ICANN participation

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?

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

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?

ICANN Administration is working on an outdated premise: that there exists a major demand for new internet categorizations and domain name endings.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).

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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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?

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