Court: For the foregoing reasons, ICANN’s motion for a protective order is DENIED. The parties are to work out among themselves where to conduct the deposition. In the ongoing pretrial motions of the DCA vs ICANN lawsuit, DCA had requested ICANN to produce Mike Silber (“Silber”), an ICANN Board Director from South Africa who ICANN …
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 …
DotConnectAfrica Trust (DCA Trust) which was recently declared as the prevailing party in the DCA Trust Vs ICANN IRP seems to have disagreed with ICANN on the post-IRP solution to the dispute between the parties. The IRP Panel had unanimously ruled “that both the actions and inactions of the Board with respect to the application …
. A report tying the recent ICANN New gTLD Committee Board decision on new gTLD’s that were given a consensus objection by GAC in a report released in Beijing during the ICANN 46th meeting. . The said board members have been linked to a previous tussle that accused them of conflict of interest. The report …
DotConnectAfrica has received a GAC consensus advice on .africa through the ICANN GAC. The GAC early warnings which lead to a GAC advice has already been criticized for corruption and nepotism. This current one was also marred with irregularities and inconsistencies that have made GAC lose its credibility in the eyes of many internet governance participants and observers. DotConnectAfrica has survived all objections so far …
The new ICANN gTLD process has received quite unlikely request from an applicant for .africa string DotConnectAfrica which is headquartered in Mauritius, but has a strong base of representation in Kenya, Addis Ababa, California and the United Kingdom. DotConnectAfrica has applied to set up the registry in the Kenyan capital should ICANN delegate it to …
ICANN directors Mike Silber and Chris Disspain have updated their official statements of interest — used to identify potential conflicts on the board — after a complaint from a .africa applicant. The new SOI statement more clearly specifies the relationship between South African ccTLD policymaker ZADNA — for which Silber acts as treasurer — and …
ICANN directors Mike Silber and Chris Disspain have updated their official statements of interest — used to identify potential conflicts on the board — after a complaint from a .africa applicant. The new SOI statement more clearly specifies the relationship between South African ccTLD policymaker ZADNA — for which Silber acts as treasurer — and …
In a recent Blog by the Ombudsman Chris LaHatte while responding to DCA’s complaints of Conflict of interest against two board members Mike Silber and Chris Disspain . In his conclusions LaHatte states “I consider that no disqualifying conflict of interest, or indeed any conflict of interest at all,”. . He notes however that …