Responding to "The Case for Regulatory Capture of ICANN"
A recent investigative report reveals disturbing trend with amending legacy registry agreements This past Monday, as ICANN65 was beginning in Marrakesh, the technical review blog Review Signal...
View ArticleThe Question of Fairness in UDRP Decision-Making
In disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), parties should be able to rely on Panels delivering predictable, consistent, and legally reasoned decisions. In large...
View ArticleEU Court of Justice Ruling Could Result in Cutting Off Data Flows to US
EU holds an eight-hour-long hearing taking an extensive look at whether US surveillance practices break European data protection laws. "This case could potentially rupture the mechanisms that allow...
View ArticleGDPR Fine Enough or More Disclosure?
The UK cares about its citizens' privacy to the tune of a $229 million (US) fine of British Airways for a breach that disclosed information of approximately half a million customers. It's exciting — a...
View ArticleNew Zealand’s Domain Name Commission Wins Appeal in Lawsuit Against US...
New Zealand's Domain Name Commission (DNC) wins in court against the US company DomainTools for "illegally scrapping personal information" of .nz domain name owners. The US Court's decision means...
View ArticleSatisfying the Evidentiary Demands of the UDRP
It continues to surprise that some counsel in proceedings under the Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) are unaware or oblivious of its evidentiary demands, by which I mean they file and...
View ArticleDomain Name Registrar Isn't Liable for Counterfeit Goods – InvenTel v. GoDaddy
InvenTel makes security cams for cars. It is trying to crack down on Chinese counterfeiters. It brought a prior lawsuit against a wide range of defendants, including GoDaddy. InvenTel voluntarily...
View ArticleWIPO Becomes First Non-Chinese Entity to Provide Domain Dispute Resolution...
WIPO's Arbitration and Mediation Center earlier this month became the only non-Chinese entity to provide domain name dispute resolution services for the .CN and .中国 (China) country code Top-Level...
View ArticleRecovering Domain Names Lost to Fraudulent Transfer
Domain Names composed of generic terms and combinations — dictionary words, random letters, and short strings — have achieved ascending values in the secondary market. DNJournal.com (Ron Jackson)...
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51 CEOs Call on US Congress for Urgent Nationwide Data Privacy Law Overriding...
A letter, signed by 51 CEOs, was sent to U.S. House and Senate as well as leaders of other committees today urging policymakers to pass a comprehensive national data privacy law. The open letter was...
View ArticleIGF Best Practice Forums, an Opportunity to Bring Your Experience to the...
This post was co-authored by Anriette Esterhuysen and Wim Degezelle. Authors are Consultants with the IGF Secretariat, supporting the work of the 2019 Best Practice Forums. IGF Best Practice Forums, an...
View ArticleWhat is a Security Mechanism?
Orin Kerr recently blogged about a 9th Circuit decision that held that scraping a public web site (probably) doesn't violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Quoting the opinion (and I copied...
View ArticleInternet Consolidation at EuroDIG 2019: Questions in Need of Answers
On behalf of SIDN I was the focal point and moderator of the workshop on internet consolidation at EuroDIG in The Hague, June 2019. The following is the official report of the workshop I wrote and...
View ArticleUS Court Upholds FCC's Net Neutrality Repeal But Says States Can't Be Barred...
A U.S. court decision today determined net neutrality laws could return at the state level overruling Trump administration's effort to block states from passing their own net neutrality laws. The...
View ArticleDead Ends: The Achievement of Consensus in UDRP Jurisprudence
Like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) is consensus-driven; from the bottom up, not the top down. The result is a...
View ArticleChina to Require Face Scan for Internet Access and New Phone Numbers Starting...
Chinese citizens will be required to let telecommunications carriers to scan their faces in order to sign up for internet access or to get a new phone number. The new rule, which is planned to take...
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Domain Enforcement in a Post-GDPR World
Domain Enforcement – In a Post-GDPR World (A Complimentary Guide, Download Here)The implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and ICANN's conservative temporary policy, which...
View ArticleLessons From an E-Voting Debacle
Or why you want to stay with paper ballots There has been a significant focus over the past two years on the vulnerability and cyber threat risks faced for voting systems at the local level. That focus...
View ArticleChallenging Domain Names for Abusive Registration: UDRP and ACPA
There are predatory-domain name registrants, and there are registrants engaged in the legitimate business of acquiring, monetizing and reselling domain names. That there are more of the first than the...
View ArticleRussia Bans Sale of Smartphones, Computers and Other Devices Not...
Russia has passed a law banning the sale of certain devices such as smartphones, computers and smart televisions if not pre-installed with Russian software. The law will come into force in July 2020....
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