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📅 - Absentee Voting Modification to Bylaws Now Open for Public Comment - The GNSO Council approved a resolution to recommend to the Board a modificationof the ICANN bylaws that would permit electronic absentee voting in certain circumstancesin order to allow Council members who are absent from Council meetings to vote.A copy of the recommended modification is available at http://gnso.icann.org/drafts/gnso-absentee-voting-bylaws-amendment-07may08.pdf [PDF,60K].Currently, a member of the Council is unable to vote on an issue when absentfrom the Council meeting at which the vote occurs. The Council found that thisnot only disenfranchises members from ...
📅 - Public Comment Period Now Open for Domain Tasting Motion - The GNSO Council has approved by super majority vote amotion to discourage use of the current "add grace period" (AGP), duringwhich domains can be returned within five days without cost, for "domaintasting" purposes. The motion, which is pending for Board action, would prohibitany gTLD operator that has implemented an "add grace period" (AGP) from offeringa refund for any domain name deleted during the AGP that exceeds 10% of itsnet new registrations during that month, or fifty domain names, whicheveris greater. An exemption could be granted based on extraordinary ...
📅 - MS Doesn't Need Yahoo, says Gates - Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says the company should have no problems developing its Internet strategy without the addition of Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com). The search engine giant declined a revised $47.5 billion offer from Microsoft last weekend, just before Microsoft retracted its offer on Monday. Gates, who will cease his full-time work at Microsoft come June, says he had no real part in the company's pursuit of acquiring Yahoo. "The key decisions on that will be made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who took a look at Yahoo and decided that, on our own, he likes the stuff that we're doing," said Gates, according to reports. "I wouldn't rule out some ...
📅 - Internap Plans Green Boston Facility - Internet business solutions provider Internap Network Services (internap.com) announced on Friday it plans to add around 15,000 square feet of colocation at a new stand-alone 45,000 square foot facility adjacent to its existing Boston data center. This week has seen more than the usual number of new data center announcements. On Thursday alone, Technical Real Estate announced it has started construction on a new 32,000 square foot facility in Sydney, Australia while Commtouch launched a new data center in Hong Kong.According to the press release, the expansion will help Internap meet strong demand for its bundled Internet solutions. The first phase of is ...
📅 - The webhost industry: week review - Any other week, the big, notable thing about this week's news would be the steady continuation of the flood of data center openings we've seen in recent weeks. But this week also saw the utterly remarkable matter of two separate disappearances of servers containing customer data from facilities. On Wednesday, we reported that the server containing the website of Pop musician Peter Gabriel had been among an undetermined number of servers stolen from the facilities of his hosting provider. The service provider in question appears to be Rednet, which is a defunct brand of UK company Opal Telecom. Very little information about the robbery was available, but the matter was ...
📅 - Verizon Connects Troops With Home - Telecommunications provider Verizon Business (http://www.verizonbusiness.com) said on Friday it is expanding its use of technology to help US military personnel based in Iraq stay in touch with their families back home. The company says for the fifth consecutive year, it is providing free calling for Iraq-based troops from May 8 to 14 for Mother's Day, June 12 to 18 for Father's Day and July 2 to 8 for Independence Day.According to the press release, the calls home are made possible through a "state-of-the-art" Verizon Business mobile communications vehicle currently deployed to Iraq.Verizon is also teaming with Cisco, Wal-Mart and the USO to provide free video ...