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		<title>Antony Van Couvering &#45; CircleID</title>
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		<description>Postings from Antony Van Couvering on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2012, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2011-12-10T08:55:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> U.S. Government Strongly Affirms ICANN Model and New gTLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Larry Strickling, who runs the NTIA (the part of the U.S. Department of Commerce that handles ICANN), yesterday gave an important and remarkable speech to the Practicing Law Institute about Internet governance. His speech, timed to coincide with an orchestrated ICANN-bashing across town in the Senate, was a striking defense of the ICANN model and a repudiation of special pleading outside the process. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20111210_us_government_strongly_affirms_icann_model_and_new_gtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-12-10T08:55:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> New gTLDs and the 1% (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While Occupy Wall Street and other groups representing the so-called 99% are getting most of the press, the 1% is raising its profile as well, at least when it comes to gTLDs. They are complaining that introducing global choice and competition to the Internet will cost them money. The chief of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) now says that it has "spent the last few months" considering the new gTLD program, and has found it lacking. They want ICANN to shut the whole thing down. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/new_gtlds_and_the_1">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-11-16T19:00:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> ICANN Finds Its Voice (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I think we are finally getting somewhere: ICANN is no longer fluttering flusteredly whenever a lobbying group sends a nastygram over the transom. Case in point: a Association of National Advertisers (ANA) that arrived a few days ago, full of bombast and muscle-flexing, demanding that ICANN immediately stop the new gTLD program until a long list of demands from the ANA were met, or else the ANA would be forced to take some Very Scary Actions... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110810_icann_finds_its_voice">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-08-10T08:36:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Will Anyone Qualify As a Community TLD? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some Top-Level Domain (TLD) applicants have been saying that they're "community" applications, which means that would avoid an auction and prevail over even deep-pocketed competitors. But according to ICANN's Applicant Guidebook, very few if any applications will qualify as a community. If you're an applicant who's been telling your supporters or investors that you're going to win because you're a community, you might want to take a step back. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/will_anyone_qualify_as_a_community_tld">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-07-14T18:48:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Top-Level Domains and Search (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Search marketers and SEO mavens are starting to pay attention to top-level domains (TLDs) now that ICANN has announced a starting date. Many of them are dubious about the benefits of TLDs to search, but they are missing out on why search will benefit from new TLDs - and vice-versa. A recent article on SEO.com looked at the value of new top-level domains for search. One of the reasons for his skepticism comes from a common but completely erroneous notion that there's some sort of order to how top-level domains work today... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/top_level_domains_and_search">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-07-05T14:42:01-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Intellectual Property Interests Line Up to Crucify ICANN in Congress (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 4, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing called ICANN Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLD) Oversight Hearing. Kurt Pritz from ICANN has been invited to testify. Arrayed against him are a parade of intellectual property interests, some reasonable, some pur et dur lobbyists for complete corporate hegemony over all aspects of the Internet. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/2011050_intellectual_property_interests_lineup_to_crucify_icann_in_congress">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-05-02T12:31:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Will Blocking a TLD Fracture the Internet? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In his eloquent dissent against approving .XXX, ICANN Board member George Sadowsky talked about blocking and filtering top-level domains. It's a concise statement of a concern that has been identified by various people, including members of the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), as an impediment to the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. It's a thorough defense of a common point of view about blocking TLDs, but while no-one can disagree about the fact of blocking, what is the actual effect? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110412_will_blocking_a_tld_fracture_the_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-04-12T20:18:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Confirmed: Bill Clinton to Address ICANN Meeting in SF (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A personal source close to Bill Clinton has confirmed to us that the former president will give the keynote speech ICANN meeting in San Francisco March 14-18. The meeting promises to produce far more electricity than sleepy NGO-lawyer-techie-academic-lobbyist ICANN attendees are used to. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110113_confirmed_bill_clinton_to_address_icann_meeting_in_sf">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-01-13T08:20:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Wall Between Registries and Registrars Comes Tumbling Down (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The ICANN Board has just voted to get rid of all co-ownership restrictions between domain registries and registrars. This is major news, with far-reaching consequences... This is the only principled decision the ICANN Board could have come to, and they deserve a lot of credit for doing it. By "principled," I mean taking ICANN's stated institutional principles and following them to their logical conclusion... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101110_wall_between_registries_and_registrars_comes_tumbling_down">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-11-10T07:46:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Red Tape Set to Snuff Out Online Identity of Wales (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Wales, a small Celtic country that has proudly withstood the depredations of Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and tourists, which has given the world everything from an enduring mythology to the world's longest single-world domain name, has been informed that they will not be allowed to proceed with .CYM (short for the Welsh name for Wales, Cymru) because that three-letter code is already claimed by the Cayman Islands. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101108_red_tape_set_to_snuff_out_online_identity_of_wales">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-11-08T06:32:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> ICANN Dressing Up for New gTLD Party in San Francisco (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The ICANN Board met on September 24-25 2010 in Trondheim, Norway, to consider and act on the impediments still in the way of the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. They passed a number of resolutions that provide very clear indications of how things are going. The short version is that the news is good for new gTLDs. ICANN is nailing down the final outstanding issues and the timetable is clearer than ever. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20101005_icann_dressing_up_for_new_gtld_party_in_san_francisco">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-10-05T14:17:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> What Does the .CO Launch Mean for New gTLDs? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The .CO top-level domain made over $10 million in just a couple of months. What do the results of the .CO re-launch mean for new gTLDs? Remember, .CO is the country-code TLD for Colombia. Until this summer, you could only register names under .com.co, .net.co, etc. You couldn't register myname.co. Now anyone in the world can register a .co name, and register it directly under the top level. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100908_what_does_the_co_launch_mean_for_new_gtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-09-08T13:06:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> ICANN's Economic Study - It Depends (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Economists aren't very good at predicting things, as any one with money in the stock market can attest. The most powerful economist in the United States, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, is on record predicting a continuing climb in housing prices -- just prior to their precipitous decline. And yet their crystal balls still hold some allure for those who need to present "evidence" about the future. Such is the case with ICANN and the new generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100721_icanns_economic_study_it_depends">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-07-21T18:01:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> What the ICANN Brussels Meeting Means for New gTLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ICANN's 38th get-together, in Brussels, may become known as the meeting where the dust finally began to settle. Long-standing issues were settled, compromises were reached, no-one complained too much about the latest version of the Applicant Guidebook, and the Board stood by its project plan dates, even scheduling a Board retreat to solve remaining issues. Finally, there were no surprise "gotcha!" delays that generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) applicants have been used to seeing at ICANN meeting. With one possible exception... <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/what_the_icann_brussels_meeting_means_for_new_gtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-07-06T08:58:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> "Thin Brand Line" Breaks as Canon Announces Plans for .CANON (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Until today's announcement by Canon, no large brand had broken the "thin brand line" by revealing their plan to apply for their own new top-level domain. Now with Canon's announcement, other major companies have been challenged to either announce their TLD plans or else state that they plan to forgo the chance to brand themselves at the top level of the domain name space. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20100316_thin_brand_line_breaks_as_canon_announces_plans_for_canon">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2010-03-16T08:34:00-08:00</dc:date>
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