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Under Pressure, ICANN Reveals Lobbying Expenses

By CircleID Reporter
  • November 20, 2015, 1:10 am PST
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Following several months of pressure, ICANN has revealed a breakdown of figures under its catch-all term of “professional services,” exposing its political expenses, Kieren McCarthy reported today in the Register. He writes: “ICANN has spent $2.5m in the past year lobbying the US government, putting the small non-profit on a par with multi-national corporations. The figure is five times larger than the organization has previously admitted to. It emerged after ICANN was repeatedly asked to reveal the true amount it was spending on professional lobbyists in its bid to take over the internet’s critical IANA functions—that’s the heart of the global DNS, worldwide IP address allocation, and management of communication protocol details.”

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