Magaziner on ICANN

The Washington Post reports about statements former presidential adviser Ira Magaziner made on ICANN during a book forum on Milton Mueller’s Ruling the Root today: According to the article, Magaziner would disapprove of a plan that abandoned democ…

The Washington Post reports about statements former presidential adviser Ira Magaziner made on ICANN during a book forum on Milton Mueller’s Ruling the Root today: According to the article, Magaziner would disapprove of a plan that abandoned democratic involvement from individuals and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Remarks made by ICANN’s first CEO Mike Roberts at the same event are also available.

Edelman on .cc, .ws, .tv.

Harvard’s Ben Edelman has done another analysis. This time, he has looked at Registrations in Open ccTLDs, in order to quantify the domains’ size, usage, and registration patterns. His findings include substantial defensive registrations, and subs…

Harvard’s Ben Edelman has done another analysis. This time, he has looked at Registrations in Open ccTLDs, in order to quantify the domains’ size, usage, and registration patterns. His findings include substantial defensive registrations, and substantial cybersquatting. Some discussion of this is going on at ICANNwatch.

Memo to self: Use news.google.com more frequently.

Did you ask Google for ICANN news today? I only do that unregularly, but repeatedly find the results quite helpful. For instance if anyone wonders where all the contributions to ICANN’s WLS public forum and the signatures to the anti-WLS petition …

Did you ask Google for ICANN news today? I only do that unregularly, but repeatedly find the results quite helpful. For instance if anyone wonders where all the contributions to ICANN’s WLS public forum and the signatures to the anti-WLS petition come from, this article from The Register may be one source.

icannatlarge.com elections.

The folks at icannatlarge.com are going to vote on a supervisory panel with a 12 months mandate. The deadline for nominations and voter registration will expire tomorrow at 24:00 UTC. The deadline for nomination acceptances will end on Tuesday, 12…

The folks at icannatlarge.com are going to vote on a supervisory panel with a 12 months mandate. The deadline for nominations and voter registration will expire tomorrow at 24:00 UTC. The deadline for nomination acceptances will end on Tuesday, 12:00 UTC. The vote itself is going to take place from July 28 to August 4.

WHOIS Task Force Report available for public comment.

The WHOIS Task Force’s final report is available for public comment at the DNSO web site. Comments should be sent to

The WHOIS Task Force’s final report is available for public comment at the DNSO web site. Comments should be sent to <comments-whois@dnso.org>. The incoming comments are, of course, archived.

Some Notes on Reforming the General Assembly.

Alexander Svensson and myself have produced some bullet points on reforming the General Assembly. In short, we don’t believe that the Names Council’s approach that the GA should be restricted to cross-constituency discussions is the right approach.

Alexander Svensson and myself have produced some bullet points on reforming the General Assembly. In short, we don’t believe that the Names Council’s approach that the GA should be restricted to cross-constituency discussions is the right approach.

Names Council minutes posted.

The minutes for the Names Council’s call on July 11 have been posted to the Council’s mailing list. They will be up for adoption at the next teleconference on July 24, and may be subject to corrections.

The minutes for the Names Council’s call on July 11 have been posted to the Council’s mailing list. They will be up for adoption at the next teleconference on July 24, and may be subject to corrections.

Mouhamet Diop to join ICANN’s Board.

Alexander Svensson reports that Mouhamet Diop has been elected to ICANN’s board by the Address Supporting Organization. Diop will replace Rob Blokzijl on the board.

Alexander Svensson reports that Mouhamet Diop has been elected to ICANN’s board by the Address Supporting Organization. Diop will replace Rob Blokzijl on the board.

Harold Feld on the relationship between ICANN board and DNSO.

Harold Feld, who represents the NCDNHC on the Names Council, has written (as part of a discussion with ICANN board member Jonathan Cohen) an excellent analysis of the respective roles the Board and the DNSO are going to take in the reformed ICANN….

Harold Feld, who represents the NCDNHC on the Names Council, has written (as part of a discussion with ICANN board member Jonathan Cohen) an excellent analysis of the respective roles the Board and the DNSO are going to take in the reformed ICANN. Warning: Long!

Names Council recording available.

The recording from today’s names council teleconference is available. Agenda item 5, ICANN and names council reform, only took about 5 minutes of the conference, so there’s not much new on that topic. For the rest, please see Alexander’s notes.

The recording from today’s names council teleconference is available. Agenda item 5, ICANN and names council reform, only took about 5 minutes of the conference, so there’s not much new on that topic. For the rest, please see Alexander’s notes.