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Domain investor George Kirikos has hired lawyers to send nastygrams to ICANN after a fight over the rules of etiquette on a working group mailing list. Kirikos claims there’s a “campaign of intimidation” against him by fellow voluntee...
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October 25, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, expected standards of behavior, gnso, icann 63, rights protection mechanisms, rpms
The US government appears to have reservations about Donuts’ recent hiring of ICANN bigwig Akram Atallah as its new CEO. Speaking at a session of ICANN 63 here in Barcelona today, National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Da...
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October 22, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, icann 63, NTIA
ICANN chair Cherine Chalaby has strongly denied claims from non-commercial stakeholders that its attitude to Whois reform is “biased” in favour of “special interests” such as trademark lawyers. In a remarkably fast reply (pdf) t...
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October 21, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, gdpr, icann 63, ncsg, unified access model
Registrars are still largely ignoring requests for private Whois data, according to a brand protection company working for Facebook. AppDetex wrote to ICANN (pdf) last week to say that only 3% of some 9,000 requests it has made recently have resulted i...
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October 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
appdetex, Domain Policy, gdpr, temp spec
I’ve only ever read two books about the domain name industry. The first one was Kieren McCarthy’s excellent Sex.com, the 2007 barely believable non-fictional tech-thriller that seemed to deliberately eschew inside-baseball policy talk in fa...
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October 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
book review, Domain Names - Strategies and Legal Aspects, Domain Policy, udpr
ICANN can tap into its $236 million new gTLD auction fund whenever it wants, and there’s nothing the community can do about it, according to its board of directors. The board this week said it has a “legal and fiduciary responsibility”...
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October 12, 2018 Kevin Murphy
auctions. last resort, Domain Policy
New gTLD applicant DotKids Foundation has asked ICANN for money to help it fight for .kids in an auction against Amazon and Google. The not-for-profit was the only new gTLD applicant back in 2012 to meet the criteria for ICANN’s Applicant Support...
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September 24, 2018 Kevin Murphy
applicant support, Domain Policy, dotkids, last resort
ICANN is expected to celebrate its 20th anniversary at its Barcelona meeting next month, but by some measures it has already had its birthday. If you ask Wikipedia, it asserts that ICANN was “created” on September 18, 1998, 20 years ago tod...
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September 18, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, IANA, icann 63, Jon Postel, jones day, Network Solutions
Could a lack of Whois records thwart the fight against attempts to interfere in this year’s US elections? That’s the threat raised by DomainTools CEO Tim Chen in a blog post, and others, this week. Chen points to recent research by Facebook...
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September 5, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, elections, epdp, fake news, FireEye, gdpr
Newcomers who get free travel to ICANN meetings will have to show they’re serious about participating in the community, under new rules. ICANN is revamping its Fellowship program to ensure that it’s actually meetings its goals of increasing...
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August 29, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Policy, fellowship