Benjamin Edelman is a Ph.D. student in Economics studying Internet policy and regulation. Ben previously oversaw webcasts and meeting technology for ICANN's Public Meetings; he has since written about domain name politics, particularly in the context of expired domain names subsequently used for pornography and registered with false WHOIS data. Ben's current research agenda includes evaluation of registrations in new TLDs (BIZ, INFO, etc.), a quantitative comparison of commercial and non-commercial uses of the Internet, and an examination of Internet filtering efforts by governments worldwide. Beyond domain names and ICANN, Ben's research interests include Internet filtering (in libraries, schools, and even entire countries), geolocation analysis, and file sharing.
