Kieren McCarthy issued a couple of updates in the ICANN Blog yesterday. ICANN is holding a meeting this week in Puerto Rico.

The first update has to do with the Registerfly situation. Mostly it recounts other updates with the bottom line that ICANN and Registerfly (and its head honcho Kevin Medina) are still in court, and that the judge is miffed at Medina and Registerfly. It's not clear that anything has really changed in this case in the last couple of weeks, and it's not clear what data Registerfly has not supplied to ICANN and GoDaddy. It does seem from the comments on this blog entry, and it was obvious this would happen, that some people are unhappy with GoDaddy and feel mistreated. Consider:

...They [GoDaddy] say that ICANN has not given them authority to allow ex-Registerfly customers to transfer domains from GoDaddy before 60 days has passed. During that time many people's domains will expire and they will be forced to renew them with GoDaddy. If they do not, their domains will be parked by GoDaddy.

The blog also notes meetings at the Puerto Rico ICANN Fiesta related to protection of registrants, a relatively new area of concern for ICANN. The other blog entry goes into more detail on the subject. Some of these subjects, specifically data escrow, really could mitigate the effects of future registrar or registry debacles, if policies are set that give some rights to registrants. ICANN still seems more concerned with taking care of registrars than registrants, but we'll see how these meetings go.