The Internet’s Legitimacy Threat
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ICANN Is Violating Its Legal Agreements with the U.S. Government — Who’s Next?
In April, I published an article on CircleID, The Multistakeholder Moment of Truth: Will Stakeholders Hold ICANN Accountable?, pointing out that ICANN is violating its legal agreements with the U.S.
Multi-stakeholder Internet governance is captured and presumed dead
It’s time for a reset before it’s too late.
Does Former Utah Governor Mike Leavitt Really Want Improper Auction Proceeds From ICANN and Verisign?
The Feds and California’s Attorney General need to take a look at the redacted list of recipients in o.com auction.
Anticompetitive and Predatory Misconduct by ICANN and Contracted Parties Must End
On May 26, 2021, I submitted a complaint to ICANN’s Complaints Officer, Krista Papac.
Why Is Verisign Ignoring New Revenue?
Last month saw a much-anticipated decision handed down in the Independent Review Panel (IRP) proceeding examining the controversial 2016 auction for the .web generic top-level domain name registry (gTLD).
ICANN’s Tax Exemption Requires Updated Review
In September 2015, John Levine asked why ICANN should be considered a tax-exempt organization following the completion of the U.S.
Mistrust of ICANN Is Fully Vindicated
Recently, I have been reporting on a highly questionable auction scheme for a single domain name, o.com, which is currently being improperly warehoused by ICANN along with a number of other .com and .net domain names.
Leaked Documents Reveal Xi Jinping’s Communist Chinese Plan to Control the Internet’s Root
Yesterday, The Epoch Times reported on leaked internal Chinese government documents revealing that premier Xi Jinping has “personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global Internet, displacing the influential role of the United States.”
Is Recent NIST Letter on o.com a Bureaucratic Coup d’Etat?
Verisign recently informed ICANN that it had received a letter from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S.