Hold public update for domain owners — ICA to
Domain investor advocacy group will make its next member call public.
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a group that advocates for domain name owners, is holding a public webcast on Friday to update domain investors on policy issues. This is ICA’s first public call; previous updates have been for members only.
The webcast is scheduled for April 12 at 1 PM EDT. Registration is now open.
Among the topics ICA will cover:
- NTIA permitting Verisign to seek price increases from ICANN for .com
- ICANN’s failure to recognize the difference between the legacy domain extensions which were originally created by the US Government for the public benefit and the fresh gTLD extensions
- Potential unrestricted price increases for .org, .biz and .info
- ICANN staff independently pushing significant policies that were not approved by the ICANN community
- The move by the Australian .au Domain Administration to abolish domain investing in .au domains and to delete long-standing domain portfolios held by .au investors
- Whois information in the wake of GDPR
- Bad UDRP decisions
- The effort by trademark interests at ICANN to create a special “UDRP” for Intergovernmental Organizations
The webinar is structured as an update to the ICA’s membership from the Executive Director, Kamila Sekiewicz, and General Counsel, Zak Muscovitch, as well as the ICA’s Leadership Team.
“Since the issues at stake are of importance to the domain community at sizable, we are opening up the call so that everyone with an interest can watch and listen as well,” stated Sekiewicz.
