The Sunrise period for the new gTLD for Switzerland’s largest city and canton by population, Zürich, commences on 30 August, and will run until 29 October.
Increasingly, feminist activists and groups are using technologies and digital spaces to organize, get informed, demand rights and report abuses. Notable cases in Argentina, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile and elsewhere illustrate just how useful digital spaces are for occupation and demonstration; also remarkable are the many disruptive ways in which feminist and women movements are taking back the internet in order to accomplish social and political change.
The number of domain names registered across ccTLDs in Latin America and the Caribbean passed the ten million mark according to an announcement from the Latin American and Caribbean Association of ccTLDs (LACTLD) in November.
[news release] Registration is now open for the 2020 LAC Domain Names Week, which will be held virtually. The theme of this year’s event is “Understanding the Ecosystem and Learning New Opportunities.”
Today [31 July], ICANN announced that registration for the 2019 LAC DNS Forum is now open. The forum will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 22 August 2019 during LACTLD‘s DNS Week and .PR’s 30th anniversary celebration.
| Event: | 2019 LAC DNS Forum |
| When: | 22 August 2019, 09:00â17:00 (AST) |
| Where: | Hyatt Place Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Registration: | http://lacdnsforum.lat/ |
The LAC DNS Forum brings together industry, Internet policy, and technical professionals interested in debating Domain Name System (DNS)-related issues with a focus on the Latin America and the Caribbean region. The forum also provides an opportunity for regional stakeholders to engage and network with global key players and experts in the field.
The forum is open to anyone interested in issues related to the domain name industry and its potential business opportunities. The target audience includes:
The annual LAC DNS Forum was first held in 2013 and is jointly organized by the Latin American and Caribbean ccTLDs Organization (LACTLD), the Latin American and Caribbean Address Registry (LACNIC), the Internet Society (ISOC), the Public Interest Registry (PIR), and ICANN.
ICANN‘s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address â a name or a number â into your computer or other device. That address must be unique, so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-07-31-en
ICANN has announced registration is now open for the 2018 LAC DNS Forum to be held in São Paulo, Brazil. The theme of this year’s event, which is part of AbraHosting Day, is “New Technologies and Digital Security.”
| Event: | 2018 LAC DNS Forum |
| When: | 29 November 2018, 9.00 AM â 5.00 PM |
| Where: | Centro Fecomercio de eventos РṢo Paulo, SP |
| Registration: (Portuguese only) |
https://eventos.locaweb.com.br/proximos-eventos/abrahosting-day-lac-dns-forum/ |
| Admission: | To request an invitation please contact your GSE representative or Daniel Fink â daniel.fink@icann.org |
The LAC DNS Forum brings together industry, Internet policy, and technical professionals interested in debating DNS-related issues. The forum also provides an opportunity to engage and network with key players and experts in the field.
The forum is open to anyone interested in issues related to the domain name industry and its potential business opportunities. The target audience includes:
This will be the fifth edition of the LAC DNS Forum, which was first held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013. This year’s event is jointly organized by Abrahosting, the Latin American and Caribbean ccTLDs Organization (LACTLD), the Latin American and Caribbean Address Registry (LACNIC), the Internet Society (ISOC), the Public Interest Registry (PIR), and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Today [10 Jan], ICANN announced a call for volunteers to serve on the Implementation Committee of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Strategic Plan. The volunteers will come from the LAC region and their work will focus exclusively on supporting the implementation of projects outlined in the LAC Strategic Plan.
Each of the strategic plan’s projects will be assigned to a working group that will be responsible for its execution. The Implementation Committee will focus on suggesting community members to be assigned to each of these working groups.
The committee will also participate in the working groups by providing input on project documents (objective, scope, KPIs, indicators, etc.) and monitoring the progress of each project. The draft materials and all final work products will be documented on the LAC Strategy Wiki.
If you are interested in joining the Implementation Committee of the LAC Strategic Plan, please sign up here. If you are having trouble accessing the form, please email rodrigo.saucedo@icann.org for assistance.
This call for volunteers will be circulated as widely as possible, with the purpose of ensuring broad representation and participation from the LAC Community. The deadline for submitting applications is 26 January 2018.
Per the request of the implementation committee, regular online meetings will be scheduled.
In 2013, a steering committee, which was composed of representatives from the different communities and regional organizations that participate in the ICANN community, prepared the LAC Strategic Plan, which was presented during ICANN46 in Beijing, China. The plan was divided into four areas of interest, 22 objectives, and 75 projects.
In 2015, the committee met again in Montevideo to review the LAC Strategic Plan and evaluate its progress. During this meeting, the plan objectives were aligned with the ICANN Strategic Plan (2016-2020). Currently, the renewed 2016-2020 plan includes both previous plans and several new projects.
As a result of ICANN‘s growth in global reach, the number of community participants from LAC has increased. This increase represents a great opportunity to get new community members involved in the development and refinement of the LAC Strategic Plan.
ICANN‘s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address â a name or a number â into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2018-01-10-en
Purpose: ICANN is seeking feedback on the initial draft of the Latin American and Caribbean DNS Marketplace Study. The goal of this study is to identify and define the strengths and weaknesses in the industry ecosystem within the region, and develop recommendations on how to advance the industry and bring it closer to the opportunities available.
Current Status: Initial draft of the “Latin American and Caribbean DNS Marketplace Study” published for public comment.
Next Steps: Improvements based on community inputs in the draft study report for final version publication.
Commissioned in January 2016, the study investigates the current state of Internet and domain name industry, explore best practices for the uptake of domain names and analyze the ecosystem. It recommends new business potentials based on global benchmarks and propose a way forward for the region.
A consortium led by Oxford Information Labs, LACTLD, EURid and InterConnect Communications is conducting the study for ICANN.
ICANN‘s Latin America and the Caribbean Strategic Plan defined four key areas of interest as strategic focus for the region. Two of those, namely Capacity Building and Outreach; and Economic Issues contemplate aspects to further develop the domain name industry. After consultation with members of LAC Strategic Plan Steering Committee, a request for proposal to conduct the study was released in September 2015 to commission a study to investigate the current state of the Internet and the domain name industry in the region, define best practices that have made an impact in domain name market growth, look at the broader ecosystem of the Internet infrastructure and online services and describe the impact of such elements on the overall evolution of the domain name industry, describe the business potential in the domain name industry in this region, and provide suggestions on how to develop the industry and what business models can be adopted in the entire industry chain. The consortium led by Oxford Information Labs was then contracted in early 2016 and now presents the initial draft report for public comments.
LAC DNS Marketplace Study [PDF, 3.69 MB]
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/public-comments/lac-dns-marketplace-2016-09-22-en
ICANN is seeking a provider to conduct a study on the domain name industry in the Latin America and the Caribbean region. The goal of this study is to identify and define the strengths and weaknesses in the industry ecosystem within the region, and develop recommendations on how to advance the industry and bring it closer to the opportunities available.
The ICANN‘s Latin America and the Caribbean Strategic Plan defined four key areas of interest as strategic focus for the region. Two of those, namely Capacity Building and Outreach; and Economic Issues contemplate aspects to further develop the domain name industry.
The study at a minimum will investigate the current state of the Internet and the domain name industry in the region, define best practices that have made an impact in domain name market growth, look at the broader ecosystem of the Internet infrastructure and online services and describe the impact of such elements on the overall evolution of the domain name industry, describe the business potential in the domain name industry in this region, and provide suggestions on how to develop the industry and what business models can be adopted in the entire industry chain. The study will include data, analysis, and recommendations.
The final report of the study is to be delivered no later than 18th April 2016.
For additional information and instructions for submitting responses please click here [ZIP, 407 KB].
Proposals should be submitted to LAC-DNS-Study-rfp@icann.org by 23:59 UTC on 23 October 2015.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-4-2015-09-25-en
The first L-Root instance in Paraguay has been successfully installed in Asunción, and will enhance the stability, security and resiliency of the Internet for users throughout Latin America.
“We are incredibly excited to announce the implementation of this new L-Root instance in Asunción,” said Rodrigo de la Parra, ICANN‘s Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean. “Joint ventures like these are a critical part of both increasing regional Internet infrastructure and strengthening the global DNS.”
The launch of the L-Root instance is a joint operation between ICANN and Paraguay’s National Computing Center of the National University of Asunción (Centro Nacional de Computación, Universidad Nacional de Asunción – UNA).
“This new L-Root instance will strengthen Internet infrastructure, offering greater efficiency, stability and security, in addition to an overall improved Internet experience throughout Paraguay,” said Ignacio Velázquez Guachire, General Director of the National Computing Center of the UNA. “We thank ICANN‘s managers and their technical confidence in NIC.py to be the custodians of this first L-Root instance in our country, which demonstrates the continued cooperation for the development of the region’s Internet.”
Beyond just helping mitigate certain network outages, this new L-Root instance will improve response times for the rapidly growing Internet community in Paraguay and the Latin American and Caribbean region as a whole.
“ICANN is pleased to see the first L-Root instances in Paraguay. We appreciate the tremendous effort from Asunción’s national university in hosting the L-Root. This effort speaks volumes to their commitment to both the Domain Name System and the stability and resiliency of the global Internet, and that of their own Internet experience.” said Terry Manderson, Director of DNS Engineering at ICANN.
There are 13 “root” DNS servers, identified by alphabetic letters A through M – the “L” root server operated by ICANN being one. Computers typically communicate with each other using numeric addresses, while humans find it easier to use and remember names (for instance, users typically remember the domain name “ICANN.ORG” more easily than the Internet Protocol address, 2620:0:2d0:200::7).
The DNS translates names into addresses and the root servers, such as the one installed in Asunción, provide the pointers to the servers for top-level domains (the last part of domain names, such as the “ORG” in “ICANN.ORG”). Spreading this root information geographically by duplicating the root servers in various locations leads to a resilient, dispersed system that reduces the risk of being taken offline by a problem or attack and reduces the time it takes to look up names on the Internet.
For more information about L-Root, please visit www.dns.icann.org/.
This ICANN announcement was sourced from:
https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-24-en