Trump commerce pick may set panel of experts to investigate unwinding IANA...
David Redl, the assistant Commerce secretary for communications and information, reportedly told GOP lawmakers before he was confirmed that he would convene a panel to look at unwinding the Obama...
View Article2014 Hacked ICANN data still sells at a black market premium, years after breach
A blog called Cyberscoop reports that Three years after hackers used a spearphishing attack to successfully gain access to internal data at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...
View ArticleICANN Spent $32 million on IANA transition
ICANN Spent a whooping $32 million on the IANA transition process for the period March 2014 to December 2016 , this is according to a presentation released last week. $15 Million went to “External...
View ArticleICANN rejects “Africa Proposal” Tunis Agenda saying Africa “misunderstands...
The battle for a disputed .Africa top level domain appears to gain new insights as the court process continues. The court process which has taken the whole of 2016 and is set to be ruled upon in 2017...
View ArticleSenate Judiciary Subcomm. Hearing on Implications of IANA Transition
A Ted Cruz led committee will today Wednesday, September 14th hold a hearing on “Protecting Internet Freedom: Implications of Ending U.S. Oversight of the Internet”. This follows the plans to complete...
View ArticleALG experts says there is no proof NTIA performed antitrust analysis on IANA...
Rick Manning has released a statement on behalf of Americans for Limited Government that National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) performed no antitrust analysis even as it...
View ArticleRepublican Platform 2016 on Protecting Internet Freedom blocks IANA Transition
In a last ditch effort to prevent the IANA transition, the GOP has included in its Republican Platform for 2016 [PDF] which was formally approved during the party’s national convention in Cleveland a...
View ArticleSens. Grassley & Goodlatte Pile Pressure against IANA Transition say it’s...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Va.) sent a letter to the Commerce Department, asking a series of pointed questions. The...
View ArticleWhy should Businesses care about IANA Transition?
Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced yesterday that the IANA transition proposal developed by the global Internet...
View ArticleNTIA OKs IANA Stewardship Transition but Sen. Ted Cruz Team maintain it is...
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced yesterday that the IANA transition proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder...
View ArticleICANN accused of Stonewalling Congress by US Senators Cruz, Lankford & Lee
On Monday, April 4th 2016, Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz along with James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) have sent yet another pressing letter to ICANN seeking...
View ArticleWalden #SubCommTech Announces Hearings on IANA Transition ‘Privatizing the...
WASHINGTON, DC – Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced in February that the subcommittee will continue its oversight of both the Federal Communications...
View ArticleSens. Ted Cruz, Lankford, and Lee Raise New Concerns About ICANN’s...
Following last week’s statement by Republican Presidential hopeful Ted Cruz that ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé was misleading the U.S. Senate over Wuzhen Conference, the Senator to gether with Sen. James...
View ArticleRepublican Presidential Hopeful Ted Cruz says ICANN CEO Chehadé is misleading...
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) who is also a Republican Presidential hopeful has issued a statement yesterday regarding a letter that Cruz, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)...
View ArticleCongressman Sean Duffy tells Chehade to ‘abandon plans to weaken the Internet’
The US Congressman Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) has sent a letter to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade urging him to abandon plans to weaken the Internet for users in the United States and around the world This is...
View ArticleSenators Thune, Schatz warn ICANN Board not to stymie accountability demands...
US Senators Chairman John Thune (R-SD) and colleague Brian Schatz [D-HI] have once again written to the ICANN Board concerning interference of the accountability steps and proposals to the IANA...
View ArticleIANA Transition Standoff: ICANN Board neither supports the Single Member...
The ICANN Boards Penchant for maintaining its status quo on power has triggered another multistakeholder storm after rejecting the second option of the Designator model.This is after rejecting the...
View ArticleUS Senators Letter Questions GAO on whether Obama Administration has Power to...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman...
View ArticleNorth America’s ARIN Officially Reaches IPv4 Addresses Depletion
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has issued the final IPv4 addresses in its free pool, this effectively means that the ARIN no longer holds any IPv4 addresses. Due to depletion of its...
View ArticleAn unsupervised Post IANA-ICANN will be pressured by power hungry governments...
Sophia Bekele Internet expert and previous ICANN policy adviser, has warned in her article that if, as has been argued by some other writers, governments want more power within the ICANN ecosystem,...
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