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16 unusual facts about ICANN


.irish

The rights to run the domain was applied for in June 2012 by Dot-Irish LLC, a for profit company in California, USA, as part of an expansion of generic top-level domains by ICANN.

Adrian Kinderis

Adrian also sits on the Council of ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organisation, as a respresentative of the Registrar's Constituency.

Audri Mukhopadhyay

From 2002 to 2003, he was the Canadian government's representative to ICANN.

Bevil Wooding

Wooding was one of seven people in the world entrusted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) with a special cryptographicsmart-card’ that holds part of a key used to generate the Domain Name Server Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol that protects Internet domain names.

David R. Johnson

In the early 2000s, along with Post, Johnson was active in the re-organization of ICANN - penning several critical papers with Susan P. Crawford.

ICANN

On March 18, 2002, publicly elected At-Large Representative for North America board member Karl Auerbach sued ICANN in Superior Court in California to gain access to ICANN's accounting records without restriction.

INRegistry

UDRP - Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy suggested by ICANN

Jean Armour Polly

She has served on the Internet Society Board of Trustees (1993–1996) and on the ICANN At-Large Advisory Council (ALAC) (2004–2006), as well as on the board of ICRA.

Michael Aston

In September, 2002, ICANN awarded Michael the www.genelovesjezebel.com domain name.

Name.com

Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman claimed that the registrars were taking advantage of their special status with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), to secure misspelled domains during the five-day grace period, and paying only for the ones with valuable revenue.

Paul Twomey

Paul Twomey was the Chief Executive Officer and President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from March 2003 to June 2009.

On 27 March 2003 he was elected to the position of CEO at ICANN.

Peter Dengate Thrush

In November 2007 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of ICANN, taking over the role from Vint Cerf.

Phil Lodico

In June 2009, he appeared as the featured speaker on the Trademark Track Panel at the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association’s (LAIPLA) Spring Seminar, where he addressed various domain name issues including ICANN and the proposed introduction of new gTLDs.

Registry.Africa

ZA Central Registry (ZACR) trading as Registry.Africa is an applicant for the .africa geoTLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.

Tarek Kamel

In August 2012 ICANN appointed Kamel to serve as a senior advisor to its president, making him the first national of a developing country to fill one of ICANN's senior management posts.


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Domain Name System

To make this possible, ICANN approved the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) system, by which user applications, such as web browsers, map Unicode strings into the valid DNS character set using Punycode.

Fadi Chehadé

Fadi Chehadé (Arabic: فادي شحاتة) (born 1962) is an information technology executive, founder of RosettaNet and current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ICANN.

John R. Levine

He chaired the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), is president of CAUCE (the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), was a member of the ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) At-Large Advisory Committee, and runs Taughannock Networks.

Rape pornography

Policing is made difficult by rape pornography websites operating anonymously, flouting ICANN regulations and providing false information for the Whois database.

Register.com v. Verio

Register.com is a World Wide Web domain name registrar, appointed by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

Reseller

For example, this occurs where individuals or companies act as agents for ICANN accredited registrars.

TzNIC

In accordance with ISO-3166 standards, the ccTLD was registered through IANA and ICANN.