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The spirit of Frankfurt:
EURALO-pioneers gathered to strengthen the bottom up structure of ICANN
Frankfurt/Main, Germany, 28.05.06: At the first Preperatory Meeting for a European Regional At-Large Organisation (EURALO) which took place in Frankfurt at Sunday about 20 civil society representatives from Belgium, Luxembourg, Finland, Germany, Italy and Switzerland assembled, committed to start the pioneerwork of an […]

Have a look at these news!
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/frnotices/2006/NOI_DNS_Transition_0506.htm
Those who speak German may want to check out:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/73517

Finalizing the ICANN meeting in Wellington, the ICANN Board adopts a Strategic Plan.

“China adds top-level domain names”
That is the title of todays article by People’s Daily Online. It says:
China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has made adjustment to China’s Internet domain name system in accordance with Article 6 of China Internet Domain Names Regulations.
After the adjustment, “.MIL” will be added under the top-level domain (TLD) name of […]

http://www.wecann.net/ralowiki this is the new wiki which should help us to work on the following project:
Help to strengthen Civil Rights and Consumer Protection in ICANN’s policies!
The question of how Internet Governance is shaped is one of the central sociopolitical tasks of the coming years. It will be a matter of how consumers and Internet users […]

“The Villain in the ICANN-VeriSign Struggle is the U.S. Government”, that is the title of a very intersting article by Michael Roberts, posted on Feb. 20, 2006 in CircleID.
Roberts gives a nice overview on the history of outsourcing the assignment of Internet domain names from the Networking Division of the National Science Foundation to […]

Geneva. Today the Consultations on the Convening of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) started, which is going to take place in Greece, the 24th to the 26th October 2006. This meeting is result of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), where Internet Governance was identified as one of THE important issues of information […]

Dearest comrades and companions,
dear Sir or Madam,
the question of how Internet Governance is shaped is one of the central sociopolitical tasks of the coming years. It will be a matter of how consumers and Internet users can become involved in the policy making of ICANN.
We are all aware of how sorry the tale of direct […]

ICANN startet (wieder) eine Diskussion zur Einführung neuer generischer Top Level Domains (gTLDs).
Die erste Runde für “Kommentierungen” soll bereits bis am 9. Januar 2006 geschlossen werden.
Eure Kommentare könnt Ihr an folgende eMail-Adresse senden: new-gtlds-pdp-comments@icann.org.
Auf der Seite der Generic Names Supporting Organisation findet sich ein sogenannter “Issues Report” zu neuen gTLDs.
Eingereichte Stellungnahmen findet Ihr unter: http://forum.icann.org/lists/new-gtlds-pdp-comments
Aber […]

Das heutige Board-Meeting bildete den Abschluss des ICANN-Meetings in Vancouver.
In Reaktion auf die heftige Kritik zum geplanten Vertragsabschluss zwischen ICANN und VeriSign zu .com verständigte sich das Board auf eine Presseerklärung in der versichert wurde, dass der Vertrag noch nicht abgeschlossen sei und es noch bis zum 7. Dezember 2005 möglich sei, Anregungen und […]