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Home 29 Dec 2005 Time to renew .coop, .museum, and .aero ICANN Way back in 2000-2001, ICANN approved a handful of new top level domains, and entered into agreements with their promoters. Three of the sponsored domains, are coming up for renewal next year, so they've sent in their renewal proposals. A sponsored domain is one that restricts who can register to members of a particular community, in this case respectively co-ops, museums, and the airline industry. Let's take a look and see how they're doing. See more ... posted at: 19:14 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/stldrenew.trackback FTC says CAN SPAM is working. Are they kidding? Email In the CAN SPAM act, the Congress told the FTC to report back and tell them how it was working. Last week, the FTC sent out a press release about some anti-spam projects they're doing with the states and the Canadian competition bureau and mentioned, oh, by the way, we released this report, which says that CAN SPAM is working pretty well. I certainly haven't seen any drop in the amount of spam showing up at my mail server. Has the FTC lost their minds? Nope, but this reminds me that CAN SPAM was intended to do many things, but stop spam was not one of them. See more ... posted at: 15:45 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/ftcreport.trackback 25 Dec 2005 Seasons Xmas We're taking a few days off for the holiday. Until then, we wish a joyous holiday season to our readers in the religious and/or cultural mode(s) you may choose to embrace, and we'll be back next week. The Queen's Annual Message to the Commonwealth is well worth reading, whether or not you're a Commonwealth citizen (we're not) for its heartfelt thoughts about what Christmas means at the end of this difficult year. posted at: 00:01 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/xmas05.trackback 12 Dec 2005 Ed Hasbrouck makes the ICANN board follow its rules ICANN Ed is a travel journalist who's been writing about travel in general and online travel in particular for many years. Two years ago he challenged ICANN's delegation of .TRAVEL, the board ignored him, and he's been pestering them ever since. See more ... posted at: 01:24 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/edirp.trackback 02 Dec 2005 Notes on the ICANN ALAC meeting with the board ICANN For the first time in the ALAC's history, it had a short joint meeting with the ICANN board of directors. The meeting was open, and Bret Fausett has a podcast of the meeting available. We spent most of the hour discussing the contentious Verisign settlement proposal, and the statement that the ALAC made, commenting on the proposal. See more ... posted at: 13:01 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/alacboard.trackback

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