Hints and tips:
...Harding’s third example is the extraordinarily influential but little-known technocratic institution called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann)....
...It also mandated the creation of a domestic domain name system to store and control access to internet IP addresses, should the need arise to separate the state’s internet from Icann and the wider web....
...Icann, the apolitical, non-profit organisation that runs the internet’s “address book”, rightly refused the demand, arguing that such a move “would have devastating and permanent effects on the trust and...
...consequences for how the internet is regulated, such as working on behalf of the domain name company ICM Registry, which secured the first arbitration tribunal decision against de facto internet regulator Icann...
...This is as good a time as any to note that lizforleader.co.uk, Truss’s campaign website, was registered about a month beforehand on June 6 2022, according to Icann Lookup....
...Chuck that URL into registration data site ICANN, and you’ll also see the site was created on August 17....
...Icann’s rules allow it to reject the transfer of a top-level domain if it believes it would jeopardise that domain’s security and stability....
...Icann’s decision is due in the next few weeks. Ethos welcomes open discussion about PIR’s future....
...“It raises the question again: Who is ICANN accountable to?...
...The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the body with ultimate responsibility for internet addressing, could raise objections, but so far has not done so....
...Icann’s final decision is a disappointment for ACTO....
...But online arbiter the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) does list geographical names unusable as corporate web addresses. Amazon was not on that list....
...But Icann’s approach has big benefits....
...The internet authority Icann is being urged to block the sale of the .org domain registry for an undisclosed sum to a newly established private equity firm called Ethos Capital....
...The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) governing body sided with Amazon against a coalition of governments that had argued the name referred to their geographic region and should...
...Icann, the international body that oversees internet standards and governance, has spent years encouraging networking companies to switch to IPv6....
...Meanwhile, groups such as Icann continue to take measures to ensure that the roots of the net remain connected — whatever happens to the platforms....
...The deal was signed off by Icann, the global body that maintains internet protocols, which approved the takeover in June....
...means brands will now have to request access to such non-public personal data, and they will continue to be able to contact a domain’s registrant through an anonymised email or online form, m, according to Icann...
...co-chaired the US Department of Commerce Digital Economy Board of Advisors from its inception in March 2016 until August 2017, served on the UN High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, and the Icann...
...Icann has frequently been criticised for an alleged lack of accountability and opaque decision making, making its enhanced role controversial....
...Icann has “no role whatsoever in who gets domain names [or] what content is put on those websites.”...
...Icann has not always sided with American corporate interests....
...ICANN has announced complex proposals to disengage itself from US oversight, Samsung has suffered a stormy annual meeting, a $100m cyber heist has been foiled by a typo....
...“Some in Congress will ask whether we’ve protected Icann from governmental control, and we have,” said Steve DelBianco, head of US ecommerce trade association NetChoice and a member of one of the Icann working...
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