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Whistleblowing and ICANN 17 May 2013 | 03:01 am
A curious email appeared in my inbox this morning. It was titled ‘Concerns at ICANN’, was addressed to the Board, signed ‘A Concerned Employee’, and came through an anonymous Hushmail email account. B...
Is the dark side of new gTLDs starting to emerge? 19 Apr 2012 | 06:06 am
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 –...
Who should control the Internet? 15 Jan 2012 | 07:59 pm
It is going to be a particularly crazy year in terms of Internet policy and governance, maybe even more than so than 2005, when the World Summit on the Information Society happened. NPR used the laun...
My analysis of the broken ICANN culture 14 Jan 2012 | 12:06 pm
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...
Xmas vid about my little girl 2 Dec 2011 | 04:56 pm
We’re heading to the UK for Christmas. I’ve been meaning to try out this online video/picture tool at Animoto for work reasons. The two combined…
Why won’t my van start? 13 Nov 2011 | 04:04 pm
I need your help. And I am counting on you and the power of the Internet to fix an issue dear to my heart. I have a gorgeous 1966 split-screen VW camper van. And rather cruelly I have left it on its ...
ICANN public comments: a glacier moving in the wrong direction 7 Sep 2011 | 11:52 am
I am both happy and depressed to see a public comment period open at ICANN talking about making changes to ICANN’s public comment period process. With appalling inevitability, everything about the co...
Threatening faxes, dot-xxx and an angry Vint Cerf 15 May 2011 | 10:24 am
One of the more bizarre situations I have found myself in while covering domain name system overseer ICANN, both outside and inside the organization, was at the Vancouver meeting in December 2005. It...
I wish [bang!] ICANN would [bang!] read its own [bang!] papers 25 Feb 2011 | 07:08 pm
Sorry to always be harping on about ICANN; it’s the not exactly the most important organisation in the world. But it is the one bureaucracy I have come to know really well and so just can’t help but r...
United Nations continues to undermine Internet Governance Forum 25 Feb 2011 | 06:09 am
The first preparatory meeting for the 2011 Internet Governance Forum has ended with a significant degree of uncertainty thanks to ongoing bureaucratic delays. Over two days, representatives from busi...
