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This is an update on the termination of RegistrFly as an ICANN accredited registrar.As was previously advised ICANN sent a notice of termination to RegisterFly effective 31 March 2007. Under the agreement RegisterFly can initiate arbitration challenging the termination. RegisterFly has decided to do that and has notified ICANN. That means the termination has to be stayed by at least an additional thirty days. Consequently there will be no bulk transfer to another Accredited registrar until further notice. This clearly does not help registrants. It is another example of RegisterFly putting its own interests ahead of its customers.

ICANN is committed to pursuing RegisterFly under the terms of the Agreement.

ICANN has filed suit in Federal Court in the Central District of California to require RegisterFly to turn over all registrant data and to require them to provide updates every 48 hours and open up their books for audit. This will assist in making sure the data is accurate when a bulk transfer does occur or if the data is otherwise not available from the operators of RegisterFly. ICANN. RegisterFly is still required to assist registrants who want to transfer to another Registrar. ICANN will provide more updates as information becomes available.

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The U.S.-based Internet governing body rejected a proposal on Friday to create an adults-only zone on the internet, or a .XXX domain.

Supporters of an .XXX domain argued it would make it easier to confine sex sites and filter them out. Opponents argued it would make pornography on the Internet easier to find.

The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Internet’s domain-name address system, decided to reject the application for .XXX sites at a meeting in Portugal.

“This decision was the result of very careful scrutiny and consideration of all the arguments,” Dr Vinton Cerf, chairman of ICANN, said in a statement on the group’s Web site.

“That consideration had led a majority of the board to believe that the proposal should be rejected.”

The anticipated rejection of the .XXX domain had prompted the European Union to accuse the United States of political interference in the Web’s governance because ICANN currently reports to the U.S. Commerce Department.

“One of our board members said today in our meeting, and I’ll quote him, that this decision wasn’t a behind-the-scenes government move,” Serf told journalists in Lisbon.

“This issue had an enormously long debate, it’s been on the table since 2000 and today we decided to reject it. I personally voted against the proposal.”

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GoDaddy has once AGAIN dropped their prices and are down to $0.99 for all .info domains!

A second chance for those who missed this. Just been checking a couple of domains at GoDaddy and at first i noticed the price of .INFO domains was down to $1.70 from $1.99, however within about five minutes of this they are now down to $0.99! (+0.25 ICANN fee) .

SALE! - $0.99/yr

There’s no better way to get your information on the ‘Net than with your own .INFO domain. And there’s no better time than now! “Info” means information to speakers of many different languages around the world. So whether you want to promote information about your business, your organization or simply yourself, .INFO is a great way to create an identity on the Web.

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Google yesterday (14 Dec ‘06) anounced that Google has partnered with GoDaddy.com and eNom, two leading domain registration services, to offer domains for $10 per year which includes private registration to protect your personal information.

Now you’ve got one-stop shopping for all the services currently on the Google Apps for Your Domain platform — just find a domain, buy it, and get started. We’ll do all the behind-the-scenes configuration work for you. For now this is available for .com, .net,.org, .biz, and .info domains, but we’re working on bringing it elsewhere soon.

I believe the domain is actually provided by the two registrars eNom and Godaddy , I wonder why Google didn’t offer registration itself, its been an ICANN accredited registrar for almost 2 years now.
If you look carefully into it, its nothing but addtion of domain regitration process through Google instead of other registrars to its exisiting Google Apps service.

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After the last agreement ICANN and DotAsia Organization, the sponsoring organization for the .ASIA top-level domain, announced the signing of the .ASIA Registry Agreement on 6 December 2006 at the ICANN Annual Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. On 18 October 2006, the ICANN Board approved the designation of the .ASIA sponsored top-level domain and authorized the President to implement the Agreement. With the addition of .asia, 266 domain names now exist on the Internet. DotAsia is the first gTLD registry with a headquarters in the Asia-Pacific region.

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sTLD Agreement with .ASIA (DotAsia Organisation Limited)

Whereas, on 4 December 5, 2005, the board authorized the President and General Counsel to enter into negotiations relating to proposed commercial and technical terms for the .ASIA sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) with the applicant, DotAsia Organisation Limited,

Whereas, on 18 July, 2006, ICANN announced that negotiations with the applicant for the .ASIA sponsored top-level domain had been successfully completed, and posted the proposed .ASIA sponsored TLD registry agreement on the ICANN website,

Whereas, the Board has determined that approval of the agreement, and delegation of a .ASIA sponsored top-level domain to DotAsia Organisation Limited would be beneficial for ICANN and the Internet community,

Resolved (06.___), the proposed agreement with DotAsia Organisation Limited concerning the .ASIA sTLD is approved, and the President is authorized to take such actions as appropriate to implement the agreement.

http://www.icann.org/minutes/resolutions-18oct06.htm

The registry managing it will be DotAsia
http://www.dotasia.org/

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ICANN has implemented a new policy that allows registries to submit proposed new services or changes to existing services without waiting for their contract renewal.ICANN announces the implementation of the process for review of new gTLD Registry Services and adoption of the Registry Services Evaluation Process. The effective date of the Policy is 15 August 2006. The implementation of this process includes an online tool through which gTLD registry operators and registry sponsoring organizations will be able to submit their requests for new registry services to ICANN.

The Process and its implementation have been developed in particular to:

• support a timely, efficient, and open process for the evaluation of new registry services,
• a technical panel that may review the effect of a proposed registry service on security and stability,
• a process by which competition issues can be verified
• encourage transparency and communication between registry operators or registry sponsoring organizations and ICANN staff before requests for new registry services and contractual changes are submitted as formal proposals to ICANN.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/rsep-advisory-25jul06.htm

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