The Future of Europe's Fight Against Child Sexual Abuse
Like much of how the Internet is governed, the way we detect and remove child abuse material online began as an ad hoc set of private practices. In 1996, an early online child protection society posted...
View ArticleMultistakeholderism Is Working: A Short Series of Articles
I was in a conversation with a close friend the other day, you know the kind where you have been friends for so long that you have endured each other experimenting with changed politics, evolving...
View ArticleEnding U.S. Government Amnesia About Its Legacy Internet Registries is in the...
On July 2, 2002, Damien Cave published an interview on Salon.com with John Gilmore, "original 'cypherpunk' and all-around Internet supergeek," titled "It's time for ICANN to go." In this wide-ranging...
View ArticleIs ICANN Running a Racket?
On March 13, 2019, I published an article on CircleID, Portrait of a Single-Character Domain Name, that explored the proposed release and auction of o.com, a single-character .com domain name that was...
View ArticleICANN Must Release the Single-Character .com Hostages from the IANA...
Most of the single-character .com labels were initially registered in 1993 by Dr. Jon Postel while performing work pursuant to a contract with, and funded by, the U.S. government and are currently...
View ArticleIs ICANN Staff Misleading the Board Into Violating Contractual Obligations to...
Recently, I had time to reflect on various matters after the alternator in my vehicle decided that the middle of a mountain pass was the appropriate time and place to go to that great big pick-and-pull...
View ArticleTime of Registration in Determining Cybersquatting
While Panels under the UDRP and judges under the ACPA draw upon a similar body of principles in determining infringement — both mechanisms, after all, are crafted to combat cybersquatting — and though...
View ArticleAn Anti-Competitive .com Fait Accompli?
In a recent article, Is ICANN Staff Misleading the Board Into Violating Obligations to the U.S. Government, I wrote: The referenced Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is the vehicle by which the U.S....
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Decides that Compatible Software is Still Legal
Back in the 1980s, everyone used the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet on their PCs. In 1989, Borland released a competitor, Quattro Pro. It used the same menu commands as 1-2-3 so that users could import their...
View ArticleThe Insult and Injury of the U.S. Government's Failure to Enforce ICANN's...
Someone recently observed that many stakeholders have fallen victim to a "chilling effect" resulting from fear of retaliation by the rich and powerful bullies currently infecting the multistakeholder...
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Together for the Good of the Internet: eco Complaints Office Registers More...
For 25 years, the Complaints Office of eco — Association of the Internet Industry has been successfully combatting illegal content on the Internet. The 2020 report now available shows that the...
View ArticleFacebook's "Supreme Court" Has Implications for International Law
Last year, Facebook created its widely dubbed "Supreme Court" (officially the Oversight Board) in an effort to outsource some of the platform's most difficult content decisions. By all accounts,...
View ArticleMistrust of ICANN Is Fully Vindicated
Recently, I have been reporting on a highly questionable auction scheme for a single domain name, o.com, which is currently being improperly warehoused by ICANN along with a number of other .com and...
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Using IP Geolocation Data to Support Regulatory Compliance
Complying with strict data privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a must do. Violators can get penalized as much as €10 million or 2% of their annual turnover. This...
View ArticleAnticompetitive and Predatory Misconduct by ICANN and Contracted Parties Must...
On May 26, 2021, I submitted a complaint to ICANN's Complaints Officer, Krista Papac. In a nutshell, my complaint centers on ICANN's blatant violation of its Bylaws, specifically Section 2.2, named...
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