It has been mostly silent since its Assistant Secretary stepped down last year. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the U.S. government agency that cares about domain names. It manages the contract for .us ... Continue Reading1 Comment
David Redl resigns from NTIA
· Policy & LawMan who gave green light to .com price increases is moving on. David Redl has abruptly resigned from his post as Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Who wins, who loses from Trump Admin decision on domain names
· Policy & LawVerisign is the big winner as consumers face higher bills for .com domain names. The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has extended the Cooperative Agreement between it and Verisign ... Continue Reading17 Comments
U.S. Government follows up on “cooling off period” idea for ICANN employees
· Policy & LawNTIA chief wants ICANN to restrict post-ICANN employment. Following up on remarks made during ICANN 63 in Barcelona last week, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) head David Redl sent a letter to ICANN Friday criticizing ... Continue Reading5 Comments
NTIA chief takes jab at Donuts hiring Atallah
· Policy & LawRedl suggests cooling off period between ICANN employment and working for domain companies. David Redl, who heads the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, took an apparent jab at the outgoing President of ICANN's Global ... Continue Reading2 Comments
NTIA head: No Whois is “unmitigated victory for the spammers and scammers”
· Policy & LawRedl says U.S. government continues to fight for access to Whois information. This morning at the Internet Governance Forum in Washington, D.C., NTIA Assistant Secretary David Redl spoke about the impact of the EU's GDPR on Whois. He said the lack ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Latest U.S. Government statement on GDPR and Whois
· Policy & LawGovernment is looking into Article 49 exceptions of GDPR. David Redl, who runs the U.S. government's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has repeatedly spoken against GDPR's potential effects on Whois. Yesterday, at a ... Continue Reading2 Comments
U.S. government asks ICANN to investigate GoDaddy’s Whois policy
· Policy & LawU.S. gov weighs in on GoDaddy's Whois policy. The U.S. government has sent a letter to ICANN asking it to review GoDaddy's (NYSE: GDDY) activities around blocking access to Whois records. David Redl, who heads the National Telecommunications and ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Redl discusses Whois availability at ICANN 61
· Policy & LawHead of NTIA reiterates United States' position on Whois data. At ICANN 61 in Puerto Rico today, NTIA chief David Redl again called for restraint in changes made to Whois. Redl and the U.S. government are concerned about the effect that limiting ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Redl groups “Right to be Forgotten” with other censorship, calls it “regrettable”
· Policy & LawGovernments should not try to apply local laws to the borderless internet, Redl says. David Redl, the head of the U.S. government's NTIA, has criticized countries that are trying to apply local laws to the control internet. In comments made to the ... Continue Reading2 Comments