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ICANN’s Big Night Out, Morning After plan
ICANN released the fourth version of its Applicant Guidebook this week. The process has been going on for so long with so many endless controversies and scandals, that those that actually want to apply...
View ArticleWhy ICANN doesn’t need to go back to the GAC over dot-xxx
This Friday, it looks as though the ICANN Board will follow the clear conclusions drawn by its independent review and approve dot-xxx. Given the importance of the first use of the review process, the...
View ArticleDot-xxx to be approved tomorrow
The domain name system’s overseeing body, ICANN, will approve the controversial Internet extension dot-xxx, designed for online pornography, at its Board meeting tomorrow. The pre-announcement came in...
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Finishing up the rules for new Internet extensions
Two very interesting things are happening today that may have an enormous impact on the Internet for many years to come. First, the ICANN Board is meeting at a special two-day retreat in Trondheim,...
View ArticleSex.com sold (again) for $13m
A set of three documents filed in California Bankruptcy Court earlier this week reveal that the world’s most valuable domain name – Sex.com – has been sold for $13m, just one million dollars more than...
View ArticleA damaged process and a damaged community
I haven’t written for a while. There’s usually two reasons for that: either I have been horribly over-worked, or I need a break from the strange, incestuous and often bitter world of Internet policy...
View ArticleSo what does that weird GAC wording actually mean?
UPDATE: The ICANN Board just published the minutes from its meeting on Tuesday and intriguingly it has formally “triggered” the GAC-Board consultation that is explained in greater depth below. That...
View ArticleMy analysis of the broken ICANN culture
I wrote an extensive review of the dot-jobs saga earlier this week on .Nxt called: The case study that could kill ICANN. This afternoon, I saw the Stephane van Gelder had referenced it in a blog post:...
View ArticleIs the dark side of new gTLDs starting to emerge?
Last week, I received a highly unusual email claiming that an article on my personal website was libellous and insisting I take it down within a week. Even more unusually, the article was from 2002 –...
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Colombia is about to make a colossal mistake with .co
The good news: there’s still time to fix it Ten years ago, the most effective branding exercise the internet registry market has ever seen began. And to celebrate the anniversary, its owner is going...
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