The Attorney Generals of four right-wing states sued today to block the transfer of the US’s control over IANA to ICANN. Here’s a link to the plaintiffs’ complaint and request for declar...
https://www.discourse.net/2016/09/why-the-attempt-to-enjoin-the-iana-transfer-is-baseless/
Deja vu all over again? Basically, ICANN is up to its bad old tricks to escape accountability. It hates that stuff. The problem is getting so bad that heresy is being spoken, So the choice being ...
https://www.discourse.net/2015/09/high-noon-at-icanns-accountability-gulch/
Must read: Kieren McCarthy, ICANN’s leaving the nest, so when will it grow up? The org that will run the internet still acts like a teenager. Protected by its important father, the US governmen...
https://www.discourse.net/2015/06/icann-is-up-to-its-old-tricks/
ICANN staff are trying to sabotage the IANA transition process in order to maintain ICANN’s monopoly over the DNS in perpetuity, reports Milton Mueller in ICANN wants an IANA functions monopoly...
https://www.discourse.net/2015/04/plus-a-change-icann-edition/
This doesn’t happen very often — well, ever, actually — a staff writer on the Wall Street Journal Editorial page just quoted favorably from one of my articles. Lest the quote make me sound ...
https://www.discourse.net/2014/03/quoted-on-wsj-editorial-page/
I was interviewed on the Takeaway recently, and they played the sequence today. The subject was ICANN’s expansion of the gTLD space. The other speaker was Cyrus Namazi, vice president of Domain...
Harold Feld is always worth reading. Usually he posts on telecoms; today he has a great read on the issues surrounding the application to ICANN for .kosher. Surprisingly, the issues include the r...