Topic
Registry Governance
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Who Could Authorise .AMAZON? From GAC Objection to Enforceable Safeguards and Root Delegation
The dispute over .AMAZON was not resolved by a single veto, judgement or bargain. It advanced only when distinct powers aligned: governments advised, an accountability panel identified defective decision-making, the ICANN Board changed programme status, negotiators converted…
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When a Registry Policy Became Browser Code: The .APP Contract, Delegation and HSTS Preload Chain
.APP did not become an HTTPS-enforced namespace through one decision by one institution. Its path ran through a governmental warning, an amended application, evaluation, a twelve-party auction, an ICANN contract, a root-zone change, a registry-to-registrar notice rule and…
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Who Could Stop the .ORG Sale? PIR, ICANN and the Legal Objects Behind the Ethos Capital Rejection
The proposed transfer of Public Interest Registry to an Ethos Capital affiliate drew petitions, government scrutiny and accountability challenges, but none operated as a freestanding veto. The deal failed because authority was divided among a private purchase agreement, corporate…
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Who Could Restore the Caps? Namecheap and the .ORG/.INFO Accountability Chain
The removal of historical wholesale price caps from the .ORG and .INFO registry agreements produced thousands of objections, a successful accountability challenge and a court-confirmed award, yet none of those events rewrote the contracts. The case shows why public participation…
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The Contract Clause That Stopped the .ORG Sale
ICANN did not stop the proposed Ethos Capital acquisition through a registrant vote, a court injunction or a change to the domain-name system. It used a prior-consent clause in Public Interest Registry’s registry agreements—an ex ante gate that public opposition could influence…
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A $135 Million Auction, a Funding Agreement and .WEB’s Ten-Year Wait
A US$135 million auction removed six rival .WEB applications from contention, but it did not determine who controlled the winning position, whether the funding arrangement complied with the 2012 rulebook, what independent review could actually remedy, or which company would…
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A .AFRICA Process Victory Without the String
DotConnectAfrica’s 2015 Independent Review Process victory established that ICANN’s Board had handled its .AFRICA application inconsistently with ICANN’s Articles and Bylaws. The Board then preserved the undelegated string and returned the application to evaluation. Neither the…
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How a 14-Point Score Eliminated Six .HOTEL Applicants
A single Community Priority Evaluation report did not award a registry or place `.HOTEL` in the DNS root. It did something narrower and, for six competitors, immediately decisive: it supplied the score that activated ICANN’s pre-adopted rule for ending their applications’ route…
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The .ECO Community That Became a Registry Right
Big Room’s 14-point Community Priority Evaluation did not establish ownership of environmentalism or place .ECO in the DNS root. It gave one community-based application priority inside a four-way contention set. Narrow review left that score intact; a later registry agreement and…
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When .us Withdrew the Proxy Option
A proxy service could publish its own contact details while keeping a customer’s identity in a confidential file. In .us, that arrangement collided with a federal registry contract interpreted to require the registry to hold and publicly display the actual holder’s data. The…
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A Hijacked Domain Put the Proxy Holder in the Control Chain
The Solid Host dispute exposed a narrow but durable governance problem: a privacy intermediary can deny that it is the registrar while still appearing as the registrant, holding the customer’s identity, evaluating a theft complaint and occupying a practical route to restoration.…
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Why Google Could Not Keep .SEARCH Closed
Google’s registry subsidiary applied to reserve a generic namespace for its own corporate group at a time when ICANN’s published rulebook did not expressly forbid that model. The application exposed a policy omission, and the decisive response came not from public comment…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
The .RU 2024 DNSSEC Rollover Failure Made Zone-Signing Verification an Accountability Test
A planned .RU DNSSEC zone-signing-key rollover in January 2024 exposed a narrow but serious accountability problem: redundant authoritative DNS cannot protect users when the shared signed-zone artifact is internally inconsistent.
Leaders
Nurani Nimpuno and the Operational Record Behind Internet Resource Coordination
Nurani Nimpuno and the Operational Record Behind Internet Resource Coordination intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
Leaders
Arnold Nipper and the DE-CIX Decision Ledger: From US Detours to Site-Selection Trade-offs
Arnold Nipper's record offers a view of Internet exchange operations through two decisions: first, replacing an expensive international traffic detour with direct interconnection in Frankfurt; later, selecting an exchange site under explicit carrier, financial, price, support…
Leaders
Mónica Aspe and AT&T Mexico's 5G Growth Under Spectrum-Cost Pressure
Mónica Aspe's public record at AT&T Mexico presents a narrow but consequential operating question: how can a mobile challenger keep expanding a running 5G network when recurring spectrum charges, capital intensity, and uncertain returns make each additional frequency commitment…
Leaders
Milton Kashiwakura and the 400G Core Decision Behind IX.br Sao Paulo
An Internet exchange does not become durable merely because its traffic graph rises. Milton Kashiwakura's documented role in a specific IX.br capacity request offers a more useful test: how an operator turns a visible constraint into an approved engineering change, performs a…
Leaders
Juan Carlos Duarte Dure and Paraguay's 5G Spectrum Allocation Trade-Off
Paraguay's 5G tender record presents a difficult infrastructure question in unusually concrete terms: how should a regulator compare direct licence revenue with operator investment commitments, social-connectivity obligations, deployment deadlines, and evidence that a network is…
Leaders
Flavio Luciani, Early Geofeed Implementation, and Measurable Internet Exchange Operations
Internet infrastructure becomes dependable through a sequence of small, testable decisions: where data is recorded, how it is discovered, what can authenticate it, how often it should be retrieved, and how operators measure the effects of change. Flavio Luciani's public record…
Leaders
Geoff Greening and Brooke Telecom: Financing Rural Fibre for Operational Continuity
Geoff Greening's public record at Brooke Telecom is unusually specific about the arithmetic behind rural connectivity. A cooperative report signed by Greening identifies two fibre projects, their construction periods, their public and cooperative funding, their route-length…