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In follow up to the last ICANN meetings in Mexico City, CircleID in collaboration with the team from Dynamic Network Services, will be bringing you video blogs and updates from the 35th ICANN meetings in Sydney (21-26 Jun 2009). Stay tuned as we keep this page updated through out the meetings.

Updates posted in reverse chronological order.

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Update / Local Time: Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 12:25 PM — Graham Chynoweth, General Counsel, Dyn Inc. discusses latest developments between to domain name registrars and ICANN with Adam Eisner, Product Manager of Tucows Inc.

Update / Local Time: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM — Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO at Dyn Inc., discusses DNSSEC deployment and related workshop at the ICANN meeting with Russ Mundy of Sparta.

Update / Local Time: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:38 AM — Graham Chynoweth, General Counsel, Dyn Inc. discusses ICANN's domain name registrars constituancy with Mason Cole, VP of Oversee.net.

Update / Local Time: Friday, June 26, 2009 at 5:15 AM — Graham Chynoweth, General Counsel, Dyn Inc. discusses issues regarding geographic names and identifiers with Bertrand de LA CHAPELLE, Special Envoy for the Information Society, French Foreign and European Affairs Ministry.

Update / Local Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:50 AM — Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO at Dyn Inc., discusses Internet abuse with Rod Rasmussen, President and CTO of Internet Identity. Rasmussen is also co-chair of the Anti-Phishing Working Group's (APWG) Internet Policy Committee and serves as the APWG's Industry Liaison.

Update / Local Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:27 AM — Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO at Dyn Inc., discusses domain name registry and registrar separation with Alexa Raad, CEO of .ORG The Public Interest Registry and Brian Cute, VP of Afilias.

Update / Local Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 5:10 AM — Graham Chynoweth, General Counsel, Dyn Inc. discusses the new ICANN CEO with Par Stéphane VAN GELDER, General manager of INDOM.

Update / Local Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 1:48 AM — Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO at Dyn Inc., discusses DNSSEC with Lance Wolak, Director of Marketing & Product Management at .ORG The Public Interest Registry.

Update / Local Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 1:48 AM — Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO at Dyn Inc., discusses new Top-Level Domains and the effects of root DNS with Lyman Chapin, Interisle Consulting Group.

Update / Local Time: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM — Graham Chynoweth, General Counsel, Dyn Inc. discusses hot topics at ICANN 35 Sydney with Jean-Christophe Vignes, EVP & General Counsel, EuroDNS.

Update / Local Time: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM — Jeremy Hitchcock, CEO at Dyn Inc., discusses hot topics at ICANN 35 Sydney with Greg Aaron from Afilias.

Update / Local Time: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 5:51 AM — J. Scott Evans, Yahoo!'s Senior Legal Director, has a discussion with Gray Chynoweth, General Counsel from Dyn Inc.

Update / Local Time: Monday, June 22, 2009 at 4:30 PM — Gray Chynoweth writes: "At first blush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Globally Protected Marks List (GPML) do not seem to have anything in common. The first is a politician of debated repute that is seeking to quell disputes over the legitimacy of his election. The second is a recommendation that seeks to protect trademark owners and consumers from an explosion of infringement and source confusion that could be wrought by the introduction of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs). However, upon a closer analysis, they do share one common flaw: both have arguably failed to appropriately prioritize the right to free speech." Read More...

Update / Local Time: Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 10:08 AM — Philip Corwin, Counsel, Internet Commerce Association, has a discussion with Gray Chynoweth, General Counsel from Dyn Inc.

Update / Local Time: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 6:38 AM — Jeremy Hitchcock (CEO, Dyn Inc.) and Gray Chynoweth (General Counsel, Dyn Inc.) preview ICANN 35 in Sydney. The video is part of Dyn Inc.'s continuing effort effort to improve ICANN transparency by video blogging from ICANN meetings.

Update / Local Time: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 6:05 AM — Jeremy Hitchcock writes: "As I've been getting ready to catch my plane for ICANN 35 (Sydney), I can't help but thinking that there are a lot of things going down these days that will dramatically affect makeup of the Internet for years to come. Next year at this time, the root could be a very, very different place. A few of the items that will be getting deconstructed, discussed, debated Down Under are outlined below." Read More...

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