ICANN Announcements

New-Look Meeting Participation Website Goes Live in Conjunction with New Delhi Schedule of Events

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Colorful graphics and a modern design outfit this new-look website with improved functionality and usability for visitors. The site is not only an important resource for on-site meeting participants, but also an essential element for those who wish to participate remotely.

The site, found at http://public.icann.org, went live today in conjunction with the schedule for next month’s meeting in New Delhi in order to provide an estimated 700 physical attendees and several hundred virtual visitors with all the information they need to participate in the event. The meeting will take place from 10-15 February 2008.

The new design, which includes the use of graphics for improved site navigation, also provides easy access to meeting agendas, presentations, and transcripts; as well as links to chatrooms and audiocasts for remote users who want to listen in.

So whether it’s in person, or in one of our meeting chatrooms – we hope to see you in New Delhi.

The new home for everything you need to know about how to participate in ICANN, is found at http://public.icann.org.

The New Delhi Meeting page and schedule are available at http://del.icann.org.
Please send any questions or comments to [email protected].

ICANN Announcements

ICANN Seeks Expressions of Interest from Auction Design Experts

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ICANN is seeking expressions of interest from entities experienced in developing and managing auction processes. ICANN has identified several areas where auctions might be an appropriate tool, such as the efficient disposition of data from terminated registrars and registries, the allocation of single-character second-level domain names, and perhaps, resolution of contention between competing commercial applicants for identical strings in the application process for new generic Top Level Domains.

A number of commenters and academics have recommended auctions as the preferred method of objectively allocating scarce resources such as popular second-level domain names or gTLD strings. Also, ICANN received substantial public comment in the discussion on allocation of single-character second-level names that the names should be allocated through an auction model.

Announcements

Minor Changes to SuperSite Hosting Pages

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We have made some textual changes to the Hosting pages of the SuperSite. These should appear without any manual intervention from your end if the updated files have not been modified by you earlier.

Incase you have made some changes to these .htm files at your end, you will need to compare the updated copies of these files with the modified/translated versions, and make the necessary changes.

The modified files are:

1. hosting_features.html (tabbed hosting features listing)
2. email_features.html (tabbed email features listing)
3. combined_features_hosting.html (windows & linux hosting features page)
4. email_features.html (email features page)

Please click on the links above to view a sample of the page that has been modified.

These files can be edited from your SuperSite Admin interface. The paths to these files have been detailed below:

1. Add Modify Content/Themes -> Website Content -> Your Language -> Products -> Hosting -> Web_email_hosting -> Includes -> hosting_features.html

2. Add Modify Content/Themes -> Website Content -> Your Language -> Products -> Hosting -> Web_email_hosting -> Includes -> email_features.html

3. Add Modify Content/Themes -> Website Content -> Your Language -> Products -> Features -> Combined_features_hosting -> combined_features_hosting.html

4. Add Modify Content/Themes -> Website Content -> Your Language -> Products -> Features -> Email_features -> email_features.html

Please ensure that you reload your SuperSite cache once you have made these changes. You will also need to pass on this information to your resellers in case they have modified their own SuperSite, and have thus not inherited the changes automatically.

In case you require any further assistance, please feel free to contact your Account Manager.

Announcements, Registries

.TV/.CC Registry Downtime – Final Notice

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As previously informed, the .TV and .CC Registry will be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance on January 18, 2008, as per the following schedule:

Maintenance Window
Date – January 18, 2008
Time: 0200 hrs – 0600 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 4 Hrs.

We hope that you have suitably informed your Sub-Resellers and Customers of this Registry-imposed downtime. Please feel free to contact our Support Team should you have any queries.

Announcements

Second Level .IN Pricing Revised

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The pricing for renewals and transfer-ins of second level .IN domain extensions will be increased by a few cents on 17th Jan, 2007 at 10:00 hours GMT. The sole reason for the increase in pricing is the fluctuations in the exchange rate, which unfortunately cannot be waived off.

You can now renew or transfer second level .IN domain extensions at the pricing given below:

Domain Registration Slab .IN Pricing
Base Slab $16.49
Slab 1 $14.29
Slab 2 $13.99
Slab 3 $13.79
Slab 4 $13.79
Slab 5 $13.49

Note:The above pricing applies only to Registrars Reselling .IN domain names through LogicBoxes.

We suggest that you change your pricing immediately and inform all your Resellers about the revised pricing at the earliest.

Please feel free to get in touch with your LogicBoxes Account Manager for any further information that you may require.