New gTLD Auctions and Potential Unintended Consequences (Featured Blog)
Auctions will play a critical role in ICANN's new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) process, the only question is whether they reinforce ICANN's position as a steward of a global public resource, or...
View ArticleNew gTLDs and Children (Featured Blog)
At first blush most are unlikely to see the relationship between new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) and children. However, as a father and someone that has worked with approximately 50% of all new...
View ArticleICANN's New gTLD Double Standard? (Featured Blog)
Over the last two days I have sat in a room and watched a rather interesting dynamic unfold between the ICANN Board and its Government Advisory Committee (GAC). While I remain optimistic of there being...
View ArticleInquiring About the "Unthinkable" (Featured Blog)
There has been no shortage of speculation within the ICANN community regarding the continued show down between the ICANN Board and its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) over new generic Top-Level...
View ArticleGAC New gTLD No Fly Zone (Featured Blog)
I have struggled over the past couple of weeks to come up with a metaphor to succinctly describe the standoff between the ICANN Board and the ICANN Government Advisory Committee (GAC) over the new...
View ArticleStill Missing in Action (Featured Blog)
After wading through the various IANA Notice of Inquiry (NOI) submissions I thought I would take a break and do a secondary review of the recently concluded ICANN regional meeting in San Francisco. In...
View ArticleA Phased Array Early Warning System (Featured Blog)
The following is a proposal for an "Early Warning" system to resolve one of the remaining impasses between the ICANN Board and the ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) as identified in the GAC...
View ArticleBringing a Responsible Closure to the gTLD Implement Process (Featured Blog)
Last Friday ICANN released an updated new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Applicant Guidebook that appears to have taken a number of positive steps toward closing the divide between the ICANN Board and...
View ArticleWhat ICANN Can Learn from Humpty Dumpty (Featured Blog)
I have been an active participant in the ICANN "grand experiment" from the beginning. An experiment in which a private sector led organization was entrusted by the Internet community and governments to...
View ArticleEnsuring Last Minute GAC Safeguards (Featured Blog)
In light of some changes contained in the most recent Applicant Guidebook as well as some of the proposed contractual provisions contained in the recent IANA Statement of Work, there is a potential...
View ArticleBring a Responsible Closure to the New gTLD Process - The Home Stretch...
Over the course of the last year, the ICANN Board and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) have constructively worked through a long list of their differences contained in the GAC scorecard. As we...
View ArticleICANN Hubris Knows No Ends (Featured Blog)
Despite all signs pointing to a launch of the new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) program in Singapore, it seems like ICANN could not help poking the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) in the eye...
View ArticleInconsistencies in ICANN New TLD Application Fees (Featured Blog)
In preparation for Monday's Joint Applicant Support (JAS) Working Group call, I spent some time reviewing various documents in connection with what are ICANN's actual costs in reviewing top-level...
View ArticleIANA Checkmate - Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice Shame on Me...
In connection with the recent publication of the IANA RFP, there have been some commenters that have proclaimed that removing the requirement of the Contractor to document the consensus of relevant...
View ArticleThe Death of TLD Front Running (Featured Blog)
In an article published over two years ago, I cited a disturbing trend of third parties seeking to obtain national trademark registrations in an apparent attempt to game ICANN's new gTLD process. While...
View ArticleNew gTLD Auctions and Potential Unintended Consequences (Featured Blog)
Auctions will play a critical role in ICANN's new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) process, the only question is whether they reinforce ICANN's position as a steward of a global public resource, or...
View ArticleNew gTLDs and Children (Featured Blog)
At first blush most are unlikely to see the relationship between new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) and children. However, as a father and someone that has worked with approximately 50% of all new...
View ArticleICANN's New gTLD Double Standard? (Featured Blog)
Over the last two days I have sat in a room and watched a rather interesting dynamic unfold between the ICANN Board and its Government Advisory Committee (GAC). While I remain optimistic of there being...
View ArticleInquiring About the "Unthinkable" (Featured Blog)
There has been no shortage of speculation within the ICANN community regarding the continued show down between the ICANN Board and its Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) over new generic Top-Level...
View ArticleGAC New gTLD No Fly Zone (Featured Blog)
I have struggled over the past couple of weeks to come up with a metaphor to succinctly describe the standoff between the ICANN Board and the ICANN Government Advisory Committee (GAC) over the new...
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