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One of the Net’s biggest blogging sites - Blogger.com, and its hosting domain blogspot.com - home to hundreds of thousands of blogs, and owned by Google, is down, presenting visitors with nothing but an “Internal server error” 500 message.
There have occasionally been issues with a number of blogging services, particularly Blogware, as companies have had […]

So Nominet held a big meeting in London on Monday covering the new Internet Governance Forum that will meet for the first time at the end of this month in Athens.

In some ways, it was a sort-of mini IGF in that it took the same free-ranging panel approach and that it explictly held two panels […]

There is a big meeting on the future of the Internet in London tomorrow, run by Nominet, where I will be acting as the “chief blogger”. As such, I need your help.
In fact, I am the official chief blogger for the Internet Governance Forum itself in Athens at the end of this month. That basically […]

I’m currently in San Diego finishing up my research on the Sex.com book. And I figured that while on this side of the world, I would take up an invitiation to go see ICANN at its Los Angeles headquarters in Marina Del Rey.

I wanted to visit various houses that have been lived in by the […]

I’ve written two pieces for The Register over the new ICANN contract with the US government, and the Board election shambles at Nominet.

In a nutshell: ICANN is taking the chance to escape US control seriously; everyone remains annoyed with the US administration’s failure to actually do anything except give easily breakable assurances (I am pretty […]