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For the .Info of the IPC, URS Requires a PDP 22 Aug 2013 | 07:55 pm
ICANN’s Board meets today, and included on its Consent Agenda is approval of the revised registry contracts for .Biz, .Info, and .Org. ICA saw nothing in the proposed revisions to warrant comment – un...
ICANN’s String Confusion Objection Process Gets Very Confusing 21 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
There’s an old joke that only two economists in the entire world actually know what they are talking about – and that they disagree! Apparently something similar holds true for ICANN string confusi...
LRO Looks DOA 5 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
The Legal Rights Objection (LRO) mechanism administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on behalf of ICANN is starting to look like the reverse FISA Court of domain name system ...
NTIA Caught Between a Congressional Rock and a Hard Place GAC 29 Jul 2013 | 12:03 am
On July 18th the Senate Appropriations Committee issued Report 113–78 on S. 1329, the “DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE AND JUSTICE, AND SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2014”. The Report con...
ICA on the Record at the Durban Public Forum --Time to “Walk the Walk” on Registrant Rights and Due Process 18 Jul 2013 | 07:39 pm
The following consist of a prepared statement delivered by ICA Counsel Philip Corwin at the ICANN Public Forum in Durban today, plus the raw transcript of the subsequent interchange --- Good after...
ICANN in Breach of URS Contract Commitment 17 Jul 2013 | 09:22 pm
To our shock and dismay, ICANN staff today stated in Durban that it is not developing a standard and enforceable contract for Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) arbitration dispute providers, going ...
Community Surprised by ICANN Announcement of Five Strategy Panels to Facilitate Cross-Community Dialogue 16 Jul 2013 | 06:11 pm
Members of the ICANN community assembled in Durban, South Africa were greatly surprised by announcement on the meeting’s first day that no less than five new strategy panels were being for...
Difficult Durban Dialogue between GAC and NGPC 15 Jul 2013 | 10:01 pm
Durban is a lovely beach city on the Indian Ocean with idyllic winter weather, but you might as well be on Mars if you’re ensconced in the vast windowless meeting rooms of its International Conference...
ICANN Downgrades Registrants’ “Rights” to “Benefits” 10 Jul 2013 | 06:43 am
We got pretty excited recently when ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade said that registrants were ICANN’s primary customer[1] – but we must now curb our enthusiasm in light of the final treatment of registrants’ ...
EU Registrars Empowered to Seek New RAA Data Retention Exemption 8 Jul 2013 | 09:52 pm
ICANN’s Board approved the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) on June 27th, and its Resolution doing so noted that “the Board has accepted the GAC Advice in the Beijing Communiqué that the "t...
