Internet Governance Blog
DIDP Request #18 - ICANN’s Internal Website will Stay Internal
- July 29, 2016
ICANN maintains an internal website accessible to staff and employees. We requested ICANN to provide us with a document with the contents of that website in the interest of transparency and accountability.
Read more →DIDP Request #17 - How ICANN Chooses their Contractual Compliance Auditors
- July 29, 2016
At a congressional hearing on internet governance and progress, then President of ICANN Fadi Chehadi indicated that the number of people working on compliance audits grew substantially—from 6 to 24 (we misquoted it as 25)— in the span of a few years.
Read more →DIDP Request #16 - ICANN has no Documentation on Registrars’ “Abuse Contacts”
- July 29, 2016
Registrars on contract with ICANN are required to maintain an “abuse contact” - a 24/7 dedicated phone line and e-mail address to receive reports of abuse regarding the registered names sponsored by the registrar.
Read more →DIDP Request #15: What is going on between Verisign and ICANN?
- July 29, 2016
During a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on “Internet Governance Progress After ICANN 53,” President and CEO of ICANN - Mr Fadi Chehade indicated that ICANN follows up with registries and registrars on receipt of any complaint against them about violations of their contract with ICANN.
Read more →DIDP Request #14: Keeping track of ICANN’s contracted parties: Registrars
- July 28, 2016
In September 2016, we filed two separate DIDP requests regarding ICANN’s Contractual Compliance Goals.
Read more →DIDP Request #13: Keeping track of ICANN’s contracted parties: Registries
- July 28, 2016
On multiple occasions, Fadi Chehade, then President and CEO of ICANN has emphasized the importance of conducting audits (internal and external) to ensure compliance of ICANN’s contracted parties. At a US congressional hearing, he spoke about the contract monitoring function of ICANN.
Read more →DIDP Request #9 - Exactly how involved is ICANN in the NETmundial Initiative?
- July 27, 2016
The importance and relevance of knowing ICANN’s involvement in the NETmundial Initiative cannot be overstated.
Read more →DIDP Request #10 - ICANN does not know how much each RIR contributes to its Budget
- July 27, 2016
In an effort to understand the relationship between the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) and ICANN, we requested current and historical information on the contract fees paid by the five RIRs (AfriNIC, ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC and RIPE NCC) to ICANN annually.
Read more →One Pokémon to Rule Them All
- July 25, 2016
America’s head start on the augmented reality game Pokémon Go shows that the interweb is not an egalitarian space.
Read more →The Gay Pride Charade
- July 25, 2016
For most of the milllenials, news is formed by trends, what goes viral, and often open to speculation, projection, manipulation and deceit.
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