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What do you do if you’re the government of a country without a ccTLD, because the rest of the world does not recognize you as a country? Perhaps the strangest solution to this predicament is to ask another country with a semantically meaningful c...
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January 21, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.sl, .so, Domain Policy, sierra leone, somaliland
The Pacific island nation of Niue is loudly demanding that ICANN hand over control of its ccTLD, .nu, after two decades of bitter argument. The government has taken the highly unusual move of filing a redelegation request with ICANN’s IANA unit p...
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January 5, 2021 Kevin Murphy
.nu, .SE, Domain Policy, gac, iis, iusn, niue, redelegation
ICANN still hasn’t formally cancelled its public meeting in Cancun, Mexico next March, but it appears to be planning for scheduled in-person gatherings to not resume until the fourth quarter of next year. While nobody in their right mind seems to...
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December 22, 2020 Kevin Murphy
cancun, coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, icann 70, icann 71, icann 72, pandemic, The Hague
Verisign’s top policy veep is set to become the third chair of the ICANN working group looking at Whois policy in the post-GDPR world. Keith Drazek has been recommended to head the long-running group, known as the EPDP, and the GNSO Council is du...
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December 8, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, epdp, gdpr, ssad
The World Intellectual Property Organization handled its 50,000th UDPR case on November 20, the organization has announced. It’s taken WIPO, which designed the policy and was the first to administer it back in 1999, over two decades to reach this...
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November 30, 2020 Kevin Murphy
coronavirus, covid-19, Domain Policy, pandemic
ICANN has approved a payout of over half a million dollars to outside lawyers for work on a legal dispute it does not want you to know about. The board of directors a week ago approved the disbursement of a “[Redacted – Privileged & Confiden...
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November 17, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, sexual harassment, transparency
Social media was flooded with tributes today after it was sadly announced that one of ICANN’s elder statespeople, Marilyn Cade, has died. Cade, who participated in ICANN and the wider internet governance community for decades, was widely admired ...
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November 5, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, igf, igf-usa, marilyn cade
In a move that will surprise nobody, ICANN’s Nominating Committee has maintained the status quo on the ICANN board of directors by reappointing two of its previous selections. NomCom’s two picks are Sarah Deutsch and Avri Doria, both of who...
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October 5, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gender, nomcom
ICANN’s board of directors has refused to comment on the issue of “closed generic” gTLDs, bouncing the thorny issue back to the community. In its response to the SubPro working group’s draft final report this week, the board dec...
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October 1, 2020 Kevin Murphy
closed generics, Domain Policy, gac, gnso, subpro
With the deadline for commenting on draft new gTLD program rules rapidly approaching, you may be tempted to visit the ICANN web site to peruse the comments that have already been submitted by others. Good bloody luck. The way ICANN has chosen to presen...
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September 29, 2020 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, subpro, transparency