The United States and China have been engaging in cyber war games that are causing anger in Washington over the veracity of the Beijing oriented cyber attacks on government organizations and big businesses. China has very belligerent in addressing the problem and they feel that they don’t have to because the power relationship has changed between the US and China and it is favoring them.  To read further on this story click here. 

ICANN now has identified a single incident to what happened with he TAS Security problem. The problem stemmed from a problem in the way the system handled interrupted deletions of file attachments according Akram Atallah, ICANN’s COO. This caused other applicants to be able to view other applicants attached documents. It is unsure whether they will continue with the April 30th application they will update the target date. To read further click here.

According to TIm Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, that he is certainly not impressed with ICANN’s new top gTLD program that while allow customers to brand their domain names. He says that the only role for new domain names is if it is offering something social different like the purpose of a .org for non-profits. He also isn’t a fan of having to register trademarks. To read further on this article click here.

The New gTLD filing deadline has been delayed once again due to the TAS glitch. In a statement made by ICANN’s COO Akram Atallah the problem was data leakage problem.

“We believe that we have fixed the glitch, and we are testing it to make sure.

ICANN is committed to reopening the application system as soon as we can confirm that the problem has been resolved and we have had proper time for testing.

We also want to inform all applicants, before we reopen, whether they have been affected by the glitch. We are still gathering information so we can do that.

Accordingly, the application system will not reopen tomorrow.”

The Plans may change after April 20th.

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ICANN has now threatened to shut down company eName Technology after the 1111.com was supposedly hijacked. The technology company has refused to release any information about the company and is not returning emails. Unfortunately the register has 15 days to provide information about concerning the Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy until it will be shut down. The domain was transferred between Feb 12-16 and then the site started having problems around the 28th. To read further information click here. 

ICANN says that they plan on notifying all applicants whether they were affected by the security breach. The company still plans on having the big reveal day on April 30th, but who knows if they will have this mess straightened out. ICANN states,”An intensive review has produced no evidence that any data beyond the file names and user names could be accessed by other users.We are currently reviewing the data to confirm which applicants were affected. As soon as the data is confirmed, we will inform all applicants whether they were affected.” To read further on this topic click here.

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The recent glitch in the TAS system, which is the application program for the new gTLD program, made it not possible for other users to be able to view competitors data. ICANN’s goal remains to see who was affected by the glitch in the system and reopen the application to those users that were affected and give them the fair chance to fix their applications. A intensive review showed that the glitch had no corruption or loss of data. To read further on this topic click here. 

ICANN although having a major glitches in the in the TLD application system is facing some praise and respect for the results of a meeting in April. The company is no longer facing frantic changes and amendment policies for the new program. The “Resolution on defensive application for TLD’s” was a responsive resolution that helped deal with the problems that companies were defensively applying to the program to not loose their trade marks. ICANN says that cybersquatting is never legal so companies should be aware of that there were existing defenses in the system to prevent that. To read further click here. 

A small New York Company, Name.Space,  says that ICANN does not have control over 482 top-level domain strings and the company claims that cannot be awarded to others. It claims that the company has been operating a root DNS system that has been functional since 1996. The CEO of Name.Space has notified ICANN that they cannot use these domain names and that these names predate ICANN and they do not have authority to sell them to third parties. It is a waste of time accor To read further on this topic click here.