How Many Words are your Pictures Worth?

Tim AtkinsNews

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Comments Run Overwhelmingly Against ICANN Staff Attempt to Impose URS on Legacy gTLDs

Philip CorwinAccountability, GNSO, ICA, ICANN, Law & Policy, URS

The comment period on the proposed renewal registry agreement for the .Travel legacy gTLD closed on Sunday, June 21st and the comments submitted are overwhelmingly opposed to ICANN staff’s attempt to impose any of the new gTLD rights protection mechanisms, including Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS), on legacy gTLDs through contracting rather than a formal Policy Development Process (PDP). In addition …

Electronic Frontier Foundation tells ICANN to Delete URS from .Travel

Philip CorwinAccountability, GNSO, ICANN, Law & Policy, UDRP, URS

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has just told ICANN to drop the notion of applying the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) dispute resolution system to .Travel and other legacy gTLDs without undertaking a full Policy Development Process (PDP). In a June 12 letter, EFF stated: ICANN should not apply URS to the .travel domain, or to any additional domains, by the …

RPM Comments Report Makes URS Expansion Danger Clear

Philip CorwinUncategorized

On May 29th ICANN staff issued its Report of Public Comments on the “Draft Report: Rights Protection Mechanisms Review”. Back in May ICA advised ICANN that, “ICA would vigorously oppose any attempt to amend the URS to provide a domain transfer option as such a rapid and circumscribed process could be readily abused to further the scourge of reverse domain …

ICANN Proposes URS for .Cat and .Pro in Steady March Toward .Net and .Com

Philip CorwinUncategorized

Just ten days ago we advised the domain investment community that ICANN staff was seeking to act in an unacceptably unaccountable manner that appears to violate ICANN’s own Bylaws by improperly imposing Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) and other new gTLD program Rights Protection Mechanisms (RPM) implementations on legacy gTLDs. This would have the de facto effect of converting these RPMs …

Act Now — Just Say “No!” to URS at .Travel – Or It Will Travel to .Com

Philip CorwinAccountability, ICANN, Law & Policy, URS

  On May 12th ICANN posted the “Proposed Renewal of .TRAVEL Sponsored TLD Registry Agreement” for a period of public comment ending June 21st. You’d expect ICANN staff to be on their best behavior right now, during ongoing community efforts to fashion enhanced and binding accountability measures. But instead this proposed Registry Agreement (RA) contains a provision through which staff …

ICA Counsel Quoted in WSJ Op-Ed on ICANN

Philip CorwinUncategorized

ICA Counsel Philip Corwin is quoted in a May 18th Wall Street Journal Op-Ed. The article, “Obama’s Bungled Internet Surrender’, was penned by L. Gordon Crovitz, whose weekly column addresses technology-related policy matters. As the title suggests, Mr. Crovitz is not a fan of the Administration’s plan to relinquish its counterparty role on the IANA functions contract. His Op-Ed states: …

Print is Dead, Long Live Print

Tim AtkinsNews

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ICA Counsel to Testify before Congress on IANA Transition and ICANN Accountability

Philip CorwinUncategorized

ICA Counsel Philip Corwin has been invited to testify on ICA’s behalf before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. The Subcommittee is holding a hearing on Wednesday, May 13th on the subject of “Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation”. The hearing …

ICA to ICANN: We’ll “Vigorously Oppose” Changing URS to Facilitate RDNH

Philip CorwinICA, ICANN, Law & Policy, UDRP, URS

On Thursday, April 30th ICA filed a comment letter with ICANN regarding the “Draft Report: Rights Protection Mechanisms Review” published earlier this year. This preliminary report paves the way for a more extensive issues report on the new gTLD RPMs that will be delivered to the GNSO Council this fall. That second report will not only inform the debate on whether …