news ICANN dishonesty documented and slammed in independent report

[carob]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/03/extraordinary_verdict_against_icann/

In an extraordinary judgment, the organization that hopes to take over running the top level of the internet later this year has been slammed by an independent review as at best incompetent and at worst deliberately mendacious.

The decision [PDF] by ICANN's Independent Review Panel (IRP) over the organization's decision to refuse "community" status for three applications covering business suffixes has exposed a level of double-dealing that many suspected occurred in the non-profit organization but has been difficult to prove.

The ICANN Board Governance Committee (BGC) in particular comes under fire for having repeatedly failed to carry out its duties.

Despite serious allegations being made against ICANN's staff and the "independent" evaluator it had selected – the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) – the panel found that the BGC did not carry out any investigation. Instead it had relied solely on material supplied by ICANN's legal team – the very people at the center of the complaints.

 

[carob]

Seriously big sums of money at stake, with no explanation of what ICANN plans to do with the cash it is accumulating from NgTLDs:

As to why ICANN's staff deliberately interfered in the evaluation of .inc, .llp and .llc and then went to such enormous lengths to try to cover it up, Jolles feels it has to do with the fact that there's a significant number of other companies that also applied for the names, and that they have undeniable commercial value.

Earlier this month, an action for the internet extension .web went to auction and was sold for $135m. All of that money went into ICANN's coffers. The organization has yet to say what it will do with it, as well as the other $105m it has also raised from a further 15 auctions of top-level domains.

Since 2010, ICANN's top lawyer John Jeffrey has seen his salary rise on average 26 per cent per year to $530,000 in 2015. Also in 2015, the chair of the BGC, Chris Disspain, received [PDF] $145,000 in compensation, payment and reimbursements for the part-time voluntary work he carried out for ICANN, a California-based non-profit.

 

[HeyNow]

This nonsense has been going on since 2000, when that dick Hans Kraaijenbrink and silver-spoon-in-mouth Esther Dyson ran roughshod over IOD, Name-Space, and other worthy gTLD applicants.

 

[GoKaizen]

ICANN is a BS organization.

http://vintcerf.com/

 

[GoKaizen]

http://domainincite.com/20841-irp-panel-crucifies-icann-for-lack-of-transparency

 

[Domainating]

It's hard for me to hide my frustration, discontent and baffled amazement with ICANN and it's incredibly boundless greed and corruption.

Note that they have no authority over Trademarks, but have set themselves up as a Trademark Clearinghouse. Yet, Trademarks were always designed to be affordable for start-ups and entrepreneurs, but ICANN refuses to acknowledge most of the Trademarks in the world, and effectively requires an expensive and time consuming successful patent registration process in order to even be considered a real Trademark (to them), in the meantime holding my valid Trademarks for ransom with exorbitant ngTLD registration and renewal fees that are further artificially inflated with premium ngTLD registration and renewal fees.

Auto dealers can't even afford .car .cars .auto or .autos ngTLD registrations or renewals because of the impact such a hit makes on day-to-day operations.

What will they do with the extra money? You can bet that they will be taking out huge and unrealistic salaries, lining their own coffers.

 

[carob]

There's more! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/04/icanns_general_counsel_should_lose_his_job_over_this/
'ICANN's general counsel should lose his job over this'

Interview It has been four years since Shaul Jolles, as CEO of Dot Registry, filed applications for five new internet extensions – .corp, .inc, .llc, .llp and .ltd – and wrote a check for just under $1m to have them considered by domain name system overseer ICANN.

Unlike the other applicants for the three US corporate entity suffixes .inc, .llc, .llp – and there are no fewer than 21 other applicants – Dot Registry took the unusual step of applying for a special "community" status, meaning that the company would have to jump over a number of additional hurdles to be given priority status.

And in order to pass that test, he spent over a year enlisting Secretaries of State right across the United States to officially support his application.

Unlike the other companies that would sell .inc domains on the open market to anyone, Dot Registry will instead require people who want a domain to have an actual incorporated business (.inc) or a limited company (.llc) or limited partnership (.llp), and to be registered with their state to get it.

Now that is interesting because in the UK you have to be a PLC to get your plc.uk domain or a limited company to get your own company name ltd.uk domain.

Why on earth would devious ICANN oppose that?