Board passes resolution that might delay certain new TLDs and approves a new UDRP provider.
While most of us were hanging with our families or on the golf course this weekend, ICANN’s board was approving a number of resolutions that could have a big affect on some parts of the domain name industry. Here’s what the board decided:
Some new TLDs may be delayed or rejected based on internal name conflicts. ICANN is going to further investigate the potential for security issues related to certain applied-for new TLDs and internally use domains such as .home. I would expect, at minimum, a delay on certain domain names.
There’s a new UDRP provider. Add Arab Center for Dispute Resolution to the list of approved UDRP providers. No, they won’t have to sign a contract, which means they’ll have some flexibility in changing their supplemental rules. Czech Arbitration Court, for example, adjusted its supplemental rules to allow a low cost UDRP option.
Approval of the FY 2014 budget will be late. ICANN’s 2014 fiscal year begins in June, but the budget won’t be approved until the July meeting in Durban. There’s also an open comment period for the fiscal plan right now. As a result, ICANN will go ahead with the proposed budget come June 1, and then approve it later.
Pack your bags for Los Angeles. The third ICANN meeting of 2014 will be October 12-16 in Los Angeles, where ICANN’s headquarters are located. (TRAFFIC organizers should take note when planning their fall conference next year.)
Fadi got his bonus, and something else happened… New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade will get his second trimester of FY13 at-risk bonus. The board also approved a confidential resolution related to “personnel or employment matters”.
1809 says
WTF?
Why should there be ANY “confidential resolutions”? I thought they were a non-profit that is working for the public? Does that not require 100% full disclosure?
Here comes a sh*t storm with the new Arab UDRP provider….LOL. Good luck!
I’ll be firing off a Federal lawsuit if any of my domains ever head towards the Middle East. I don’t trust the Middle East, China, Russia, any of those corrupt areas of the world. I barely trust the U.S. to be fair, but it is better than those places.
Mike says
Regarding the ACDR being appointed as a UDRP provider . I note that Nasser Ali Khasawneh is listed as a “Panelist” located in Jordan, yet on his WIPO profile (I was a victim of his) he list as being from UK . Does this person live everywhere, or is there some motive ?.
John Berryhill says
@Mike, I can top that:
Mohamed Abdulkader “PhD in Law. Delaware.”
There is no such degree, and no such school.
Prior to being acquired by Widener University, there was a Delaware Law school, but it hasn’t existed since 1989. Widener University School of Law grants a JD. There is no “PhD in Law”.
You can tell ICANN did their usual thorough vetting of a provider who posts fake academic credentials.
Kassey says
“internally use domains such as .home”
Can someone explain to me what it means? Who is using .home internally?
Theobroma Cacao says
Hard to say, but a really astonishing number of queries for .HOME (and .INTERNAL and .CORP and pretty much anything you can think of) are hitting the root name servers. Probably a bit of it is misconfiguration of firewalls or people having using a domain search list where they shouldn’t. To see some statistics, see:
http://dns.icann.org/cgi-bin/dsc-grapher.pl?window=86400&plot=qtype_vs_invalid_tld&server=L-root
(it’ll take a while for the graph to show up, be patient)