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	<description>Postings from  on CircleID</description>
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	<dc:date>2026-04-06T20:04:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> Court Denies Preliminary Restriction of WLS (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a strongly worded ruling, a U.S. Federal Court Judge has ruled in ICANN's favor and denied plaintiffs' motion for preliminary injunction. Dotster and two other ICANN accredited registrars had asked the court for an order prohibiting ICANN from finalizing approval of VeriSign's proposed new "Wait Listing Service" (WLS). Plaintiffs alleged that WLS is "anti-competitive" and that ICANN breached its obligations under the registrar accreditation agreement (RAA) when ICANN gave preliminary approval to WLS last year. The court disagreed, ruling [PDF] as follows: <a href="https://circleid.com/postscourt_denies_preliminary_restriction_of_wls">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-06T13:04:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN Reaches Landmark Agreement With Country Domains (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) concluded its Montreal meeting with a landmark agreement that cements the relationship between ICANN and the worldwide community of country-code top-level domain registries. "Today's agreement represents both a historic achievement for the ICANN process, and a powerful vote of confidence in the newly reformed ICANN 2.0," said Paul Twomey, ICANN's president and CEO.

Finalizing four years of dialogue and negotiation, the creation of the [url=http://www.icann.org/montreal/ccnso-organization-topic.htm]Country-Code Names Supporting Organization[/url] (ccNSO) heralds a new era of cooperative and productive relations among ICANN and the country-code domain registries. The structure and rules for ICANN's new ccNSO were endorsed by domain registry organizations and individual managers representing every region and populated continent. "Today's agreement is a testament to how ICANN is seen as a forum the international Top Level Domain administrators can come together and jointly address issues," said Twomey. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsicann_reaches_landmark_agreement_with_country_domains">More...</a>]]></description>
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