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I’ve just noticed that the US government has posted the agenda for its meeting on Wednesday where its contract with ICANN - and hence the top level of Internet governance - will be discussed. I was planning to go to Washington but I’ve too much on my plate, so I’m hoping the webcast will […]

I’ve just done a quick story about the 74,000 .eu domains that EURid has suspended and the 400 registrars it is suing.
First of all, thanks to John McCormac who sent me an email earlier today pointing it out with a link to his blog with more info. EURid, I discovered soon after, had stuck […]

If I ever end up editing a features section or a magazine, the first thing I will do is institute a new rule which I will then follow with absolute ruthlessness for the benefit of the publication, its readers, writers and the media as a whole. The rule is this:
Any writer that uses the […]

Tom Cruise has, unsurprisingly, won TomCruise.com from WIPO. And, unsurprisingly, he won it off Jeff Burgar who is notorious for having registered hundreds of celebrities names back in 1996 and used them to redirect to his Celebrity1000.com website.
Jeff sometimes fights these cases, sometimes not. This time he did and he exposed, yet again, how […]

At the conclusion of the WSIS process - where the world’s governments, non-governmental organisations, businesses and so on discussed how to use the Internet to better the lot of everyone on the planet - there was a sense of irritation and disappointment that many issues had been lost amid the power struggle for control […]

Less than a week after 87 percent of Net experts went out of their way to tell the US government that it needs to internationalise its role as overall authority for the Internet root, another shot has been fired over its boughs by two insiders.
A paper [pdf] put out by Becky Burr and Marilyn […]

Steven Forrest - the hopelessly biased blogger of Free2Innovate (aka Free2Fabricate) - has been outed as Bill Hobbs, a right-wing political blogger who receives payment for anonymously pushing corporate lines.
It’s long been known that Steven Forrest is a pseudonym and it has been widely assumed he was in the pay of VeriSign for the […]

I have finally finished my analysis of the 632 comments sent to the NTIA following its Notice of Inquiry over the continued role of ICANN as Internet overseer, and it’s going to come as a shock to the US government.
A remarkable 87.3 percent of comments that discussed the USG’s role said it should transition […]

[I’m getting a lot of hits on this page because of the recent report from John Stevens, out on 14 December 2006. It was a three-year investigation directly into the question over whether Diana’s death was a conspiracy. He concluded firmly that Diana’s death was no more than a “tragic accident”. You can download […]

Channel 4 news is doing an Internet special package and I got a call from one of the people behind it asking me for some broad advice.
They were interviewing Esther Dyson and also some French bloke who, I understand, is behind the French-funded Google hopeful, Quaero. So I pointed him in the right direction […]