ICANN Announcements

ICANN Announces Regional Outreach Meeting 1-3 April 2008 in Dubai, UAE

ICANN is holding the second of two regional outreach meetings planned for FY07-08. The first meeting of these meetings was held in Taipei 19-21 October 2007.

This second regional meeting will be held in Dubai from 1 to 3 April 2008 in Dubai. The meeting is for policy makers, managers of country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and Internet businesses in this region. The agenda for the meeting is designed to address three main themes: a broad introduction to the ICANN multi-stakeholder model; challenges and opportunities in the registry and registrar businesses; and an introduction and discussion of internationalized domain names. ICANN staff is coordinating with regional organizations (including APTLD) regarding participation.

This outreach activity is part of the ICANN Strategic Plan.

More information about the meeting in Dubai is available on our website at: http://public.icann.org/dubai08.

Announcements

ICANN RDE Deposit Date required

As you may be aware, all ICANN accredited registrars are required to deposit a back-up copy of their gTLD/sTLD registration data to ICANN through a Registrar Data Escrow service provider. Having selected Iron Mountain Digital as the service provider for the RDE program, LogicBoxes is currently in the process of integrating with them.

By now, you may have received an intimation from ICANN regarding the RDE Deposit date for your Registrar Companies. Kindly provide us with this date at the earliest so that we may ensure this is done in a timely manner.

Also, do let us know if your Registrar company is registering gTLDs/sTLDs through any Platform/Service provider other than LogicBoxes. As per ICANN policy, only one consolidated data deposit is allowed per Registrar company. Therefore, if you have multiple service providers for different TLDs, it is necessary that you consolidate the data for your Registrar before sending it across to Iron Mountain.

If you are using multiple platforms for gTLD/sTLD registrations, please contact your LogicBoxes account manager to discuss the consolidation process.

If you have any queries or concerns, please write into the Registrar Relations Team at LogicBoxes.

Announcements

Accept .ASIA Landrush Pre-apps now!!

The Sign-up process for .ASIA domains is now completed and you can start accepting pre-apps for the .ASIA Landrush. The .ASIA Landrush is scheduled to begin on 20th February 2008, and your Customers and Resellers can now pre-apply for their list of desired .ASIA domains.

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Announcements

.ASIA Landrush Pre-apps

Please be informed that we are in the process of signing up all our Registrars and Resellers for .ASIA domain registration. The .ASIA Landrush is scheduled to begin on 20th Feb 2008. Your Customers and Resellers will soon be able to pre-apply for their list of desired .ASIA domains through LogicBoxes.

The Sign-up process will be completed by Monday, 18th February 2008 post which you will be able to accept Pre-apps from your Customers and Resellers. The default pricing for .ASIA will be set during Sign-up and you may change this pricing if you wish, through your Control panel.

ICANN Announcements

ICANN Concludes Successful India Meeting

Discussions on Internationalized Domain Names provide direction for progress

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers put the wrap on its 31st International Public Meeting in New Delhi today after five days of discussions about the future of the Internet.

“These meetings are vital to ICANN’s model of bottom-up, consensus driven policy making in action,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN’s Board Chairman.