Home / News

ICANN Wants to Update Its Domain Name Registrar Accreditation Process

ICANN is seeking public input as it intends to revise its domain name registrar accreditation process. Changes include further protection of domain owner privacy.

Dr. Paul Twomey, ICANN’s CEO and President says: "The need for this review is clear. The current RAA [Registrar Accreditation Agreement] is more than six years old. We've seen the number of accredited registrars grow to more than 900. And we've seen the incredible difficulties that can be unleashed with the collapse of a Registrar"—referring to the RegisterFly debacle.

Read full story: Computerworld

Related topics: DNS, Domain Names, Policy & Regulation, Privacy

Get a weekly summary of postings to CircleID:

 Master Feed (more feeds)      Twitter      Mobile
Bookmark / Email This Post

Comments

Re: ICANN Wants to Update Its Domain Name Registrar Accreditation Process Larry Seltzer  –  Jul 30, 2007 7:36 PM PDT

I'd like to grumble about how they should have thought of this stuff when they made this mess several years ago, but better late than never. They do look like good questions to ask.

To post comments, please login or create an account.

Related Blogs

Related News

Industry Updates – Sponsored Posts

Latest Brandjacking Index Examines How Fraudsters Abuse Financial Brands

NeuStar Addresses DNS Vulnerability with Cache Defender, a Secure DNS Authentication System

NeuStar Celebrates 10 Years of UltraDNS Managed DNS Service

A Seemingly Overwhelming Number of Important Documents Released by ICANN

.ORG First Open Top-Level Domain to be Signed with DNSSEC

DNSSEC Industry Coalition Symposium is Announced

dotMobi Names AutoTrader.mobi as Millionth Site Tested by Acclaimed mobiReady Tool

NeuStar's UltraDNS to Power Growth of NDTV Convergence

SPIL GAMES Chooses MarkMonitor for Global Domain Management

Mobile Banking Benchmarks Now Available

Facebook Selects MarkMonitor Antifraud Solutions to Combat Malware

Perspectives from a Nonprofit Domain Name Registry on Navigating the Social Media Frontier

Flawed Economic Analysis of New gTLDs

Benchmarks that Measure Five Critical Dimensions of Success for Mobile Websites

IP Rights in Digital Environment Key Element of Proposed Treaty

MarkMonitor AntiFraud Solutions, Combining Proven Antiphishing and Expert Antimalware Capabilities

Go Daddy Launches Instant Mobilizer from dotMobi

New Study of Mobile Web Trends Demonstrates Strong Growth of Mobile Content Availability

Identify Infringing Domains to Optimize Online Search Marketing Spend

dotMobi Announces Launch of First Two-Letter Mobile Domain by Nevada Commission on Tourism