ICANN Appoints The National Arbitration Forum as First URS Provider

ICANN has appointed The National Arbitration Forum (FORUM) as the first to administer the Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS). According to ICANN , FORUM submitted an outstanding proposal demonstrating how it would meet all requirements presented in the RFI [PDF, 112 KB] and detailing its implementation approach. The company has a proven track record boasting resolution …

Opposition to .Africa: DCA insists the AU Commission to Withdraw its Support for UNIFORUM, but impossible!

. In what looks like the last letter that ICANN posted on its correspondence page from DotConnectAfrica, this letter of Opposition to .Africa was written to the African Union on June 2012, and addressed to Chief of Staff, H.E. Ambassador John Shinkaiye.The letter, also posted on DCA’s page states: . “We also request the African …

DotConnectAfrica implores the ICANN Board not to follow the GAC Early Warning Advice on .africa

“We believe that the governments were teleguided (or manipulated) into submitting these GAC Early Warning Advice, and as such, cannot really be considered as authentic in most cases. It is simply the outcome of a coordinated action which African country governments are being coerced to support, and we believe that actual governmental consultations with respective …

Early Warnings….of Corruption in ICANN’s GAC

The Czech Republic GAC representative also abused the Early Warnings process, using it to take sides in the contention over .GREEN. There are four applicants for .GREEN, and the Czech GAC representative declared that it liked one of the four applicants better than the others because it has a nice business plan that involves creating …

Bloomberg Asks Online Experts What To Expect From New gTLD’s, ICANN IN 2013

Bloomberg issued its Electronic Commerce & Law Report where they asked asked several dozen leading attorneys and online experts “for their views on the most important legal developments in online law during 2012 and on what policy areas they believed would be the most important to their practices in 2013 including our own Phil Corwin …