Newsletter (13 May 2013)

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Dear members:

APTLD Internal –13 May,
2013

Next Meeting:

Title: The 63rd Members’ Meeting in
Xi’an, China – August 2013

Date: Aug 22 and 23,
2013

Location: Xi’an, China

Venue: TBC

Members

APTLD announced CNNIC to be the new secretariat

(Verisign-.cc)

Verisign to Present at the J.P. Morgan
Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference

http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/news-events/press-room/articles/index.xhtml?artLink=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLm13bmV3c3Jvb20uY29tL2FydGljbGUvcnNzP2lkPTE3MTcyMTY%3D

(.iq)

CMC Informs UNESCO of Media Violations

http://www.cmc.iq/en/morenews/index481.html

(.nz)

Registrations open for NetHui 2013

https://internetnz.net.nz/news/media-releases/2013/Registrations-open-NetHui-2013

(ictQatar)

Qatar National Broadband Plan Open For
Public Consultation

http://www.ictqatar.qa/en/news-events/news/qatar-national-broadband-plan-open-public-consultation

(AusRegistry)

Global
web address regulator approves .melbourne

http://www.ariservices.com/news-global_web_address_regulator_approves_melbourne.php

(Neustar)
Neustar Names Leonard Kennedy as Senior Vice President
and General Counsel

http://www.neustar.biz/about-us/news-room/press-releases/2013/neustar-names-leonard-kennedy-as-svp-and-general-counsel

There were 887,000 .vn internationalized domain
names registered as of the end of March, Dot VN, Inc. disclosed this month.

http://domainnamewire.com/2013/05/09/vietnam-idns/

ICANN

The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC)
wishes to share with the ICANN community its progress in consideration of the
GAC advice and what steps are still to be taken. The NGPC met on 8 May to
consider a Plan for responding to the Governmental Advisory Committee’s advice
on New gTLDs, transmitted to the Board through its 11 April Beijing Communiqué.
The Plan is in two parts: Part 1 shown below consists of actions for soliciting
input from Applicants and from the Community.

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-10may13-en.htm

Next Set of Initial Evaluation Results Released.
Total Number of Passing Applications Now 300 View Them Here.

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-10may13-en

Current ICANN Public Consultations

FY14 Draft Operating Plan and Budget

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-10may13-en.htm

Whois
Information Status Policy

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-10may13-en.htm

Others:

Part 1 of 5: Introduction: New gTLD Security and
Stability Considerations http://blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/part_1_of_5_introduction

The membership of the Multistakeholder Advisory
Group of the Internet Governance Forum has been renewed.

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2013/pi2058.doc.htm

ICANN has published a document with replies to
questions and comments made during the Public Forum Session in Beijing:

http://beijing46.icann.org/meetings/beijing2013/presentation-public-forum-responses-11apr13-en.pdf

See also Steve Crocker’s blog entry on this
document:

http://blog.icann.org/2013/05/answering-your-questions

APNIC supports IPv6 deployment in Vietnam http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2013/ipv6-day-vietnam