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Court and Continuity Risk
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AFRINIC Rebuilt Its Political Seats. The Record Stops at the Technical One.
A dissolved board, a chief executive contract that expired in November 2022, receivership from 2023, a board election halted in June 2025 and completed three months later, interim managers with a budget and an action plan, and a chief executive named to start on 1 January 2027.…
Story
LACNIC’s Board Candidates Split on Who Must Carry Out a Court-Ordered Block
Five candidates answered the same question about court-ordered blocking. Three point toward the content’s source or host; two make the order’s recipient, jurisdiction and chosen execution layer decisive.
History
Prodigy Moderated Its Board. A New York Judge Called It a Publisher.
Prodigy sold families on a cleaner online forum. In 1995, a New York trial judge treated that editorial hand as the reason the service could face publisher liability for a user’s post. Congress made the clash a case for changing the rules.
North America Institutional Trends
Ten Lines on a USPTO Form Can Complicate a Patent Carve-Out
The USPTO has made room for more references on four terminal-disclaimer forms. Filing gets easier. Selling a patent on its own still requires reading the common-ownership promise that follows it into the buyer’s hands.
Global Institutional Trends
You Bought the Trademark. The Seller Still Has Its Roots.
A Madrid international registration can change hands without its basic mark. For the first five years, the buyer may own the foreign rights while somebody else controls decisions that keep their foundation alive.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
He Closed the Company. The Bank Balance Stayed Behind.
A retiring owner can take home the desk lamp. Taking home the company's leftover cash requires better timing. An official British example turns £2,300 into £1,900, with a promise never to restore the company attached. Tidying up has acquired a surprisingly expensive sequel.
History
The Gifts Were Free. The Group’s Name Went to Court.
A friendly logo email helped FreecycleSunnyvale join a sharing network in 2003. Two years later, a trademark complaint shut its Yahoo! Group. The eventual court victory exposed how many different people held the keys.
Story
AFRINIC’s 2025 Audit Opinion Does Not Decide Its Litigation Risk
AFRINIC’s signed financial statements give members an unmodified opinion on the accounts while drawing particular attention to the directors’ judgment about ongoing legal proceedings. Those two statements answer different questions. Reading them together shows what the audit…
Story
When the Registry's Own Remedy Became the Risk: The AFRINIC–Cloud Innovation Enforcement Cycle
AFRINIC's contractual enforcement action against Cloud Innovation Ltd escalated over thirty months into injunctions, contempt warnings, an attachment over up to USD 50 million of registry funds and, on 12 September 2023, a Supreme Court order placing AFRINIC itself under…
Africa National Telecom
Safaricom’s Appeal Leaves Shares and Payment in Place
A Kenyan appellate court left a completed 20% effective-stake transfer in place while accelerating a challenge to the transaction. Its order preserves both the share registration and the consideration already paid, but resolves neither the merits nor the ultimate destination of…
History
A 25-Year Capacity Right Still Needed Maintenance: KPNQwest’s 2002 Bankruptcy
When KPN Telecom asked KPNQwest’s bankruptcy trustees to keep its contracted capacity operational, it was asking a question more exact than “who owns the cable?” A 2004 Dutch judgment treated the right to use specified capacity as a continuing obligation, with operations and…
Story
Two-Thirds, Not Unanimity: How the RIR Governance Document's Version 3 Rewrites Who Decides
The draft that would replace ICP-2 does not merely modernise twenty-five-year-old criteria for recognising Regional Internet Registries. Its Version 3 quietly redraws the voting arithmetic of recognition, derecognition and amendment — and those thresholds, not the prose around…
Story
The CTO Who Isn't There: Who Held Technology Control at AFRINIC While the Database Remembered a Role
Ask who the Chief Technology Officer of AFRINIC is, and the internet's own records give you two contradictory answers. The registry's current public staff roster lists departments, named engineers and heads of function — but no position titled Chief Technology Officer. Meanwhile…
Story
AFRINIC's Instrument Chain: What Each Deciding Body Actually Ordered, Granted or Refused
The public record on AFRINIC's receivership is full of titles — court judgments, board communiqués, ICANN letters, receiver notices. Titles are not authority. This article reads back through the recorded instruments of the AFRINIC saga and extracts what each one actually…
Afrinic SAGA
The Receiver Who Has Not Yet Left: Gowtamsingh Dabee's Control Surface at AFRINIC
A termination application filed in October 2025 was meant to end the court-appointed receivership of AFRINIC. A year later, the located public record shows no discharge order — and the receiver's consent is still being recorded on the registry's corporate acts.
Story
Durable or Reversible: A Ledger of AFRINIC's Rebuilt Governance, Control by Control
When the Supreme Court of Mauritius placed AfriNIC Ltd — the registry the internet world knows as AFRINIC — into receivership on 12 September 2023, the court's findings were stark: there was no quorate board and no chief executive at the organisation that allocates internet…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Fault by the entity: the 2,145-call ledger behind Optus's pooled $12 million penalty
Australia's communications regulator did not fine "Optus" for the November 2023 collapse that cut off emergency calls. It recorded 2,145 failed emergency calls against four named legal entities — and the distribution between them is the part of the record that a single…
Afrinic SAGA
Undischarged: what AFRINIC's instruments certify — and what they still await
Eleven months after the Receiver of AfriNIC Ltd asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to end the receivership he administers, the retrievable public record still shows no judgment granting or refusing that request. What the record does show — in the registry's own communiqués…
Story
The Exit That Stayed Undecided: AFRINIC's Receivership Endgame Is a Docket With No Disposition
Nine months after the Receiver of the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to end his own tenure, the public record still contains no judgment granting or refusing that relief — and the organisation's newest governance instruments…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
The controls that remain, and the word of the company: Optus Internet Pty Ltd and the durability test after two outages
Two Optus outages now frame every question about whether Australia's emergency-call chain can survive a single operator's bad day. The first, on 8 November 2023, ended in an accounting exercise: 2,145 failed emergency calls distributed by legal entity, twelve of them attributed…