Business Constituency at ICANN

09/17/2022

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09/17/2022

Join the BC Open Meeting at ICANN 75 in Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre tomorrow 18 September 2022 by 15:00 Malaysian Local Time (UTC+8) or 07:00 UTC. The meeting will be streamed live on YouTube and is open to the public. Kindly visit our website https://buff.ly/3HNjWyX. The GNSO Policy Briefing page can be found here https://go.icann.org/gnsobriefing and our agenda wiki page here https://buff.ly/3BNJ9cU.

The Commercial Business Users Constituency (BC) is the voice of commercial Internet users within ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN is a global body with responsibility for certain policies that relate to the domain name system (DNS). Domain names are the names consumers and businesses rely upon to find websites for legitimate products and services on the Internet. Business users rely on a stable and secure Internet and ecommerce experience, one that serves their users and customers on a global basis.

06/29/2022

On 13 May 2022, the Council and the European Parliament agreed on the Directive on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the EU (NIS 2 Directive), which adapts the previous NIS Directive to current needs.
The BC has been very active in explaining issues with legitimate access to registrant data to the European Institutions. We believe that this directive will be a cornerstone in reducing DNS abuse and allow for the development of future policies that will help tackle this challenge. The last comment filed by the BC to the negotiations can be accessed here - https://buff.ly/3xRhmVN

06/28/2022

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Fellowship Program, ICANN's oldest global capacity-development program. Launched in 2007 at ICANN29 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Fellowship Program was created to provide a gateway for individuals from underserved and underrepresented communities from around the world to become active members of the ICANN community.
Many BC members started their journey with ICANN as fellows and are invaluable members of the ICANN community.
Some stats to showcase the success of the program can be viewed here - https://buff.ly/3a17ctR

ICANN commemorates the 15th anniversary of the ICANN Fellowship Program, its oldest global capacity-development program.

06/28/2022

In the first quarter of 2022, APWG observed 1,025,968 total phishing attacks. This was the worst quarter for phishing that APWG has ever observed, and the first time that the quarterly total has exceeded one million.
For full report please visit -

The APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report analyzes phishing attacks reported to the APWG by its member companies, its Global Research Partners, through the organization’s website at https://apwg.org , and by e-mail submissions to [email protected]. APWG also measures the evolution, pr...

06/24/2022

The BC is proud to announce that the following members have been elected by the BC to represent it in the GNSO and the NomCom:
GNSO Councillor - Mark Datysgeld
BC NomCom Large Business Representative - Jordyn Buchanan
BC NomCom Small Business Representative - Vivek Goyal
These representatives will begin their term during ICANN 75 that will take place in Kuala Lumpur in September 2022.
The ICANN NomCom is an independent committee tasked with selecting key ICANN leadership positions, including some members of the ICANN Board of Directors and the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) Board, as well as other selections as set forth in the ICANN Bylaws.

06/23/2022

“Phishing attacks are on the rise”. This is the underlying theme of the 2021 IC3 Annual Report released by FBI.
The report states that “the number of complaints related to Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming" have been steadily increasing for the last 5 years with an increase of 25% in complaints between 2020 and 2021”
For the complete report please visit - https://buff.ly/38m2A04

06/23/2022

“Phishing attacks are on the rise”. This is the underlying theme of the 2021 IC3 Annual Report released by FBI.
The report states that “the number of complaints related to "Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming" have been steadily increasing for the last 5 years with an increase of 25% in complaints between 2020 and 2021”
For the complete report please visit - https://buff.ly/38m2A04

06/22/2022

One of the established priorities for BC is “decreasing the incidence of DNS abuse” and we are very excited with the launch of Centralized DNS Abuse Reporting Service by DNS Abuse Institute.
This service will make it easier for users to report DNS abuse and for registries and registrars to process reports.
Link to the service - https://buff.ly/3NhuOb8
https://buff.ly/3QRQWMv

05/26/2022

A new course about the Business Constituency (BC) of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) is now available on ICANN Learn! This new course describes the mission and structure of the BC, how BC members proactively participate in ICANN policy development and Internet governance, and how more businesses can join the BC. Review the course here https://buff.ly/38quetm

03/08/2022

Today by 18:30 UTC, the BC Membership is scheduled to have an Open Session. Zoom participation links will be published before the session starts on the ICANN73 meeting schedule. Be sure to have registered for to access the links!