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Philip S. Corwin

Founding principal of Virtualaw LLC
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Philip S. Corwin founding principal of Virtualaw LLC. From 2018 to 2026 he served as Senior Director and Policy Counsel at Verisign. Before then, he represented other technology-related clients, including as Counsel to the Internet Commerce Association. With nearly 50 years of Federal legislative and regulatory experience, Philip has focused on the evolving law of electronic commerce, including such areas as internet governance, antitrust, privacy, cybersecurity, blockchain, crypto, AI, online speech and intellectual property protection. Philip is an active member of several American Bar Association Committees. He served as Chairman of the Business Law Section's Committee on Legislation and as the Washington Liaison for the Science and Technology Section, and he was Legislative Reporter for the Business Law Section's Cyberspace Law Committee. He also participates in the Copyright Legislation, Trademark Legislation, and Trademarks & the Internet Committees. He is also a member of the International Trademark Association, where he served for eight years on the Internet Committee, four years on the Anti-Counterfeiting Committee, and he is presently a member of the Technology Transformation Committee. Prior roles including Director of Operations and Retail Banking at the American Bankers Association, and several staff positions at the U.S. Senate. Philip received his Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. He is a member of the Bar in the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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2016 - Aug 03	on	Court of Appeals Avoids "Doomsday Effect" in Iran ccTLD Decision
2016 - Jul 19	on	NTIA Revs up Rhetoric as IANA Transition Looms
2016 - Jul 08	on	Heritage Holding Anti-IANA Transition Event With Cruz
2016 - Jul 08	on	Heritage Holding Anti-IANA Transition Event With Cruz
2016 - Jul 08	on	Heritage Holding Anti-IANA Transition Event With Cruz
2016 - Jul 08	on	Heritage Holding Anti-IANA Transition Event With Cruz
2016 - Jul 07	on	Heritage Holding Anti-IANA Transition Event With Cruz
2016 - May 28	on	Senate Oversight Hearing Explores "Test Drive" of IANA Transition
2015 - Nov 11	on	The TPP and the DNS
2015 - Nov 11	on	The TPP and the DNS
2015 - Jul 28	on	The Senate Should Take the DOTCOM Act Off Cruz Control
2015 - Jul 21	on	Will 2016 Politics Trump Bipartisan Support for the MSM and DOTCOM Act?
2015 - Jul 21	on	Will 2016 Politics Trump Bipartisan Support for the MSM and DOTCOM Act?
2015 - Jun 16	on	Law and Disorder: When .Brand Meets .Crime
2015 - Jun 15	on	Law and Disorder: When .Brand Meets .Crime
2015 - Mar 14	on	Estimating Trademark Claims Notice Suppression of Non-Infringing New gTLD Registrations
2014 - Dec 19	on	Thirty-Three Million and Counting
2014 - Dec 19	on	NETmundial Initiative Lacks Backing, and ICANN Should Not Lead
2014 - Nov 11	on	Accountability Group Charter Sets the Bar Too Low
2014 - Oct 01	on	New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge
2014 - Oct 01	on	New gTLD Abuse Trends Beginning to Emerge
2014 - Aug 30	on	ICANN Community Issues Unprecedented Letter Questioning ICANN's Proposed Accountability Process
2014 - Aug 23	on	Prepare for the Worst, But Hope for the Best
2014 - Jun 16	on	ICANN is MIA on .XYZ
2014 - Jun 14	on	ICANN is MIA on .XYZ
2013 - Nov 05	on	How Insider Domain Theft Can Bring Down ICANN
2013 - Jul 28	on	Senate Appropriations Committee Critical of NTIA Role Within ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee
2012 - May 04	on	Donuts and TAS: What We Really Care About
2012 - Mar 27	on	A Gap in the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook?
2012 - Feb 19	on	MegaBust's MegaQuestions Cloud the Net's Future
2011 - Oct 07	on	ICANN and Ethics
2011 - Sep 27	on	ICANN and Ethics
2010 - Dec 14	on	Another Big Step Forward for New TLDs
2010 - Dec 13	on	Another Big Step Forward for New TLDs
2010 - Dec 13	on	Another Big Step Forward for New TLDs
2010 - Jun 15	on	ICANN (TBD): Why is ICANN Always to Blame and What to Do About It
2009 - Apr 29	on	ICA to ICANN: The IRT Must Open Up Or Be Stripped of Official Status and Support
2009 - Apr 23	on	ICA to ICANN: The IRT Must Open Up Or Be Stripped of Official Status and Support
2009 - Jan 24	on	That Letter to ICANN from the NTIA

Topic Interests

DNS , Domain Names , ICANN , Whois , Privacy , Law , Cybersecurity , Policy & Regulation , Domain Management , Registry Services , Cybercrime , UDRP , New TLDs , Internet Governance , Brand Protection , Cloud Computing , Networks , Censorship , Broadband , Access Providers , Telecom ,

Philip S. Corwin

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Recent Blogs

UDRP Review Is a Test of the MSM

No Safe Harbor: SCOTUS Scuttles the DMCA

The 2-Character Answer to this GAC Advice Should be “No”

.Com RA Extension on ICANN Board’s 9/15 Agenda

The IANA Transition’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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