The .NAME Registry will be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance on 20 January 2008, as per the following schedule:

Maintenance Window
Date – January 20, 2008
Time: 0300 hrs – 0500 hrs GMT/UTC
Duration: 2 hours

Affected Systems – Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management on the Live interface.

This outage shall have no impact on your domain names, which will continue to work properly.

Please inform your Sub-Resellers and Customers suitably of this Registry-imposed downtime. We shall be reminding you of the outage once again, 24 hours prior to the scheduled downtime.

Please feel free to get in touch with our Support team, in case of any queries/doubts.

Document released by ICANN for Public Notice

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.: Following the posting of the Frameworks and Principles for Accountability and Transparency, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers today published a document that countenances some possible additional improvements in dispute resolution mechanisms.

In response to feedback on accountability and transparency issues during the consultation process — especially feedback received during a workshop at ICANN’s Los Angeles meeting held in November 2007 — the ‘Next Steps’ document contains two ideas: