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Home :: ICANN 26 Jun 2010 The .XXX fiasco is almost over ICANN At Friday's meeting of the ICANN board in Brussels, they voted, probably for the last time, to approve the 2004 application for the .XXX domain. Purely on the merits, there is of course no need for a top level domain for porn. This isn't about the merits, this is about whether ICANN follows its own rules. Despite overheated press reports, .XXX will not make porn any more available online than it already is (how could it?), there is no chance of all porn being forced into .XXX (that's a non-starter under US law), and .XXX will have no effect on the net other than perhaps being a place to put legal but socially marginal porn far away from any accidental visitors. See more ... posted at: 01:50 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/xxxok.trackback 22 May 2010 Verisign leaves the security certificate business ICANN Earlier this week in a press release, Verisign said that they are selling their SSL certificate business to Symantec. Verisign is the dominant player in this market, having absorbed competitor Thawte in 1999, and Geotrust in 2006. Three years ago, when Verisign decided to divest its non-core businesses, they kept the certificate business. So what's changed? See more ... posted at: 01:01 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/vrsnssl.trackback 08 May 2010 The real issue about ICANN and .XXX ICANN Way back in 2004, ICANN invited applications for a round of new TLDs. They got quite a few. Some were uncontroversial, such as .JOBS for the HR industry. Some were uncontroversial but took a long time, such as .POST which took five years of negotiation, entirely due to the legal peculiarities of the registry being part of the UN. But one was really controversial, .XXX. By 2005, the applicant, ICM registry, had satisfied all the criteria that ICANN set out in the 2004 round to get .XXX approved, and ICANN has been stalling them ever since, including an ICANN board vote against approval in 2007. Most recently, ICM used a reconsideration process specified in ICANN's bylaws to review the board's actions, and the report not surprisingly said that ICM had followed all the rules, and the board had not. Before discussing what the issue with .XXX is, here are some things that the issue isn't. See more ... posted at: 01:30 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/dotxxx.trackback 16 Feb 2010 Looking for Jefferson's Moose, but not finding it ICANN Law and policy professor David Post's book In Search of Jefferson's Moose looks at the growth of the Internet, using some aspects of the early history of the American republic as a metaphor. It received a lot of positive reviews when it came out last year. I read it, and was surprised to find that the reviews all missed a critical detail: most of what he says about the Internet is just plain factually wrong, which discredits all his conclusions. You can read my full review here with the dismaying details. posted at: 19:26 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/moose.trackback 01 Jan 2010 Google Loses Another Domain Name Dispute ICANN For the benefit of trademark owners, ICANN has something called the UDRP (Uniform Dispute Resolution Process) that allows the owner to file a complaint against an allegedly infringing domain name, to be resolved by one of a small set of arbitrators. About 90% of UDRP cases that proceeed to a decision are decided in favor of the complainant; opnions differ as to whether that's because of the merit of the complaints or the institutional bias of the arbitrators. Google files lots of UDRP complaints. One arbitrator is the World International Property Organization in Geneva. In 2009 they decided all of their Google cases in Google's favor: googlemapsargentina.com, googleinstores.com, adsgoogle.net, google4people.net, googblog.com, mygooglemoney.com, and googlehrd.com. See more ... posted at: 22:51 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/groovle.trackback

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