, this one won't last too
long (only 1 and 1/2 hours). Do you think there'll be time
for people to make comments, questions,etc?
I would like to post a few comments/questions concerning
the new gTLD's, but I'll be flying at that time. Does
anyone now if it's possible to post a question ahead of
time?
And, last thing, does anyone know if we can attend the
GNSO Council working session on Sunday 10 Feb and the
GNSO Council Meeting on Wednesday 13 Feb?
Thank you!

Hello, im surprised every one can participate in public meeting in New Delhi from any where in the world. Is it true?

Who will be the sponsor of the expenses of accomodation in New Delhi Public Meeting of ICANN

any bod tell me when agenda and meeting schedule is developed and available on site

I found in a blog, and I verified, that networksolusions behave badly. I found no broken rules, so I ask the board to check if ICANN should issue a new consensus policy to solve such missuses.

The problem:

As user I sometime I check from registrar if a domain is available, and only later (maybe after some days) I register it (if it is still available, but usually it is).

But Networksolutions will register the domain few minutes after the check, for one year.

I'm very disappointed about such abuse. I really think that registrar should do fair games on registrar tasks.

Please could someone let me know as to when exactly is the New Delhi Meeting starting? Is it 9th 0r 10th as there are conflicting dates on the website del.icann.org.

Being a student of law my area of interest revovles round UDRP norms. So i wanted to enquire whether the same will be given due attention during this meeting?

I'm a newbie so I hope someone will direct me to the right place. I was wondering if there might be a public forum to discuss issues of registration fraud & how to address it in terms of ICANN. Beyond reporting it to ICANN, I'd like to find out what recourse I might have beyond that, & what ICANN will/can do about it vis a vis the registrar.

Richard Silverstein
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/

Excellent

If you hold a trademark in the domain name, the process you need to be aware of is called UDRP - Uniform Dispute Resolution Process
Now we can communicate in the forum of ICANN

征途私服 志田未来

Hello
I posted here a week ago and my posting has not appeared? Would you be able to look into this please?

Sorry for sending this query as a new posting but I don't see any way of contacting a forum admin.

thanks
Simon Coffey

What would it take to propose and create a new TLD for a region? The European union has .eu In the Caribbean we have both CARICOM and OECS and neither has an allocated 2 letter domain as far as I know.

Hi everybody

I am doing one research above this forum and would you help me?. I have the next question "ICANN corporation considers the ideas presented in this forum?

Estoy participando en una investigacion participante sobre este forum y queria pediros si me podeis contestar la siguiente pregunta: ¿la organizacion ICANN tiene en cuenta las ideas presentadas en este foro?

Regards

jboveb@uoc.edu

Hi to all

That it must make to request a new dominion for a new company? and I must consider that the IP they changed in the future?

Best regards

rogerbosque@terra.es

Does anybody knows how to create a ccTLD Domain? I know that there's a ccTLD for Tokely Islands (in the Pacific), it is www.domainname.tk (you can go to www.dot.tk) . I want to know how to create something like that, for example www.domainname.rj (for Rio de Janeiro, instead .br of Brazil), and all the ccTLD for the region in a country you want. The only limitation could be that the two letters weren't free. Thanks.

can any one explane how icann help any new hosting company ?

There is support for you to Egypt ?

If I want to be a trusted hosting Company what should i do ?

How much money should be spent and I limited monay ?

and if i small hosting company how can you be certified?

i have alot of questions to ask and sorry for my bad english ...

Must be, if on this page I'm reading Kieren saying that UDRP is working and (in the "net coverage" sidebar on the same page) I'm reading a hyperlink "Hot Typo Names" http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2007/7/28/3125690.html pointing to "Pool.com cherrypicks the best of each day's deleting names and features them on its home page and in emails to members. Here's the list for Sunday, July 29, 2007: girlsfight.com, travolicty.com, exspidia.com, 3dsmax.com, porstarbook.com, travelolcity.com, exdedia.com, travelocy.com, travelolicty.com, travelicty.com. You got it: 8 of the top 10 "hot" names are typos. "

This sort of thing is exactly how UDRP is failing and failing badly. Pool should not be a registrar if it's knowingly promoting this and UDRP should be revised to deal with all of these as one batch instead of forcing the counterfeit "travelocity" domains to be handled separately from the bogus "expedia" domains of the same registrant.

TraveLOLcity might be a good name for a parody site, but otherwise, all I see here is the theft of trademark-like names through typosquatting. No registrar should be featuring these on its mainpage as 'business as usual'.

Dear all

Hello, I'm a server manager in a Korean web hosting company. The recently big obstacle occurs in connection of Hangul .com (Korean IDN) domain.

Currently 92% of the Korean Internet users when using the Hangul.com and Hangul.net domain which is registered can only see the message "Page cannot be displayed.”
Before June 26th, it hasn't same current status.

So, All of Korean IDNs registrants are seriously putting on the monetary damage and fame of their site. I asked in various registrars and knew that is because Verisign's web-based navigation system stopped its working. Verisign operated it Korea and the various area does.

Verisign positions which it listens come from registrars is, because MS released IE 7.0, there are not necessity to operating i-nav navigation. But this judgment is to be incorrect at least in Korea.

Although, most of web browser supports IDNs after the release of MS IE v7.0, 93% of Korean users are still using IE v6.0. They can't use 200 thousand registered domains at all without i-nav navigation. After establishing IDNs's international standard, MS which show overwhelming superiority in Korea’s internet environment didn't update for IDNs of IE. Nevertheless, the reason Korean users used hangul.com service was because i-nav navigation gave every facility for it.

Unlike Europe and USA, only 7.34% of Korean users are using web browser what can use IDNs. 99% of Korean users are using MS's internet explorer, 6.8% users among them using v7.0 what support IDNs.
Europe and USA already executed automatic update of i.e. v7.0, but it is uncertain about the time in Asia. In Korea, 92.5% of internet users didn't get any result when they input hangul.com in address input area on the web browser from last Friday

Because well to know Korean Internet environment the KRNIC which is Korean ccTLD registry operates a difference server for Hangul.kr domain will be able to connected right site without help of browser. I think that i-nav navigation server was retired from service by Verisign didn't consider about this situation.

Registrar said they are requesting to solve this problem to Verisign but not expecting to answer in the affirmative. If it keeps on suspending using for hangul.com and hangul.net domain name, much damage is inflicted on 200 thousand domains's registrant and the foundation of IDNs business will be disappeared in Korea future.

Base on these facts, ICANN which control the domain registry needs to consider the seriousness of the problem and to do an appropriate action about it. I expect your sufficient countermeasure for domain and internet's universality.

Thanks for your concern.

* The statistical data are from the internettrend.co.kr's report.