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	<title>&#45; CircleID</title>
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	<description>Postings from  on CircleID</description>
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	<dc:date>2026-04-08T19:45:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> ICANN Is Violating Its Legal Agreements with the U.S. Government – Who's Next? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210809-icann-violating-its-legal-agreements-with-the-us-government</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In April, I published an article, The Multistakeholder Moment of Truth: Will Stakeholders Hold ICANN Accountable?, alerting stakeholders that ICANN is violating its legal agreements with the U.S. Government -- namely the InterNIC licensing agreement and merged Memorandum of Understanding. At that time, I warned that it is essential for stakeholders not to remain silent in the face of this transgression, "hoping that such behavior left unchecked will end of its own accord." <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210809-icann-violating-its-legal-agreements-with-the-us-government">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Multi-Stakeholder Internet Governance Is Captured and Presumed Dead (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210802-multi-stakeholder-internet-governance-is-captured-presumed-dead</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Technical management of the Internet was delegated to ICANN by the U.S. government because it was believed that the private sector would be more agile and responsive to the needs of globally distributed stakeholders. However, this optimism and the faith it has produced has proven to be misplaced since ICANN's multi-stakeholder governance continues falling far short of the basic expectations set when it was created. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210802-multi-stakeholder-internet-governance-is-captured-presumed-dead">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Anticompetitive and Predatory Misconduct by ICANN and Contracted Parties Must End (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210616-anticompetitive-predatory-misconduct-by-icann-must-end</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 26, 2021, I submitted a complaint to ICANN's Complaints Officer, Krista Papac. In a nutshell, my complaint centers on ICANN's blatant violation of its Bylaws, specifically Section 2.2, named Restrictions, which expressly prohibits ICANN from acting as a registrar. However, despite the absence of any exceptions to this unambiguous prohibition, ICANN is acting improperly as a registrar for the purposes of warehousing and cybersquatting on certain domain names in the .com and .net registries. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210616-anticompetitive-predatory-misconduct-by-icann-must-end">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Why Is Verisign Ignoring New Revenue? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210602-why-is-verisign-ignoring-new-revenue</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month saw a much-anticipated decision handed down in the Independent Review Panel (IRP) proceeding examining the controversial 2015 auction for the .web generic top-level domain name registry (gTLD). This decision has been covered by others, including Kevin Murphy's DomainIncite, and has been the subject of unsurprisingly incongruous statements by both Verisign and Afilias, who are both contending for the .web concession privilege. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210602-why-is-verisign-ignoring-new-revenue">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN's Tax Exemption Requires Updated Review (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210516-icanns-tax-exemption-requires-updated-review</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In September 2015, John Levine asked why ICANN should be considered a tax-exempt organization following the completion of the U.S. government's transition of technical management of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) determined that ICANN was an exempt organization in 2000 and, inarguably, circumstances have evolved materially since then. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210516-icanns-tax-exemption-requires-updated-review">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Mistrust of ICANN Is Fully Vindicated (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210510-mistrust-of-icann-is-fully-vindicated</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I have been reporting on a highly questionable auction scheme for a single domain name, o.com, which is currently being improperly warehoused by ICANN along with a number of other .com and .net domain names. This violates <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en">ICANN's Bylaws</a> -- but, so what? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210510-mistrust-of-icann-is-fully-vindicated">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Leaked Documents Reveal Xi Jinping's Communist Chinese Plan to Control the Internet's Root (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210503-leaked-documents-reveal-chinas-plan-to-control-internet-root</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, The Epoch Times reported on leaked internal Chinese government documents revealing that premier Xi Jinping has "personally directed the communist regime to focus its efforts to control the global Internet, displacing the influential role of the United States." Xi's ultimate aim is for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to wield "discourse power" over communications and discussions on the global geopolitical stage by controlling content on the Internet. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210503-leaked-documents-reveal-chinas-plan-to-control-internet-root">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Is NIST's Recent Letter on o.com a Bureaucratic Coup d'Etat? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210422-is-nists-recent-letter-on-ocom-a-bureaucratic-coup-detat</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Verisign recently informed ICANN that it had received a letter from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, regarding the proposed auction of o.com described in the Second Amendment to the .com Registry Agreement agreed to by ICANN and Verisign in March 2019. This letter, which doesn't appear to be on official letterhead, is from a NIST Grants Officer and purports to overturn a letter raising objections to the auction... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210422-is-nists-recent-letter-on-ocom-a-bureaucratic-coup-detat">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Multistakeholder Moment of Truth: Will Stakeholders Hold ICANN Accountable? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210419-will-stakeholders-hold-icann-accountable</link>
		<description><![CDATA[During the two-year period preceding the IANA transition in 2016, there was a near-superhuman effort put forth by the community of stakeholders to design, debate, and deploy an accountability framework for ICANN that would serve to check and balance the coordinator of the global DNS. One of the overriding concerns that stakeholders sought to address was the possibility of ICANN being captured, and it was argued that the global community of stakeholders would serve as a "backstop" that would hold ICANN accountable. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210419-will-stakeholders-hold-icann-accountable">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Insult and Injury of the U.S. Government's Failure to Enforce ICANN's Contractual Obligation (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210413-insult-and-injury-of-us-governments-failure-to-enforce-icann</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone recently observed that many stakeholders have fallen victim to a "chilling effect" resulting from fear of retaliation by the rich and powerful bullies currently infecting the multistakeholder community, ICANN, and Internet governance. I related to what I was hearing because I've been personally targeted and libelously attacked and it is deeply dismaying enough having to worry about threats to revenue and reputation along with other harmful effects of such thuggery. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210413-insult-and-injury-of-us-governments-failure-to-enforce-icann">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Why ICANN Rejected ISOC's Billion-Dollar Attempt At Feathering Its Own Nest With .org Sale? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210410-why-icann-rejected-isocs-billion-dollar-attempt-dot-org</link>
		<description><![CDATA[As I've pointed out in recent articles, the promises and obligations of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) are merged by direct reference into the InterNIC licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN. This licensing agreement has been extended twice by mutual consent, most recently until January 2025. Therefore, the MOU's promises and obligations remain in effect through the InterNIC licensing agreement despite the fact that the MOU itself terminated in 2009. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210410-why-icann-rejected-isocs-billion-dollar-attempt-dot-org">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> An Anti-Competitive .com Fait Accompli? (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20210406-an-anti-competitive-com-fait-accompli</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210406-an-anti-competitive-com-fait-accompli</link>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article, Is ICANN Staff Misleading the Board Into Violating Obligations to the U.S. Government, I wrote: The referenced Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is the vehicle by which the U.S. government delegates to ICANN the responsibilities for overseeing the technical management of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS)... This is important for many reasons, and much remains to be analyzed for additional context that can help expose the rot at the Internet's root. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210406-an-anti-competitive-com-fait-accompli">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Is ICANN Staff Misleading the Board Into Violating Contractual Obligations to the U.S. Government? (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20210403-is-icann-staff-misleading-board-into-violating-us-contracts</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210403-is-icann-staff-misleading-board-into-violating-us-contracts</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I had time to reflect on various matters after the alternator in my vehicle decided that the middle of a mountain pass was the appropriate time and place to go to that great big pick-and-pull scrapyard in the sky while leaving me stranded with no cell signal on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Until that point, I had been seriously considering applying to ICANN's Nominating Committee for one of the three open seats on ICANN's Board of Directors. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210403-is-icann-staff-misleading-board-into-violating-us-contracts">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-08T12:45:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN Must Release the Single-Character .com Hostages from the IANA Impostor's Warehouse (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210324-icann-must-release-the-single-character-dot-com-hostages</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the single-character .com labels were initially registered in 1993 by Dr. Jon Postel while performing work pursuant to a contract with, and funded by, the U.S. government and are currently assigned to a "shell registrar" created and controlled by ICANN. This shell - which is the 376th entry on ICANN's list of accredited registrars - is misleadingly identified as the IANA registrar while being engaged in the illicit warehousing of domain names for speculative purposes. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210324-icann-must-release-the-single-character-dot-com-hostages">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Is ICANN Running a Racket? (Featured Blog)</title>
		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://circleid.com/posts20210320-is-icann-running-a-racket</guid>
		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20210320-is-icann-running-a-racket</link>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 13, 2019, I published an article on CircleID, Portrait of a Single-Character Domain Name, that explored the proposed release and auction of o.com, a single-character .com domain name that was registered in 1993 and assigned to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) by Dr. Jon Postel. Although the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has since raised serious objections... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20210320-is-icann-running-a-racket">More...</a>]]></description>
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