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The controversy over the .ss top-level domain
When South Sudan became the world’s newest country last July, it set about nation building. This included establishing a country-code top level domain (ccTLD), for which the nation wanted .ss. Although the SS string appeared on the International Standards Organisation’s ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code list in August, the forerunner to ICANN approval for a ccTLD, .ss is still not plugged into the internet. Read more ›
How do you protect registrants from the failure of a new gTLD registry?
Here in Dakar, delegates at ICANN 42 have been wrestling with this question. But, over four years and six editions of the Applicant Guidebook, ICANN has already developed an answer. The idea is for every new registry applicant to estimate the costs of “critical registry functions”, defined as: the maintenance of DNS resolution, a shared registry system, Whois, data escrow and maintaining a DNSSEC signed zone. Read more ›
How far should ICANN go in supporting the growth of the internet in developing economies?
Here in Dakar at the 42nd ICANN meeting (which I think is the 28th meeting that I have attended), I ponder this question as my air-conditioned coach sweeps past a refuse dump where small Senegalese children, a herd of goats and several mangy dogs scavenge. There is a proposal on the table for the ICANN board to reduce the fees for new gTLD applicants from developing economies from $185,000 to $47,000. Read more ›
Moving the goalposts: government involvement in domain name policy
As the face of the domain name industry continues to change, governments are getting more involved with domain name policy – and often moving the goalposts before registrants’ eyes. The examples I am going to discuss are .cn (China), .kz … Read more ›