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	<title>&#45; CircleID</title>
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	<dc:date>2026-04-30T19:14:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> No Safe Harbor: SCOTUS Scuttles the DMCA (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's Supreme Court, in Cox v Sony, recast online copyright liability, effectively sidelining the DMCA safe harbor and replacing it with a narrow inducement standard that leaves service providers little obligation to meaningfully police infringement. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsno-safe-harbor-scotus-scuttles-the-dmca">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The 2-Character Answer to this GAC Advice Should be "No" (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20170516_the_2_character_answer_to_this_gac_advice_should_be_no</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) has reacted to the ICANN Board's November 2016 decision to authorize the release of two-character domains at new gTLDs with advice to the Board that does not have true consensus backing from GAC members and that relates to procedure, not policy. The Board's proper response should be to just say no, stick to its decision and advise the GAC that it will not consider such advice. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170516_the_2_character_answer_to_this_gac_advice_should_be_no">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> .Com RA Extension on ICANN Board's 9/15 Agenda (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ".COM Registry Agreement Amendment" is on the Main Agenda for this Thursday's Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board. The proposed extension of the RA was announced and put out for public comment on June 30th. The public comment period closed on August 12th and ICANN staff's Report of Public Comments was due on September 15th, coincident with the Board meeting. The original due date for that staff Report was August 26th, but was pushed back to accommodate the large number of comments... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160913_dot_com_ra_extension_on_icann_boards_9_15_agenda">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The IANA Transition's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160912_the_iana_transitions_terrible_horrible_no_good_very_bad_day</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, September 8, 2016 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for the prospects of the IANA functions transition being completed by October 1, 2016. Indeed, that same date - but in 2017 - may be the earliest that the handoff from NTIA to ICANN can be completed, given what last Thursday. The day began with the announcement that Sen. Ted Cruz would be making his first Senate floor remarks since exiting the Republican Presidential race, and that the talk's focus would be a continuation and escalation of his long-standing opposition to "Obama's Internet giveaway". Shortly after 11 am, Sen. Cruz began speaking from his Senate desk... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160912_the_iana_transitions_terrible_horrible_no_good_very_bad_day">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> DOJ to Cruz: .Com Price Freeze Can Be Extended to 2024 (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160903_doj_to_cruz_dot_com_price_freeze_can_be_extended_to_2024</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 31st the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a response to the August 12th letter from Senator Ted Cruz and some Congressional colleagues to the head of the Antitrust Division. In that letter Cruz et al asserted that if the pending extension of the .Com registry Agreement (RA) was granted in combination with the consummation of the IANA transition, that DOJ could be prevented from having "meaningful input into the prices that Verisign charges for registering a domain name within the .com domain for an extended period". <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160903_doj_to_cruz_dot_com_price_freeze_can_be_extended_to_2024">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Court of Appeals Avoids "Doomsday Effect" in Iran ccTLD Decision (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160802_court_of_appeals_avoids_doomsday_effect_in_iran_cctld_decision</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued its decision in Weinstein vs. Iran, a case in which families of terror victims sought to have ICANN turn over control of Iran's .IR ccTLD to plaintiffs. In a unanimous decision the three judge panel stated, "On ICANN's motion, the district court quashed the writs, finding the data unattachable under District of Columbia (D.C.) law. We affirm the district court but on alternative grounds." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160802_court_of_appeals_avoids_doomsday_effect_in_iran_cctld_decision">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> TMCH Review Recommends Status Quo (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 25th ICANN announced the publication of the Draft Report of the Independent Review of the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). This study was coordinated for ICANN by the Analysis Group, in conjunction with researchers from the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford as well the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School... while public comments on the draft report will be accepted through September 3rd, this Report was triggered by GAC concerns expressed before the Applicant Guidebook for the new gTLD program was even completed, and is not the work product of a GNSO-created working group and therefore will not directly result in the establishment of any new ICANN policy. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160801_tmch_review_recommends_status_quo">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> NTIA Revs up Rhetoric as IANA Transition Looms (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160718_ntia_revs_up_rhetoric_as_iana_transition_looms</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been almost six weeks since the NTIA announced "that the proposal developed by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it stated its intent to transition the U.S. Government's stewardship role for the Internet domain name system (DNS) technical functions, known as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions", and thereby signaled the start of the last lap of the IANA transition marathon. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160718_ntia_revs_up_rhetoric_as_iana_transition_looms">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Senate Oversight Hearing Explores "Test Drive" of IANA Transition (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160527_senate_oversight_hearing_explores_test_drive_of_iana_transition</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The IANA transition still appears to be on track for consummation at the end of the September 30th expiration date of the current contract between NTIA and ICANN in the wake of the May 24th Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on "Examining the Multistakeholder Plan for Transitioning the Internet Assigned Number Authority". That is, while there are clearly some concerns on both sides of the aisle about terminating the remaining U.S. government ties to ICANN... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160527_senate_oversight_hearing_explores_test_drive_of_iana_transition">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Irritating Irresolution of ICANN Jurisdiction (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160523_the_irritating_irresolution_of_icann_jurisdiction</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The ICANN community review and Board approval of the draft Bylaws intended to implement the Work Stream 1 (WS1) recommendations of the Cross-Community Working Group on Accountability (CCWG-ACCT) are nearing completion. As we approach that marker, it is worth remembering that a major impetus for the approaching transition of IANA functions control away from the U.S. Government (USG) to the multistakeholder community was the notion that termination of the remaining "clerical function" performed by the USG within the context of the current IANA contract would dampen criticism of ICANN's relationship with the USG... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160523_the_irritating_irresolution_of_icann_jurisdiction">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> U. S. Government Blasts China's Draft Domain Regulations (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160516_us_government_blasts_chinas_draft_domain_regulations</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In an unexpected move, the two top U.S. officials charged with the Obama Administration's Internet policy have issued a joint statement severely criticizing draft Chinese domain policies. On May 16th, the State Department's Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda and NTIA's Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Lawrence E. Strickling issued an official statement titled "China's Internet Domain Name Measures and the Digital Economy". <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160516_us_government_blasts_chinas_draft_domain_regulations">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> GAC Empowerment in Post-Transition ICANN (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160326_gac_empowerment_in_post_transition_icann</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 20th, Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Op-ed writer L. Gordon Crovitz published an article titled "Stop Obama's Internet Giveaway". In his opinion piece Mr. Crovitz opposed any near-term transition of the IANA functions... In the course of his article Mr. Crovitz also stated, "Icann already has been kowtowing to authoritarian regimes," alluding to former CEO Fadi Chehade's December 2015 decision to become a Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee to China's World Internet Conference... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160326_gac_empowerment_in_post_transition_icann">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Charter Approved to Review All Rights Protections Mechanisms in All Generic TLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160315_charter_approved_to_review_rights_protections_mechanisms_in_tlds</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 9th, 2016, during its final open meeting at ICANN 55 in Marrakech, Morocco, the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council approved a motion that I proposed to adopt the Charter of the Policy Development Process (PDP) to Review all Rights Protections Mechanisms (RPMs) in all Generic Top-Level Domains. I serve on the Council as one of the two representatives of ICANN's Business Constituency, and my fellow Councilors have designated me to serve as the GNSO's Liaison to the Working Group (WG), and as its Interim Chair. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160315_charter_approved_to_review_rights_protections_mechanisms_in_tlds">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> CEO Chehade, Senator Cruz, and the IANA Transition End Game (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160302_ceo_chehade_senator_cruz_and_the_iana_transition_end_game</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 4, 2016, U.S. Senator (and Republican Party Presidential nomination contender) Ted Cruz, joined by Senators James Lankford and Michael Lee, dispatched a letter to ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade stating that "we were surprised and dismayed to learn that you have agreed to co-chair a high-level advisory committee for the World Internet Conference, which is organized by the Chinese government, while you serve as the Chief Executive Officer of ICANN under contract with the United States Government". The letter continued by posing a series of nine questions... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160302_ceo_chehade_senator_cruz_and_the_iana_transition_end_game">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN Hugs China's Multilateral Internet Governance Initiative (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160107_icann_hugs_china_multilateral_internet_governance_initiative</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The original title of this article was "ICANN CEO Hugs China's Multilateral Internet Governance Initiative". CEO has been dropped from the final version. That deletion helps make one of its two essential points. Which is that since ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade accepted a formal advisory role with China's World Internet Conference (WIC, which is a proprietary project of the Chinese Communist Party) while still engaged in leading the U.S.-based technical coordinator of the DNS, and as that ICANN role almost surely played a decisive role in his being offered the position... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160107_icann_hugs_china_multilateral_internet_governance_initiative">More...</a>]]></description>
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