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ICANN renewed the messenger after the message missed Seville
Sebastien Ducos gets another two years between ICANN's policy council and government advisers. His own report explains why that corridor needs more than a calendar invitation.
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ICANN maps appeals for local-script domains. The review desk is still being built
The Board has approved an IDN country-code rulebook that points certain disputes toward a dedicated review route. That route still needs implementation and a Bylaws decision.
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Four chairs, three required: ICANN gives its complaint desk a thin bench
ICANN's new accountability committee has four voting directors. Its charter needs three for a quorum. One empty chair is the entire cushion.
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ICANN appoints a new chair to review its reviews. The pile is waiting
Miriam Sapiro takes the organizational-review chair as a second draft, another public hearing and a November work list wait on the table.
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ICANN priced for 1,000 applications. About 1,600 came through the door
The new domain round brought in roughly $110 million for implementation work priced to cost $70 million. ICANN expects to send the excess back. The receipt is going to need several columns.
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ICANN moves its audit chair to risk. The old risk chair stays
Catherine Adeya takes the Risk Committee gavel from Wes Hardaker, who remains at the table. A risk register, tolerance work and an audit plan sit in the handover folder.
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ICANN approves the back-office bill. The price tag is a black bar
The Board cleared an enterprise software renewal while hiding both the supplier and the spending ceiling in its public resolution.
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Australia opens a domain-name tip line. The tip sheets stay in the drawer
With more than 1,600 new internet suffix applications on the table, Canberra wants the public to flag trouble before it decides which names deserve a government warning.
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ICANN approved the IDN rulebook. Uppercase lookalikes lost their special hearing
The Board kept the new country-code policy moving and struck out one proposed escape hatch for names that collide only when written in capitals.
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ICANN signs the $20m transfer; the spending file stays shut
The Board has put last year’s operating surplus into its Project Fund. A project still needs its own vote.
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Twenty votes, zero dissent: ICANN’s accent policy reaches the Board’s desk
The GNSO Council gave a unanimous push to 57 Latin-script diacritics outputs. The next signature belongs to a different room.
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ICANN’s Public-Interest Objectors Need the Public to Knock First
ICANN has hired three people to challenge new gTLD applications in the public interest. The rulebook gives the public the first move: an opposing comment must be on the record before an Independent Objector can file.
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ICANN hired three people to object for the public. First, the public must speak
The new gTLD round has its independent referees. Their whistle has a surprising trigger: somebody else has to raise a hand in public first.
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PTI fills two board seats through 2029. Only one has a term cap
ICANN has seated a NomCom pick and renewed its own finance chief on the board that oversees IANA services. Their clocks stop in the same year; the rules for another turn around the table do not.
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ICANN gives its new vice-chair the finance gavel, too
Sajid Rahman now holds the Board’s deputy chair and the Finance Committee chair. The most revealing line in ICANN’s new seating plan is the one that calls this an appointment with no direct fiscal impact.
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Three ICANN websites went dark. Its application systems did not.
A critical PHP alert took three public sites offline. The systems handling new gTLD applications and published results kept running, and ICANN restored the sites after testing the patch.
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The RIR rulebook reaches ICANN with four gates still ahead
The NRO Executive Council has handed the draft rulebook for recognizing and, when necessary, derecognizing regional Internet registries to ICANN. ARIN’s meeting slides put the document on ICANN’s desk and list four remaining kinds of work. The next fight is over who edits the…
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ICANN authorized a software deal. The public got three black bars.
The Board cleared an enterprise software contract while hiding the supplier, contract form and spending ceiling. Its finance committee had asked for clearer price arithmetic. A system built to improve internal controls now comes with a public accounting question of its own.
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ICANN moves $20 million into its Project Fund, with spending decisions still ahead
ICANN’s Board has turned a forecast surplus into a specific fund transfer. The money is now authorized to move out of daily operations, but the resolution names no project that may spend it.
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ICANN adopts the IDN country-code plan but closes one risk-appraisal route
An applicant whose proposed country-code domain resembles another name only when capitalised has lost a proposed way to argue for an exception. ICANN’s Board approved the broader IDN ccTLD policy, then withheld that narrow escape route over security concerns.
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