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4 days ago | domainincite.com | Kevin Murphy

ICANN’s mighty overlord flexes on transparency ICANN is heading into uncharted waters after a key community group flexed its powers to hold the Org accountable for a recent board decision. The At-Large Advisory Committee has become the first of ICANN’s overseers to push for a formal objection to ICANN’s decision to delay its next large-scale accountability review.

4 days ago | domainincite.com | Kevin Murphy

ICANN faces first pushback over DEI U-turn ICANN’s decision to remove the words “diversity” and “inclusion” from its web site has prompted the first public, angry response from a community organization. The Asia-Pacific Regional At-Large Organization, APRALO, one of the five regional groups making up the At-Large Community, wrote to ICANN’s top brass to say that “diversity, equity and inclusion” should be part of ICANN’s DNA.

1 week ago | domainincite.com | Kevin Murphy

Loads of firms flunk out of next-round gTLD back-end program A surprising number of would-be back-end registry service providers have already been eliminated from ICANN’s Registry Service Provider Evaluation Program for not submitting their applications in time. Program statistics for May recently published reveal that 19 potential RSPs were in the system but failed to submit their required information before the application window closed May 20.

1 week ago | domainincite.com | Kevin Murphy

presidenttrump.xxx among thousands of dead .xxx domains suddenly springing to life Celebrities, politicians, tech bros, and hundreds of household brands are among the registrants of roughly 30,000 dormant .xxx domains that have suddenly awoke and found themselves live on the internet.

1 week ago | domainincite.com | Kevin Murphy

One of the dumbest gTLDs just switched back-ends Why does .blockbuster still exist, seriously? Old-timers such as your humble correspondent will recall Blockbuster as the once world-conquering video rental chain that spectacularly failed to adapt to adapt to the era of Netflix and streaming and went almost completely out of business. I say almost because, as was widely reported a few years back, there’s still one branch of Blockbuster open.