ICANN

The scariest thing I’ve seen in a long time

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

Thomas Nachbar of the University of Virginia School of Law writes in "Why We Can’t Disconnect Russia From the Internet" how he would really like to do so — and more: In the heady early days of the internet, the…

Some very good news from Maarten…

Dan Knauss

November 6, 2020

Some very good news from Maarten Botterman, ICANN's Board Chair: ICANN has voted to reject the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations,…

Not everyone is happy that ICANN…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2020

Not everyone is happy that ICANN has decided to block the sale of the .org TLD and Public Interest Registry (PIR), but those in the not-for-profit community likely agree it "is reasonable, and the right thing to do." 😅 The…

Automattic has won the rights to manage .blog

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Automattic has won the rights to manage the gTLD .blog, one of the most sought after generic top level domain extensions to date. They paid "about $19M" for the privilege, according to Matt Mullenweg's blog post (which he has since…