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Beckstrom to keynote London new gTLDs conference

Kevin Murphy, December 12, 2011, Domain Registries

ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom will address a half-day conference on new generic top-level domains in London next month, just a few days before ICANN’s application window opens.
The Top Level, scheduled for January 9, is being hosted by Norwegian registry services provder CloudNames, the PR agency Burson-Marsteller and international law firm DLA Piper.
Each company also has an executive speaking, and then there’s a panel discussion.
Although BM is on ICANN’s payroll, having been recently named the recipient of a $900,000 outreach budget, it appears that the conference is not an ICANN initiative.
Tickets for the five-hour event are being sold for €490, or €441 for “early bird” registrations.
It will be presumably one of the last conferences Beckstrom will keynote on his world tour before ICANN starts accepting new gTLD applications, January 12.

Recent Comments

Rubens Kuhl: JVs were and will be allowed pre-application as well, like what did .sas (JV between software compan
Kevin Murphy: In this case it seems the JV was formed years ago and the gTLD has not yet been delegated.
Elaine Pruis: JV's are only prohibited during the application evaluation process. ROs will be free to make busines
Steve GOBIN: Congratulations to Bruce! He had an excellent reputation as a board member of ICANN, whereas AUDA h
John Berryhill: With the ban on forming joint ventures, this sort of resolution of an intractable conflict will not
Kevin Murphy: Based on my incomplete research, I think .xxx makes more money from registrations than it does from
Helmuts: hmm.. this is an interesting thought.. yes, it would be interesting to see these numbers.
John Berryhill: I failed to note that if the idea is that one can switch to the "second choice" on the condition tha
John Berryhill: "The Board views the ability to submit an alternate string at the time of application as a path to
John Berryhill: "How difficult is it to choose friendly, tolerant and peaceful countries?" It is apparently becom
John Berryhill: It would still be interesting to know whether, on balance, .xxx generates more revenue from domain r
Matthias Pfeifer: Well, this wouldn't solve the problem which string a applicant prefer - this doesn't prevent the com
Jovenet Consulting: I find this is genius from the ICANN text : "Ability to submit alternate strings: Applicants should
Helmuts: ICANN meetings should not be organized in such countries. Period. How difficult is it to choose frie
Andrew: Also another place women probably won't feel welcome
Richard Funden: I am much more worried about their stance on freedom from religion: "It is a criminal offense to �
Rubens Kuhl: Not really. The 5% per month root zone increase quickly adds up to much more than 500 per year, so t
Phil Buckingham: Intriguing .... . Academic Really . Simple maths. So the max delegation rate into the Root Zone pe
Rubens Kuhl: While ICANN requires standardized WHOIS URLs such as whois.nic.mobi, there was nothing preventing wh
Rubens Kuhl: That draft text doesn't comply the SubPro report and doesn't comply with board adoption of that reco
Steve GOBIN: Maybe one of the persons that was recently laid off ;-)
Volker Greimann: Ideally not only OFAC, but also other organizations, such as the EU... I think ICANN has an importa
John Berryhill: If someone really wants to really cripple the Russian air travel industry, then *require* them to us
R. Funden: OR, ... - and hear me out on this, ... OR, Russia could just call this entire misadventure off and
Rubens Kuhl: ICANN will always have to be incorporated in one jurisdiction or another; but if some jurisdiction o
Tom Barrett: There is another simpler way this issue can be resolved. ICANN could engage with OFAC to explicit
Ukraine: What is ICANN waiting for to 🦵 terrorist state russia from using domains. Congratulations to .aer
Dan: They already have -> IANA #1330 Microsoft Corporation Also a registrar is not the same as a re
Dan: Oh, if only that was true. Just have to look at your average phishing email... a lot of people f
Joe: Dumbest propaganda ever. They are thinking that people are dumb as they. Nobody visits their fake si
Kevin Murphy: Correlation does not equal causation.
Rubens Kuhl: From the complaint linked at https://domainincite.com/30131-frat-boy-culture-icann-faces-more-sexual
Rubens Kuhl: I thought hyphenated domains were scam...
shop.web-designs.net: Www.office looking like a typo without dotcom New gtlds are really scam tlds Microsoft should cr
juan: lol they froze registrations for a minute pending discussion with the partner but it's live again no
Ryan: That the ICA is talking to the NTIA directly is pretty huge. Hopefully that means the NTIA is serio
Mr. Tate: Yes. I've bought it. Get fucked.
Rubens Kuhl: What are you calling current gTLD Application Guidebook ? The one we have right now is 12 years old.
Kevin Murphy: The rules have not yet been adopted and the language being drafted is for recommendations that would
Chessur: Boo this man!! xD PDFs located here seem to indicate such rule changes were not adopted by ICANN:
John Berryhill: Tipping them off is not fair. You may have deprived us of future entertainment here.
Kevin Murphy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
Rubens Kuhl: .farms bought the farm
Steve GOBIN: The following article has just been posted:https://domainnamewire.com/2024/08/15/former-employee-sue
Rubens Kuhl: More from Verisign in this topic: https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/myths-vs-facts-about-dot-c
Midnight Cowboy: Could not agree more, very much a restrictive practice and should be outlawed, plus their enforced p
Jeff Neuman: I have known Ambassador Sapiro for many years beginning when she was at VeriSign. After leaving Ver
Rubens Kuhl: Nothing is free, but they are both components of the TCO of having an online presence. Registrars an
Richard Funden: 'If you add registration plus hosting package...", because hosting is free, right?
Dan: Bonkers strategy.. could have setup an ICANN registrar for less than $50K and not had to fight again