By Joseph Wright for BNA The article was first published by The Bureau of National Affairs, but has been reproduced from DotConnectAfrica Blog. Reproduced with permission from Electronic Commerce & Law Report, 21 ECLR 441 (March 30, 2016). Copyright 2016 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc (800-372-1033)). An applicant for the .africa top-level Internet …
On Monday, April 4th 2016, Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz along with James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have sent yet another pressing letter to ICANN seeking feedback about outgoing CEO Fadi Chehadé’s and ICANN’s relationship with the Chinese government and the planned transition away from U.S. government oversight of the Internet. …
ICANN Africa strategy has been ICANN’s biggest foray into Africa, laden with many goodies and plans that were mean to create more awareness about ICANN in Africa. In August 2012, this very strategy was announced by ICANN and after holding a meeting, involving Steve Crocker, Chairman of ICANN’s Board of Directors, ICANN’s CEO-Designate Fadi Chehadé …
DCA recently dismissed ICANN’s opposition to its preliminary injunction on delegation of .Africa as #HotAir, in a news report covered by the premier DomainNewsAfrica. On January 20, 2016, DCA Trust took ICANN to court over a disagreement with how ICANN processed its application, after DCA prevailed in the Independent Review Process (“IRP”) against ICANN in …
The .Africa new gTLD has passed through a bumpy road, and there seem to be no end in sight. I recently read the article by DomainMondo titled New gTLD AFRICA: DotConnectAfrica Trust vs ICANN, End of the Line? on posted March 21 , 2016. The article was well written and good analysis on the facts …
WASHINGTON, DC – Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced in February that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications Commission and the administration’s work to transition certain oversight functions of the Internet to multi-stakeholder governance. “The upcoming hearing with the FCC Commissioners will allow the committee to continue …
Global superpowers aren’t determined by how widely their .domain is used, but if they were, the world would look very different and so if domain names ruled the world, America wouldn’t be a superpower In order to show what that might look like, Nominet has created a new world map where the scale is based on each …
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board Chair Dr. Stephen D. Crocker today submitted to the U.S. Government a plan developed by the international Internet community that, if approved, will lead to global stewardship of some key technical Internet functions. The news was confirmed at a press conference finalizing the ICANN 55 meetings …
on March 05, 2013, a UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA – WESTERN DIVISION ruling has granted an Interim Relief for DotConnectAfrica by issuing a decision below that ICANN should hold off from delegating the .AFRICA top-level domain (TLD) for ZA Central Registry (ZACR). The Court ruled. DCA Trust has taken ICANN to task …
Following last week’s statement by Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz that ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé was misleading the U.S. Senate over Wuzhen Conference, the Senator to gether with Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) have written to the ICANN Chair Steve Crocker demanding a more accountable response to the Senate. Cruz has …