due process

ICANN, the organization that regulates global domain name policy, and Verisign, the abusive monopolist that operates the .COM and .NET top-level domains, have quietly proposed enormous changes to global domain name policy in their recently published “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement...

ICANN, the organization that regulates global domain name policy, and Verisign, the abusive monopolist that operates the .COM and .NET top-level domains, have quietly proposed enormous changes to global domain name policy in their recently published “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement...

ICANN has a public comment period for the “Final Report from the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs“, which proposes to harm registrants’ rights, by making IGOs (integovernmental organizations like the UN) exempt from the mutual jurisdiction clause of the UDRP/URS. This would...

ICANN has a public comment period for the “Final Report from the EPDP on Specific Curative Rights Protections for IGOs“, which proposes to harm registrants’ rights, by making IGOs (integovernmental organizations like the UN) exempt from the mutual jurisdiction clause of the UDRP/URS. This would...

As part of the discussions around the locked domain names and registrar terms of service, the idea of a collective domainer-owned registrar came up. In order to not take the thread off-track, it was proposed that I should set up a thread for just that topic. The following comments offered by...

As part of the discussions around the locked domain names and registrar terms of service, the idea of a collective domainer-owned registrar came up. In order to not take the thread off-track, it was proposed that I should set up a thread for just that topic. The following comments offered by...

I just wrote an article demonstrating systematic bias in the UDRP, documenting how panelists mindlessly copy and paste text into their decisions: https://freespeech.com/2019/10/10/udrp-systematic-bias-as-panelists-mindlessly-copy-and-paste-text/ Panelists are not starting from a clean slate...

I just wrote an article demonstrating systematic bias in the UDRP, documenting how panelists mindlessly copy and paste text into their decisions: https://freespeech.com/2019/10/10/udrp-systematic-bias-as-panelists-mindlessly-copy-and-paste-text/ Panelists are not starting from a clean slate...

When it comes to resolving disputes between industry participants, I am a pragmatist. I will always seek an amicable resolution to a conflict before calling out industry thuggery. In this particular case, I take issue with how a client's domain is being handled -- a domain quarantine without...

When it comes to resolving disputes between industry participants, I am a pragmatist. I will always seek an amicable resolution to a conflict before calling out industry thuggery. In this particular case, I take issue with how a client's domain is being handled -- a domain quarantine without...