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On Friday, the ICANN Board approved some controversial renewal contracts for the .biz, .info and .org top-level Internet domains.
In a press conference a few hours later, chairman Vint Cerf urged the reporters to read the transcript of the discussion. That transcript isn’t up yet but I figured that Cerf was right about listening to [...]

I have gathered a lot more information on what has happened with the Sex.com case, with Stephen Cohen released, and the attempted assassination attempt on his Mexican lawyer.
The big question is whether Cohen will turn up to court in February, as he has been ordered to. There is absolutely no way in hell he will [...]

Dammit, I’ve been so caught up with other work that I forgot about the December hearing of Sex.com thief Stephen Cohen – the first in six months after nearly two years in jail for Cohen.
It was always on the cards because of the strange formation of the law which meant that Judge Ware had to [...]

I’m just watching the webcast of the ICANN open forum due to start in a second at Sao Paulo and the techies are playing Patti La Belle.
It’s no mistake, and Patti has a few things she wants to share with conference attendees from ICANN’s perspective. “Together we will live in paradise,” she explains, [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time recently building and running online participation websites – or, in English, trying to get people on the Internet learning about and interacting with physical meetings.
Both have been for Internet organisations, which should theoretically make things easier. The first was the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Athens in early [...]

[I just posted this on the ICANN Participation website - and realised maybe I should have only posted it here on my own blog. So here is some daft repetition.]
The Nominating Committee of ICANN decides who will take the most important posts in the organisation.
It is also the most secretive organisation I believe I have [...]

So I was asked by ICANN’s “executive officer and vice president for corporate affairs” Paul Levins to do an online participation website for its meeting in São Paulo, starting officially on Monday.
Paul was at the IGF in Athens last month and saw the site that Jeremy and I had done for the IGF in order [...]

I am very tired so I have had to check what the new dotcom agreement – amended and then approved late yesterday by the US government’s Department of Commerce – actually says several times before I believed it.
Even now, I’m not so sure I have got it right. Which is worrying because I’ve just written [...]

Pipex is one of the UK’s biggest Internet companies and it appears to be on a determined route to self-destruction. I have already started shifted my domains and hosting deals.
I’m not a business journalist so I haven’t really bothered to follow Pipex’s business, although they do appear to be going for the bulk mainstream audience [...]