http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Wendy Seltzer on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-07-02T17:35:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_new_tld_hype http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_new_tld_hype Junket Meeting last week, ICANN's Board approved the GNSO Council's recommendations for the eventual addition to the root of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This means that eventually, when the staff drafts, community comments upon, and Board approves implementation processes, those with deep pockets will have the opportunity to bid for new TLD strings... More...]]> 2008-07-02T17:35:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/86257_fcc_internet_filtering http://www.circleid.com/posts/86257_fcc_internet_filtering More...]]> 2008-06-25T07:42:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/710254_whois_privacy_domain_name_registration http://www.circleid.com/posts/710254_whois_privacy_domain_name_registration Doc's post and the impending comments deadline for the next iteration of ICANN's never-ending WHOIS saga finally pushed me to write up my thoughts on the latest iteration of ICANN debate. As Doc points out, much of the current debate is very inside baseball, tied up in acronyms atop bureaucratic layers. Small wonder then that ordinary domain name registrants and Internet users haven't commented much, while the fora are dominated by INTA members turning out responses to an "urgent request" to "let ICANN know that Whois is important to the brand owners I represent"... More...]]> 2007-10-25T17:07:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/79713_lawyer_domain_registrant_guilty http://www.circleid.com/posts/79713_lawyer_domain_registrant_guilty lawyers sending out improper cease-and-desists, Wired News reports that a Nevada man has pleaded guilty to impersonating a lawyer to extort domain registrants to turn over their domain names. "A Nevada man pleaded guilty Thursday to his plotting to steal domain names from their legitimate owners by impersonating a California intellectual property lawyer and send threatening letters to domain name owners in hopes of convincing them to turn over the domains to him..." More...]]> 2007-09-07T14:41:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/new_domain_names_internet http://www.circleid.com/posts/new_domain_names_internet blogging about ICANN's new gTLD policy or lack thereof [also featured on CircleID], I've had several people ask me why I care so much about ICANN and new top-level domains. Domain names barely matter in a world of search and hyperlinks, I'm told, and new domains would amount to little more than a cash transfer to new registries from those trying to protect their names and brands. While I agree that type-in site-location is less and less relevant, and we haven't yet seen much end-user focused innovation in the use of domain names, I'm not ready to throw in the towel. I think ICANN is still in a position to do affirmative harm to Internet innovation. More...]]> 2007-07-02T13:15:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_keep_core_neutral_stupid http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_keep_core_neutral_stupid GNSO Report [PDF] proposed 19 "Recommendations" for criteria these new domain strings should meet -- including morality tests and "infringement" oppositions. ...It's important to keep ICANN from being a censor, or from straying beyond its narrow technical mandate. The thick process described in the GNSO report would be expensive, open to "hecklers' vetos," and deeply political... ICANN should aim for a "stupid core"... More...]]> 2007-06-28T13:00:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icanns_at_large_exit_without_voice http://www.circleid.com/posts/icanns_at_large_exit_without_voice exit, voice, and loyalty by driving all of its good people to exit rather than giving them meaningful voices. Thomas Roessler, a long-time advocate of individual users' interests on the interim ALAC now suggests it's Time to Reconsider the structure of ICANN's At-Large, as he feels compelled to promise himself not to get involved with ICANN again... More...]]> 2007-05-21T15:43:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_contract_public_enforce http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_contract_public_enforce ICANN Blog: "ICANN is not a regulator. We rely mainly on contract law. We do not condone in any way whatsoever RegisterFly's business practice and behaviour." This is disingenuous. ICANN is the central link in a web of contracts that regulate the business of domain name allocation. ICANN has committed, as a public benefit corporation, to enforcing those contracts in the public interest. Domain name registrants, among others, rely on those contracts to establish a secure, stable environment for domain name registration and through that for online content location. More...]]> 2007-03-15T08:49:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/spamming_news_spamhaus_non_story_viral http://www.circleid.com/posts/spamming_news_spamhaus_non_story_viral shows more than 300 stories about Spamhaus, most about a proposed court order following a district court default judgment. To me, the most interesting is the meta-story -- why the non-event of a proposed order has the blogs scrambling with claims of constitutional crisis and even the notoriously close-lipped ICANN issuing an announcement "in response to community interest expressed on this topic." More...]]> 2006-10-13T10:07:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/fighting_over_scraps_icann_table http://www.circleid.com/posts/fighting_over_scraps_icann_table another ICANN meeting, frustrated as ever. 700 or so people flew halfway around the world to hear canned presentations, dueling-monologue public form sessions, and resolutions that left major issues unresolved, and to gripe in the hallways about how little was being done. More...]]> 2006-04-14T13:38:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/wipo_crowing_again_about_cybersquatting http://www.circleid.com/posts/wipo_crowing_again_about_cybersquatting More...]]> 2006-02-01T14:38:08-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_to_listen_to_individual_internet_user http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_to_listen_to_individual_internet_user More...]]> 2005-12-08T17:30:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/alac_meets_the_icann_board http://www.circleid.com/posts/alac_meets_the_icann_board ALAC. At this Vancouver meeting, for the first time, the ICANN Board met with us, and Bret captured it on mp3 for podcast. ALAC criticized ICANN's proposed settlement with VeriSign, and then spoke about the problems with the current structure for at-large participation. More...]]> 2005-12-02T01:06:33-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_on_closing_off_port_43 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_on_closing_off_port_43 More...]]> 2003-12-18T15:55:19-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/why_wipo_does_not_like_the_udrp http://www.circleid.com/posts/why_wipo_does_not_like_the_udrp More...]]> 2003-12-05T12:36:04-08:00