Nominet held a meeting over the IGF on Monday which has attracted a fair amount of attention, most of it revolving around Nitin Desai’s remarks at the end, picked up by the BBC. I have...
I've just got off the phone from an ICANN press conference with CEO Paul Twomey regarding the decision by ICANN to refuse the .xxx registry application. And it has done little but confirm my already...
The ICANN Board has voted to kill the .xxx registry. It was inevitable I suppose. The political pressure was intense. Most of it coming from the US administration. You only have to look at the...
There are three places on the ICANN Board that will open up in December when Hagen Hultzsch, Veni Markovski and Hualin Qian leave their positions. ICANN has just stuck up the official request for statements...
There's been a number of different of analogies for a new Bill being introduced to Parliament. The BBC has produced a programme called Tearing up the Magna Carta? A number of bloggers has drawn a...
Just got this: Virginia Congressman Rick Boucher has continued his letter-writing appeal over the dotcom contract ICANN has signed with VeriSign. Last month, before ICANN Board approval of the controversial deal, he wrote to Secretary...
The fight over the dotcom contract is escalating. I've just received a copy of a letter sent to Internet overseeing organisation ICANN from the company that runs Canada's .ca registry, CIRA. They've effectively cut all...
There’s a big, big fuss going on about pointed remarks that the Swiss prime minister made at the opening conference to the World Summit here. It is has a Swiss news site censored, and the...
What the hell is wrong with the US press? The mainstream press all over the world fundamentally fails to understand what the situation is with regard to the Internet and with Internet technology in general,...