ICANN is set to reject a plea for it to reconsider its decision to allow Donuts to buy Afilias last December.
Its Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee recently threw out a Request for Reconsideration filed by Dot Hotel and Domain Venture Partners, part of a multi-pronged assault on the outcome of the .hotel gTLD contention set.
The RfR was “summarily dismissed”, an infrequently used way of disposing of such requests without considering their merits. BAMC concluded that the requestors had failed to sufficiently state how they’d been harmed by ICANN’s decision, and therefore lacked standing.
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By exploiting this loophole, it’s not clear whether the board actually voted on the deal, and ICANN was not obliged by its bylaws to publish a rationale for the decision.
But BAMC, acting on the advice of ICANN’s lawyers, decided that the statements of alleged harm were too vague or seemed to rely on potential future harms.
DVP and Dot Hotel are also party to a lawsuit and an Independent Review Process case against ICANN related to .hotel.
A Documentary Information Disclosure Request related to the Afilias acquisition was also thrown out in March.
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Its Board Accountability Mechanisms Committee recently threw out a Request for Reconsideration filed by Dot Hotel and Domain Venture Partners, part of a multi-pronged assault on the outcome of the .hotel gTLD contention set.
The RfR was “summarily dismissed”, an infrequently used way of disposing of such requests without considering their merits. BAMC concluded that the requestors had failed to sufficiently state how they’d been harmed by ICANN’s decision, and therefore lacked standing.
....
By exploiting this loophole, it’s not clear whether the board actually voted on the deal, and ICANN was not obliged by its bylaws to publish a rationale for the decision.
But BAMC, acting on the advice of ICANN’s lawyers, decided that the statements of alleged harm were too vague or seemed to rely on potential future harms.
DVP and Dot Hotel are also party to a lawsuit and an Independent Review Process case against ICANN related to .hotel.
A Documentary Information Disclosure Request related to the Afilias acquisition was also thrown out in March.
read more (domainincite)
