Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

In response, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the nonprofit entity that manages the global domain name system — has proposed redacting key bits of personal data from WHOIS, the system for querying databases that store the registered users of domain names and ...

Special report On March 26 – two months before new privacy protections come into effect in Europe – Goran Marby, CEO of DNS overlord ICANN, sent a letter [PDF] to each of Europe's 28 data protection authorities (DPAs) asking them to hold off punishing it over Whois. Whois is a set of databases of ...

ICANN has been told for a second time that it must fundamentally change its Whois service to become compliant with Europe's incoming privacy law – and do so within the next month. At a meeting in Brussels this week with the European Union's data protection authorities (DPAs), the US-based DNS ...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Domain Name System (DNS), is completely unprepared for the new laws related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect in May, according to the European Union. ICANN manages ...

Almost three years ago, the global domain name authority ICANN chartered a working group to consider how to build a replacement for the WHOIS database, a publicly-accessible record of registered domain names. Because it includes the personal information of millions of domain name registrants with ...

The US government has waded into the omni-shambles that is the internet infrastructure industry's failed effort to comply with European privacy laws. Having tried to use its behind-the-scenes influence at a recent meeting of DNS overseer ICANN to drive decisions, the Department of Commerce's frustration ...

The Whois public database of domain name registration details is dead. In a letter [PDF] sent this week to DNS overseer ICANN, Europe's data protection authorities have effectively killed off the current service, noting that it breaks the law and so will be illegal come 25 May, when GDPR comes into force.

ICANN should be a boring organization but it hired people who want to make a difference. I visited ICANN's offices in California in 2008. That was well before ICANN's finances ballooned. There were fewer than 100 employees back then. I'd characterize ICANN in 2008 as boring. It was a small organization ...

Yesterday I reviewed the massive growth in ICANN's expenses over the past 9 years. Today I'll examine growth in headcount. ICANN records the total number of W-2 employees on its tax returns, but these numbers are based on calendar years instead of financial years. ICANN's financial year ends in June.

The GDPR may have some unintended consequences for WHOIS data and ICANN when it goes into effect on May 25. ... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a not-for-profit organization that coordinates the maintenance and procedures for the namespaces of the internet.

ICANN is in a bit of a budget crunch. Lower than expected revenues along with a re-evaluation of the required reserve fund (and tapping into it) are straining the organization. I have plenty of thoughts on how this happened and what to do about it, but I'm going to start with a series of charts showing the size ...

As the destination continues its recovery from Hurricanes Maria and Irma, Meet Puerto Rico, the organization responsible for attracting groups and conventions to Puerto Rico, reports it has successfully hosted the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 61 Community ...

GDPR is not the only hot topic at the ICANN 61 meeting in Puerto Rico. Discussion of ICANN's financial condition has taken up a significant fraction of the meeting time as well. It is no secret that ICANN is in a bit of a financial slump. The organization spent a ton of money on getting out from underneath U.S. ...

LOS ANGELES – The group overseeing internet addresses is scrambling to balance the privacy of website owners and the right to know who is behind online pages. The nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began a weeklong meeting Monday focused on the fate of the ...

Adobe, Facebook, Microsoft and eBay are among a group of leading companies demanding ICANN to take a closer look at an "immediate and urgent matter" involving a subset of questionable domain name registrars. Kevin Murphy of Domain Incite reports: "The ad hoc coalition, calling itself the ...

ICANN has consistently said its intention in complying with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is to comply while at the same time maintaining access to the WHOIS domain name registration database "to greatest extent possible." On February 28, ICANN published its ...

ICANN and the mobile network operators trade body, GSM Association (GSMA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Mobile World Congress being held this week in Barcelona. The MoU aims to enhance collaboration and raise awareness about Internet governance issues that are ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has presented several data models to its contracted parties regarding their contractual arrangements with ICANN and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). They have gathered and presented some of the legal analysis and ...