ICANN makes a mistake on Reveal Day
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As we all know, ICANN has revealed few days ago the list of the 1 930 applications for new gTLDs. The problem is that the organization also revealed the personal datas of applicants by mistake...
Many applicants must have panicked as they realized, that ICANN had published their home adresses online along with the gTLDs they had applied for. Even though the ICANN calls it a “human error”, an “investigation” just started in order to figure out what went wrong.
CEO Rod Beckstrom and his two partners Steve Crocker and Akram Atallah published a note to apologize :
"Dear (...),
On behalf of ICANN, we want to personally apologize for our error in exposing your postal address on the TLD Application website. This was a human error, and we have corrected it. We are conducting an internal investigation in order to learn from this mistake and to ensure that it does not happen again.
In the meantime, please be assured that the New Generic Top-level Domain Program remains on track. We are moving ahead with the screening and evaluation of applications, and returning to our shared goal of bringing competition and choice to the Internet’s domain name space.
We are committed to serving you to the very best of our ability and to ensuring the integrity of the New gTLD Program. If you have questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us directly.
Sincerely,
ICANN"
If all personnal datas have been removed by now, hopefully, this "human error" won't affect ICANN's reputation...
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Posted on : 25/06/2012
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