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Australia doubts ICANN is ready to run the internet

Comms Minister Malcolm Turnbull follows US lead on governance, with caveats Australia’s communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has endorsed USA’s decision to hand over core internet supervisory...

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US House of Representatives seek review of Obama plan to relinquish U.S....

Three Republican Congressmen have introduced a bill that would prevent the US government giving away from oversight of the DNS root zone. In the press release Rokita and Colleagues Seek Review of Obama...

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Corwin:NTIA’s response to ‘Freedom of Information Act’ requests on IANA...

By Philip S. Corwin, On March 27, 2014, shortly after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) March 14th announcement of its intent to transfer its counterparty status...

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Persist Until Something Happens (P.U.S.H) – A Clarion call for Africa the...

Themed “Standing on The Shoulders of Giants: Our History. Our Legacy. Our Destiny.”, The 2014 CUNY Young African Leadership Symposium (YALS) brought together 200+ African youth in the diaspora to...

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Apple, Google, other Tech companies ask Senate to pass NSA anti surveilance...

Apple, Google, and several other Internet and technology companies are in a race against the clock to get the Senate to approve a bill that will end the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Known as...

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Breaking: U.S. Government Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition

By Philip S. Corwin on CircleID: On the evening of Tuesday, September 9th, Congressional leaders unveiled a 1,603 page, $1.01 trillion FY 2015 appropriations bill to fund the U.S. government through...

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U.S. House of Representatives Votes ‘YES ‘Once Again to Deny IANA Transition...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted once again to deny funds to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to perform the transfer. The voting was done on 3rd June 2015...

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ICANN GAC new gTLD interference gets fresh Congressional attention

The ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) articulation and handling of several new top level domains has received under the ICANN new gTLD release has received a new critical but worrisome...

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Congress to ICANN: Approve .Amazon as proof of accountability, before IANA...

The co-chairs of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, Rep. Randy Forbes [R-VA4] and Rep. Suzan DelBene [D-WA1] have written to ICANN informing them that they need to approve Amazon’s application for...

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An unsupervised Post IANA-ICANN will be pressured by power hungry governments...

Sophia Bekele Internet expert and previous ICANN policy adviser,   has warned in her article that if, as has been argued by some other writers, governments want more power within the ICANN ecosystem,...

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US Senators Letter Questions GAO on whether Obama Administration has Power to...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman...

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Sens. Ted Cruz, Lankford, and Lee Raise New Concerns About ICANN’s...

Following last week’s statement by Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz that ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé was misleading the U.S. Senate over Wuzhen Conference, the Senator to gether with Sen. James...

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NTIA OKs IANA Stewardship Transition but Sen. Ted Cruz Team maintain it is...

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced yesterday that the IANA transition proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder...

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97 Tech Companies including Apple, Microsoft and Facebook fight travel ban in...

Silicon Valley companies are stepping a fight with the Trump administration. On Sunday night, technology giants Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter, Uber and many others filed a legal...

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50 organizations condemn DHS requirement to disclose social media passwords...

The Internet Society, along with 50 organizations and trade associations and nearly 90 individual experts have written a statement to express deep concerns over the proposal that U.S. Department of...

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.Africa domains Launch Begins, but litigation continues

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given dotAfrica the ahead to proceed with their launch plan after the domain was put in the root zone. According to ZACR NPC, the...

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