ICANN has been confronted with a new set of lawsuits invoking antitrust law. One such lawsuit, from Youporn.com operator Manwin Licensing, targets the XXX domain. It claims that ICANN and ICM registry conspired to force it to pay too much for defensive registrations under .XXX and that ICM has monopolized...
Guest blog Robin Gross, Chair of ICANN's Noncommercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) On November 15-16 2012, ICANN organized a meeting in Los Angeles to consider the implementation of the Trademark Clearinghouse for new top level domains. Pressure by trademark and business interests, however, expanded the scope of the meeting to consider...
In a sure sign that the winds of change are blowing in the addressing world, on November 9 it was announced that I was one of the 6 people elected to the Advisory Council (AC) of ARIN, the Internet address registry for the North American region. The AC mediates between...
From single-sign-on to federated systems to WHOIS data associated with Internet resources, countless individuals, business and government organizations have a stake in Internet identity information and its governance. A workshop on “Governing Identity on the Internet” will be held on Thursday, November 8, 2012 from 11:00-12:30 (local Baku time) in Conference...
IGP has succeeded in putting IPv4 markets firmly on the agenda of the Baku Internet Governance Forum. On the afternoon of the first day of the Forum, there will be a workshop on the topic What is the best response to IPv4 scarcity? Exploring a global transfer market for IPv4...
