ICANN participation

Europe moved from summer time to winter time last night but the California won't do so until next weekend. This means that for the week of the ICANN meeting the time difference between Europe and the US is different than normal.

Anyone who wants to follow the sessions at this week's meeting will need to take account of the difference in the normal time calculations this week.
On Monday at 9am in Los Angeles it will be 5pm in Brussels and 4pm in Lisbon which is one hour earlier than last week.

A Tale of TWO CITIES? TWO ORGANISATIONS?

Problem: Someone or somehow our domain names are hijacked and transferred without our permission to another registrar and we lose control and ownership!

CITY ONE: ICANN
Issue:
1. Losing Registrar does not want to know! Nothing to do with us GOV! (UK expression).

2. New Registrar says he can't do anything unless a Dispute Transfer is initiated by the Losing Registrar who of course denies all responsbility and says contact ICANN

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Welcome to the Whois information page where you can find out what Whois is, why it is important, why there has been so much argument over it, and where the resolution process is at the moment.

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The following is the discussion held over RegisterFly at the ICANN Board meeting on Friday 31 March 2007.

RegisterFly was also the topic of discussion for an hour at the end of the Public Forum on Monday 26 March 2007. The public forum's full transcript is available here.

NB: This is an edited excerpt of the full meeting transcript, broken down according to each Board member and produced in an effort to provide easy access to the substantive discussion. For the Board meeting's full transcript click here.

The following discussion took place between ICANN Board members with regard to the .xxx domain in a public meeting in Lisbon, Portugal on Friday 30 March 2007:

Explanation: The Board voted on a resolution that rejected the .xxx application, so a vote "yes" meant saying "no" to the application. This is an edited excerpt of the full meeting transcript, broken down according to each Board member and produced in an effort to provide easy access to the substantive discussion. For the full transcript click here.

The following resolutions were passed by the ICANN Board on Friday 30 March 2007 in Lisbon.

The factions of the ruling Social Democrats (SPD) and Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) in the German Parliament have submitted the resolution "Advancement of the adress space in the Internet" (printed paper no. 16/4564; courtesy translation) to the plenary on March 7. In it, the federal government is called upon to support new developments in the Internet name space.

ICANN has changed the method by which it draws input into its public meetings - including the public forum - in an effort to make it easier to interact, and hence encourage greater interaction.

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For the ICANN public forum on Thursday 29 March 2007

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