WordPress and Thesis: your upgrades are driving me mad
I love WordPress – the software that this blog runs on. And I love Thesis – a clever piece of software that works with WordPress to provide all sorts of clever customisations. But the combination of...
View ArticleIs ICANN’s independent review dead in the water?
I have avoided the meetings of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT) into ICANN for a few months because it was so incredibly frustrating to listen to 60 minutes of people organising...
View ArticleITU Plenus Potens: Locked in a room, locked in time
The International Telecommunication Union is a walking contradiction. I’m here in Guadalajara, Mexico at the organisation’s Plenipotentiary – a meeting it holds every four years to decide the strategic...
View ArticleITU Plenipot: Old men and young women
The International Telecommunication Union is a walking contradiction. There are many things wrong with the organisation: its closed nature; its budgeting; its out-of-date and out-of-control procedures...
View ArticleSex.com sold (again) for $13m
A set of three documents filed in California Bankruptcy Court earlier this week reveal that the world’s most valuable domain name – Sex.com – has been sold for $13m, just one million dollars more than...
View ArticleITU Plenipot: Happy talking, talking, happy talk
In the 1990s, on Channel 4 in the UK, the Pakistani team game Kabbadi was shown Sunday mornings for several hours. The only explanation can be that the broadcasting rights were cheap. Kabbadi is a...
View ArticleICANN begins to find its feet with published Board materials
Credit where credit’s due, the disclosure of Board materials of the organisation that oversees the domain name system, ICANN, has greatly improved since its first and woeful effort. The materials for a...
View ArticleThreatening faxes, dot-xxx and an angry Vint Cerf
One of the more bizarre situations I have found myself in while covering domain name system overseer ICANN, both outside and inside the organization, was at the Vancouver meeting in December 2005. It...
View ArticleMy analysis of the broken ICANN culture
I wrote an extensive review of the dot-jobs saga earlier this week on .Nxt called: The case study that could kill ICANN. This afternoon, I saw the Stephane van Gelder had referenced it in a blog post:...
View ArticleWho should control the Internet?
It is going to be a particularly crazy year in terms of Internet policy and governance, maybe even more than so than 2005, when the World Summit on the Information Society happened. NPR used the launch...
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