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As I noted recently in the context of the BBC inexplicably supporting the introduction of DRM into the HTML5 specification, openness lie...

I have been writing about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, since its birth in 1998 (see the ICANN entry on...

The Internet is under attack – but not, as politicians would have us believe, from hordes of cyber criminals , but from the politicians th...

ICANN has always been something of a disaster area, showing scant understanding of what the Internet really is, contemptuous of its users, ...

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I am sufficiently long in the Internet tooth to remember the blissful days before ICANN existed . I say blissful, because from where I sit ...

I've been tracking the goings-on at ICANN , which oversees domain names and many other crucial aspects of the Internet, for many years n...

Lawyers thrive on complication and ambiguity. Things don't get more complicated or ambiguous than in cyberspace - it's no coinciden...

I've been fairly hard on ICANN on this blog - hard but fair, given it's pretty appalling track record in terms of openness. But lo!...

Looks like I was overly pessimistic about the Spamhaus case : On 19 October 2006, United States District Court Judge Charles P. Kocoras, pr...

It looks like I was, er, wrong : ICANN has refused to pull the plug on Spamhaus. I'm impressed - and duly chastened.

The court case against Spamhaus is outrageous on plenty of levels: A lawsuit filed in an Illinois court by David Linhardt (aka e360 Insight...

I have been writing about the Internet since 1994, and about ICANN , the body that oversees the domain name system, since 1999. Unfortunate...