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The eight nations of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization are unhappy that ICANN is giving .amazon to Amazon the retailer and have vowed to spread the word that ICANN has acted “illegally”. ACTO secretary general Alexandra Moreira has...
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January 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac
ICANN has moved long-time head of North America stakeholder engagement Chris Mondini to head up the organization’s European office. Mondini will take over the role of vice president of stakeholder engagement for Europe and will also become managi...
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January 14, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
In an unprecedented move, ICANN’s Address Supporting Organization has exercised its special powers to demand ICANN hand over documents relating to the Ethos Capital acquisition of .org’s Public Interest Registry. There’s a possibility...
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January 2, 2020 Kevin Murphy
bylaws, didp, Domain Policy, empowered community, ethos, inspection request, irp, isoc, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN has promoted Mandy (Kathryn) Carver to the position of senior VP for governmental and intergovernmental engagement, replacing her late boss, Tarek Kamel. Carver has been with ICANN for 13 years and reported to Kamel, as a plain VP, for the last s...
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December 10, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy
ICANN’s board of directors will gather today to consider whether the acquisition of Public Interest Registry by a private equity company means that it should reverse its own decision to allow PIR to raise .org price arbitrarily. Don’t get t...
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November 21, 2019 Kevin Murphy
cep, Domain Policy, eff, irp, isoc, Namecheap, price caps, reconsideration, rfr
ICANN has selected Puerto Rico for its ICANN 73 public meeting. The meeting is slated to be held at the Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan from March 5 to March 10, 2022. That’s the same venue ICANN visited in March last year, in the wake ...
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November 11, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 73, Puerto Rico
David Redl, the former head of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration has joined Amazon as an internet governance advisor, I’ve learned. I don’t know whether he’s taken a full-time job or is a contractor, bu...
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November 6, 2019 Kevin Murphy
acto, Domain Policy, dot-brands, gac, icann 66
Former US government official Ashley Heineman has joined the staff of GoDaddy. Heineman was until quite recently a policy specialist at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the US representative on ICANN’s Governm...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 65, NTIA
ICANN has rejected two appeals against its decision to lift price caps and introduce new anti-cybersquatting measures in the .org space. In other news, gambling is going on in Rick’s Cafe. NameCheap and the Electronic Frontier Foundation both fil...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
bamc, Domain Policy, icann 66, price caps, public interest registry, rfr
The opening ceremony of ICANN’s 66th public meeting set a somber tone, as leaders bade farewell to recently departed and departing colleagues. Outgoing chair Cherine Chalaby and CEO Göran Marby delivered eulogies respectively to senior vice presi...
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November 4, 2019 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 66