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. Broadly, the email provides, in some detail, this person’s concerns about an influx of management at the domain name system overseer ICANN. It [...] Continue reading →

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. Broadly, the email provides, in some detail, this person’s concerns about an influx of management at the domain name system overseer ICANN. It [...] Continue reading →

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 – yes nearly a decade ago – it is called “Domain scam merchants get legs sucked by toothless OFT” and [...] Continue reading →

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 – yes nearly a decade ago – it is called “Domain scam merchants get legs sucked by toothless OFT” and [...] Continue reading →

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 launch of the new gTLD program last week to cover the other big issue – actual governance of the [...] Continue reading →

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 launch of the new gTLD program last week to cover the other big issue – actual governance of the [...] Continue reading →

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: What ICANN is doing wrong. I wrote a lengthy response to Stephane’s post, but for some reason it [...] Continue reading →