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Participation at meetings
There is an ongoing issue about how to have real and effective remote participation at ICANN meetings.
As most of you will hopefully be aware, a specific website is set up for each meeting - you can see Delhi's here: http://del.icann.org/, and Paris' at http://par.icann.org - where a webpage is provided for every meeting. That webpage contains its own chatroom; it contains the agenda, links to presentations , and, when over, a link to the transcript.
However there is still a disconnect and an advantage if you are physically in the room. As an Internet organisation trying to serve a global audience with limited resources, ICANN wants to get to the point where participation is real and possible remotely.
Add your ideas, have a discussion, review what others think at this dedicated forum to improving remote participation.
The biggest issue from experience is time. Meetings start and go extremely quickly from the perspective of someone not in the room. Often meetings happen at inappropriate times for those that wish to attend. Sometimes by the time a question raised remotely can be introduced into the conversation, the conversation has moved on. And this in itself discourages interaction.
So the question is: what can be done to fix this? Is the answer to make sure agendas are posted earlier? How can this be enforced? Should questions be accepted ahead of time? Should meetings on one topic be stretched over several days, allowing for more effective remote input?
What are the practicalities? How do you get the physical meeting to take remote input seriously? What needs to be done? ICANN is very interested in your views on this. And for that reason we have set up a forum on this site in order to help the community discuss, review, brainstorm and formulate possible solutions which ICANN will then experiment with in an effort to provide the global community with a more effective route into the organisation's work.
Add your ideas, have a discussion, review what others think at this dedicated forum to improving remote participation.
What are we doing about the rampant Porn industry?
The Internet is a place that we send our children to look up information for school. What are we doing about the rampant Porn industry with free peeks that leave nothing to the imagination?
Urdu Language - Domain naming convention
I have gone through the ICANN.org website and activities but could not found any activity or proposal for Urdu Language naming convention and translation of Domain Names.
There should be some planning and procedure in this regards.
Imran Ahmed Shah
legal for registrars to speculate and reserve domain names?
I had an odd thing happen yesterday... I queryied the networksolutions.com WHOIS database to check on availability of a specific domain for a client; it was availabe.
Today the client asked me to go ahead and register the domain, but lo and behold, networksolutions.com has registered it, and there is no associated website. Is this coincidence? Did they use my query to automatically 'taste' the domain on the odds that i would be trying to register it and force me to BUY it from them?
How about dot whocares?
ICANN Administration is working on an outdated premise: that there exists a major demand for new internet categorizations and domain name endings. This premise is built on the antiquated notions of the 1999-2000 era, where there was a great sense of urgency to create more name endings. This era was just before the dot com "bust"; where an overabundance of speculation in .com domain name endings led to an artificial inflation of the market (much like the US housing market today).
onlinenic.com! what happened?!!!
Dear ICANN manager
We are member of UN-WSIS .Some of our domain is down. please help us.we bought them to parsagostar Co in Iran.Parsagostar register them on the http://www.onlinenic.com .we try to contact onlinenic but they didnt response us.Why our Domains are Down? We try to promote Democrasy in Iran with develope IT..This is our website in English.They have very bad support.
http://www.arianous.com/default.aspx?lang=En
and this is our director website:
www.modirian.net
our domains are :
http://www.bheia.com/
http://www.araz-edu.org/
http://arkdarya.com/
http://maunara.com/
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Registrar Hijacking of Expired Domain Names
By changing the Registered Name Holder's contact information, registrars are able to stifle any effort by the public to contact a registrant about their expiring domain name - preventing registrant from benefiting from the sale of rights to the domain name. And that's just the beginning! Learn more here:
End of Summer Time in Europe and Remote Participation
Europe moved from summer time to winter time last night but the California won't do so until next weekend. This means that for the week of the ICANN meeting the time difference between Europe and the US is different than normal.
Anyone who wants to follow the sessions at this week's meeting will need to take account of the difference in the normal time calculations this week.
On Monday at 9am in Los Angeles it will be 5pm in Brussels and 4pm in Lisbon which is one hour earlier than last week.
A Tale of TWO CITIES - TWO organisations
A Tale of TWO CITIES? TWO ORGANISATIONS?
Problem: Someone or somehow our domain names are hijacked and transferred without our permission to another registrar and we lose control and ownership!
CITY ONE: ICANN
Issue:
1. Losing Registrar does not want to know! Nothing to do with us GOV! (UK expression).
2. New Registrar says he can't do anything unless a Dispute Transfer is initiated by the Losing Registrar who of course denies all responsbility and says contact ICANN
