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Defensive Registration is the registering of domain names, often across multiple TLDs and in varied grammatical formats, for the primary purpose of protecting intellectual property or trademark from DNS Abuse and cybersquatting. Despite changes in the domain name industry, defensive registration continues to be common practice for many brands and especially risk-averse organizations.
- In a CircleID blog post on December 30, 2021, Jeff Neuman questioned the practicality of ICANN’s Accountability Mechanisms, called for ICANN's Whistleblower Policy to extend to persons other than employees of ICANN, and accused ICANN of retaliating against DHH for filing an Urgent Reconsideration Request citing ICANN staff's inaction in responding to its Assignment Request for the .hiphop Registry Agreement. ICANN has paused any further consideration of DHH’s Assignment request pending the outcome of the Reconsideration Request by the ICANN Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee (BAMC).
- Registration is open for the next SSAD ODP project update webinar on January 18, 2022 at 1500 UTC.
- On December 20, 2021, ICANN announced the launch of the SUBPRO Operational Design Phase.
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