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	<dc:date>2026-03-31T21:29:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> The Dot Green gTLD and the Domain Name Delusion That Foretells General gTLD Disaster (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20150302_dot_green_gtld_domain_name_delusion_general_gtld_disaster</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I admire Annalisa Roger. I know from my single email interaction with her that she means well. Nonetheless, dot Green apparently ranks below 330 in the list of operational new gTLDs with an apparent total of 117 domains, give or take a few. Why is this the case? It seems to me that dot Green is one the few new gTLDs that actually deserves support... The notion that most generic gTLDs [like dot Green] are already positioned to accommodate brand channel partners such as this or that 'brandchannel.green' is illusion. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20150302_dot_green_gtld_domain_name_delusion_general_gtld_disaster">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Rewiring Internet Governance: Summing up ICANN Policy Walking Backward Into the Future (Part 4) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So-called "globalization" and its corollaries which are trade policy and, thus, foreign policy intersect with telecommunications. This ought to be obvious and it is not new. For example, in December 2011, OECD adopted its "<em>Recommendation of the Council on Principles for Internet Policy Making</em>", the latter which apparently connects with an earlier U.S. cyberspace strategy based on something called the "Internet Freedom Agenda" dated 21 January 2010... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140102_rewiring_internet_governance_summing_icann_policy_walking_backward">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Rewiring Internet Governance: U.S. Government Will Likely Be Forced to Jettison ICANN (Part 3) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The survival thesis mentioned in Part 2 goes like this. ICANN's imaginary mandate is global. But the mind set is provincial. The latter is defensive; focused on keeping power and therefore control over internet policy. But the evidence points to policy actions that contradict policy rhetoric. Discrepancies disclose the delusion. Here's ICANN "core value" from Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 6 (amended April, 2013): "Introducing and promoting competition in the registration of domain names where practicable and beneficial in the public interest." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131217_rewiring_internet_governance_us_likely_be_forced_to_jettison_icann">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Rewiring Internet Governance: Choice and Control (Part 2) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131207_rewiring_internet_governance_choice_and_control_part_2</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It is tempting to write off ICANN as a U.S. foreign policy lackey and that's all there is to say about ICANN. However, if the mantra for rewiring governance means "lets get ICANN" we risk missing forest for trees. ICANN is merely the symptom of a dysfunctional governance predicament that somehow (despite best efforts) skews oversight. Shapiro, for example, regards oversight as a "game" (1994). His "delegation dilemma" or "agency problem" stems from two options, neither of which are attractive vis-á-vis governance. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131207_rewiring_internet_governance_choice_and_control_part_2">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Rewiring Internet Governance: Step One Is About ICANN (Part 1) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131126_rewiring_internet_governance_step_one_is_about_icann_part_1</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It is time for some straight talk about governance. The word "governance" used here means authority. It does not merely mean rules, or coercion, or any other weasel-worded definitions that deflect our attention from the art of good governance as distinct from self-serving opportunism and illusory power sharing. Politics, as Theodore Lowi reminded us, is ultimately about "who gets what". Quibbling with endless essays about who rules the root is useful, but not demonstrative. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131126_rewiring_internet_governance_step_one_is_about_icann_part_1">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> How Insider Domain Theft Can Bring Down ICANN (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a hired philosopher graced ICANN, the work would get down to brass tacks. "What is it?", she would ask, that drives ICANN beyond the mysterious dot that apparently represents the root. One can picture subsequent appeals from senior management to its navels, for clues as to what in the end game the root truly represents. I surmise that contemplating bred-in-the-bone values does not resonate easily or often at ICANN. Its like that unreachable itch that evades our scratch; we can't get at the source. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131104_how_insider_domain_theft_can_bring_down_icann">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Anti-Consumer ICANN Can Not be Trusted To Protect Domain Registrants' Property Interests (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20131021_icann_can_not_be_trusted_to_protect_domain_registrants</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Domain name registrants who purchase a name in any of the present or pending generic (gTLD) top level domains should think twice before entrusting a domain name property interest to ICANN, even though ICANN levies a money tariff on each domain registration. ICANN has no policy language that indemnifies domain name registrants. ICANN language does not even contemplate the possibility of domain theft by an ICANN registrar. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131021_icann_can_not_be_trusted_to_protect_domain_registrants">More...</a>]]></description>
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