ICANN's New Commitment to Transparency Arrives Via Secret Process
On September 30th, 2009 with 1 comments
ehasbrouck writes "ICANN has announced, with great fanfare, a new Affirmation...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations , The Big Picture

NeuStar Wins .US Contract Renewal
On November 12th, 2007 with 0 comments
dmehus writes "The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information...
Section: Main > Country-Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) , USA Goverment Relations

TM Interests Create New Lobby Group to Fight DN 'Tasting' and 'Kiting'
On July 30th, 2007 with 0 comments
Meet The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, a new trade association with a...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations , Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)

ICANN Bid for Independent Status Gets Cool Reception
On March 31st, 2007 with 25 comments
ICANN's new President's Strategy Committee Report makes public for the first...
Section: Main > ICANN Staff and Structure , USA Goverment Relations

US Government
On March 30th, 2007 with 0 comments
Heise online reports that the US government says it must have the master key...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations , Security

ICANN is Looking for a Flag of Convenience
On October 3rd, 2006 with 0 comments
ehasbrouck writes "ICANN is considering (in a bottom-up consensus development...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Commerce and ICANN: "Dramatic change?"
On October 1st, 2006 with 1 comments
The Internet Governance Project analyzes the new ICANN-Commerce Department...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Twomey on Congress independent review
On September 23rd, 2006 with 1 comments
[Headline fixed 27 Sept.] ehasbrouck writes "Kieren McCarthy, journalist and...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Beginning of the End of US Control of the Root?
On July 20th, 2006 with 4 comments
The Internet Governance Project is reporting that former Commerce Dept....
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

NTIA still accepting comments on "DNS Transition"
On July 13th, 2006 with 1 comments
ehasbrouck writes "NTIA is still catching up with posting what they told me are...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

IGP Campaign Irritates NTIA
On June 30th, 2006 with 3 comments
Over a week ago, word reached me that the NTIA - the branch of the U.S....
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Did DoC Use the IANA Contract to Convince ICANN to Nix .XXX?
On June 25th, 2006 with 1 comments
ICM Registry has issued a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Send a Message to NTIA
On June 13th, 2006 with 2 comments
The Internet Governance Project is is urging Internet users everywhere, but...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Statements to .COM Hearing
On June 7th, 2006 with 4 comments
Karl Auerbach's prepared testimony is online. And, CFIT writes Today, CFIT...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

House Committee to Hold Hearing on .com Deal
On June 1st, 2006 with 1 comments
Via CFIT, news that the House Committee on Small Business will hold a hearing...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

ICANN Nix on XXX (9-5)
On May 10th, 2006 with 4 comments
In a characteristically open and transparent meeting (i.e. a secret one), ICANN...
Section: Main > gTLDs hoping to enter the legacy root , USA Goverment Relations

U.S. Commerce Department Continues to Intervene in ICANN
On March 26th, 2006 with 1 comments
ICM Registry, the proposer of the .xxx top-level domain for adult content, went...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Red-State Democrats use ICANN to Pose
On March 17th, 2006 with 0 comments
Two Democrat Senators from conservative states (Montana and Arkansas) have...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

US Requests Info From Folks Who'd Like to Be IANA
On February 23rd, 2006 with 10 comments
This is a potentially major development: the US Government has issued a notice...
Section: Main > IANA , USA Goverment Relations

US Senator Fires Shot at WSIS
On October 19th, 2005 with 26 comments
Declan McCullagh, CNET News, Senator: Keep U.N. away from the Internet. A new...
Section: Main > WSIS , USA Goverment Relations

Statement on USG .xxx Intervention Gains Support
On August 28th, 2005 with 100 comments
Responding to the .xxx intervention by the US Commerce Department, the Internet...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

The DoC and XXX
On August 22nd, 2005 with 72 comments
jberryhill writes "What are we to make of a Commerce Department that provides...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Obscenity on the Internet
On August 15th, 2005 with 23 comments
For those of you who hate ICANN, the flap over the "recall" of the .xxx domain...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

We're back
On July 4th, 2005 with 1 comments
As I expect you noticed, ICANNWatch had some technical difficulties in the...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

kids.us Playground Nearly Deserted
On June 8th, 2005 with 8 comments
fnord writes "Two years after the USG mandated childsafe second level domain...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations , The Big Picture

Secret, Closed WHOIS Meeting Excludes Privacy Advocates
On May 20th, 2005 with 70 comments
Today (Friday, May 20) a secret meeting is taking place in Washington DC. WHOIS...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

NTIA to unmask anon .USians
On March 4th, 2005 with 4 comments
WiReD News reports that the NTIA, whose disengaged approach to matters...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

US Government Fights User Privacy in DNS - Again
On February 10th, 2005 with 8 comments
Many registrars have gotten complacent about reforming the Whois-Privacy...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

Twomey Says ICANN will go Private in 2006
On November 16th, 2004 with 4 comments
An Australian news source claims that ICANN CEO Paul Twomey has "warned off the...
Section: Main > USA Goverment Relations

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