U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today, in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, raised numerous …
The Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) – which represents all the EU’s communications regulators – has published net neutrality guidelines clarifying how telecom companies should treat the data they handle, months after a law concerning the matter was published. In the past, apps and other online services could, in theory, pay more to …
Dot Registry LLC, A Kansas company which applied for the gTLDs .llc, .llp, and .inc as a “Community” applicant and the second new gTLD winner in the ICANN Independent Review process IRP (Dot Registry, LLC v. ICANN (.INC/.LLC/.LLP)) has filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in support of Appellee .Africa Applicant DCA Trust. Dot Registry, LLC submits …
Sophia Bekele the Founder of DCA Trust has joined other voices to advance her long held advice that IANA transition should not be privatized to the interest of the very few. Writing yesterday on The Hill, Bekele says: What I do not agree is when public policy positions are manipulated to serve the few. I …
Rick Manning has released a statement on behalf of Americans for Limited Government that National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) performed no antitrust analysis even as it proceeded with the process to create an independent body to take over IANA oversight responsibilities that will cede the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the Internet …
“At no time until after it had rejected DCA’s application, did ICANN assert that the AUC had properly “withdrawn” its endorsement. – DCA Geographic new gTLDs in the ICANN application round were required to have endorsements of upto 60% from counties in the applying region. Many applications in the new gTLD program were therefore …
.Africa litigation is due for a show down in the appeals court after DCA Trust the appellee, filed its Appellate Answering Brief on August 19, 2016 in reply to ICANN’s amended its notice of appeal and also appeals the U.S. District Court’s Order entered on June 20, 2016 (ECF No. 113). The case is has …
Afilias has written ICANN asking that it disqualify Nu Dot Co’s $135 million winning bid for .Web, the company also asked ICANN to conduct an investigation, and has also filed a complaint with the Ombudsman. Afilias is reacting following last weeks amended lawsuit by Donuts’ filed after unsuccessfully seeking stop the auction of .Web gTLD …
Twenty-five advocacy groups that comprise TechFreedom, Heritage Action for America and Taxpayers Protection Alliance have writen a letter demanding that the Commerce Department to hold off on plans to transition its control over the body that governs internet domain names ICANN. But the NTIA shows no signs of halting plans to end its oversight of …
Donuts has amended its lawsuit against ICANN and demands $22.5 million for the .Web domain. This is Donut’s continuing legal battle with ICANN. The amended complaint (pdf) is filed in the federal district court in California. Last week, the auction for .web, which closed for a record $135 million, the company had attempted to stop …
