Intellectual Property Law

“Top Ten Myths About Civil Society Participation in ICANN” From the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC)
ICANN Staff and the commercial constituencies at ICANN have been busy spreading mis-information about civil society participation at ICANN - largely to keep civil society and noncommercial interests marginalized...

ICANN Staff Up To Same Old “Divide & Conquer” of Civil Society Strategy
I had a conversation recently with a person who had been actively engaged at ICANN in its early days but became disillusioned and disengaged after a few years because his participation lead him to the conclusion that ICANN staff manage the organization's board of directors and the "community" via the GNSO and the At-Large Advisory Committee...

Is ICANN Liable for Failing to Rescind Registerfly's Accreditation
There is a lot of commentary among registrants and watchers that ICANN is also responsible for the losses being incurred by those victimized by Registerfly. The issue of whether class action litigation can be brought against Registerfly, eNom and/or ICANN...

ICANN Injustices in Stakeholder Group Charters - Ask ICANN to Respect Democratic Process and Noncommercial Users
The public is invited to send an email to ICANN on the subject of the injustices of the draft charters proposed for the noncommercial and commercial stakeholder groups in the new GNSO...

Registerfly Update From ICANN
The ICANN Blog has reported the following information concerning the Registerfly problems. Q. If ICANN terminated Registerfly's accreditation agreement on 31 March, why do they still claim to be accredited? A...

Non-Commercial Groups Oppose Changes In ICANN Committee
Structural reforms within the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that altered the representation of non-commercial interests of internet users in ICANN policy development are ?seriously flawed,? according to the body?s non-commercial users? group...

Network Solutions and ICANN
allegedly registers searched domain names to prevent others from selling and forces customers to pay expensive fees.