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	<dc:date>2026-04-14T18:21:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> And the Wait Continues for .Corp, .Home and .Mail Applicants (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 6 March 2017, ICANN's GDD finally responded to an applicant letter written on 14 August 2016 to the ICANN Board. This was not a response from the ICANN Board to the letter from 2016 but a response from ICANN staff. The content of this letter can best be described as a Null Response. It reminded the applicants that the Board had put the names on hold and was still thinking about what to do. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170312_and_the_wait_continues_for_corp_home_and_mail_applicants">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Curious Statement About 2012 gTLD Round Name Collision Fears at IGF (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During his presentation at IGF on 7 December in Guadalajara, Akram Atallah, President of ICANN's Global Domain Division, said the following: So when you look at that, you'll see that we are left with only 20 to go. There are a few that need to be withdrawn that haven't withdrawn... This surprised me, but since the meeting was about possible new application procedures and not the handling of the last round's persistent problems, I decided not to ask at that point. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20161214_curious_statement_on_2012_gtld_round_name_collision_fears_at_igf">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> The .Corp, .Home & .Mail Quandary (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 24 August, fifteen applicants for the .corp, .home, or .mail (CHM) new gTLDs sent a letter to the ICANN Board asking for action on the stalled process of the their applications. This points to the answer for the question I asked in march of this year: Whatever happened with namespace collision issues and the gTLD Round of 2012. As the letter from the applicants indicates, ICANN has done little to deal with issues concerned with namespace collisions in the last 2 years. Is it now time for action? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160828_the_dot_corp_dot_home_dot_mail_quandary">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Whatever Happened with Namespace Collision Issues and the gTLD Round of 2012 (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20160302_whatever_happened_with_namespace_collision_issues_and_gtld_round</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The new gTLD program of 2012, based on the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) policy recommendations of 2007, has been both a success and mess. In terms of its success, many new and innovative names are being introduced on the Internet, more most every day. The mess has involved ad-hoc, independent decisions by the Board and implementation decisions by ICANN staff that have resulted in variety of problems including a broken community evaluation process... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160302_whatever_happened_with_namespace_collision_issues_and_gtld_round">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Need for a Remedial gTLD Program for #newgtlds (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140129_the_need_for_a_remedial_gtld_program_for_newgtlds</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I think the new gTLD program will have many successes. It is a failure, however, when it comes to serving developing and less developed economies, especially the communities in those economies. Actually it failed in serving communities anywhere, but it really failed when it came to serving the peoples of the world outside WEOG (the UN designations for the developed Western European nations and Other Groups; others including AU, CA US, and NZ). <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140129_the_need_for_a_remedial_gtld_program_for_newgtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Is There Any Room for Communities in The New gTLD Program? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsis_there_any_room_for_communities_in_the_new_gtld_program</link>
		<description><![CDATA[With the start of hunting season for new gTLDs, attention needs to be paid to Community in all of its reality and diversity. After family, community is one of the strongest organizational principles in human society and has been since the beginning of history. With the rare exception of the classical hermit, everyone is part of multiple communities. Communities are important and need to be protected by society and by this new gTLD process. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsis_there_any_room_for_communities_in_the_new_gtld_program">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Registrar Stakeholder Group in GNSO Works Against the ICANN Multistakeholder Social Compact (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/postsregistrar_stakeholder_group_gnso_works_against_icann_multistakeholder</link>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the essential features of the social compact that makes ICANN viable in its stewardship of the Domain Name system is that the operations of the Contracted Parties, i.e. Registrars and Registries, are governed by the cooperation of the contracted parties and the non-contracted parties, i.e. the stakeholders, in the creation of policy. In ICANN, contracts and other agreements are the method by which this policy is instantiated. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsregistrar_stakeholder_group_gnso_works_against_icann_multistakeholder">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> What New gTLDs Mean for Developing Economy Applicants? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone seems excited about new gTLDs being just around the corner. All of the overarching issues will soon be resolved: GAC and the ICANN Board will sit in a room and the wisdom of our leaders, ICANN and National, will produce the grand compromise. The starting flag will be flourished! A thousand flowers will bloom! Hooray! But it is only the developed world that can be excited about this, for it is hard to understand how the developing world could be very excited about an overpriced round of gTLD offerings that is unfairly beyond their means. <a href="https://circleid.com/postswhat_new_gtlds_mean_for_developing_economy_applicants">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-14T11:21:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Post JPA: Tempered Happiness (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Affirmation gladdens me. The Affirmation worries me. The Affirmation makes me wonder what is next. I am of course referring to the <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30sep09-en.htm#affirmation">Affirmation of Commitments</a> between the United States Department of Commerce (DoC) and ICANN. In the respect that the US is loosening its grip on ICANN a little, this is a good thing. Symbolically, of course it is gigantic... <a href="https://circleid.com/postspost_jpa_tempered_happiness">More...</a>]]></description>
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