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	<dc:date>2026-04-06T20:04:00+00:00</dc:date>

	
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		<title> ICANN Should Keep Content Regulation and Other Arbitrary Rules Out of Registry Contracts (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The domain name system is not the place to police speech. ICANN is legally bound not to act as the Internet's speech police, but its legal commitments are riddled with exceptions, and aspiring censors have already used those exceptions in harmful ways. This was one factor that made the failed takeover of the .ORG registry such a dangerous situation. But now, ICANN has an opportunity to curb this abuse and recommit to its narrow mission of keeping the DNS running... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20201123-icann-should-keep-content-regulation-out-of-registry-contracts">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Preserving ICANN's Independence Through Bold Action – Not Inaction (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the ICANN Board will vote on whether to approve the transfer of control of the .ORG domain to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital. This is a weighty decision for ICANN, since in order to approve the sale, it will have to convince itself that this is the right choice in the face of tremendous and widespread opposition, including from those who will be most affected by the sale. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20200429-preserving-icanns-independence-through-bold-action-not-inaction">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> NGO Community Urges ICANN to Exercise Independent Judgment as It Reviews the .ORG Sale (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICANN is reviewing the Internet Society's proposed sale of Public Interest Registry, the .ORG registry operator, to private equity firm Ethos Capital. ICANN effectively has the power to stop the sale by terminating PIR's Registry Agreement. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, NTEN, Consumer Reports, Americans for Financial Reform and several other organizations joined Monday's Public Forum at ICANN67 to ask questions about how ICANN plans to review the change of control of the .ORG registry... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20200311-ngo-community-urges-icann-to-exercise-independent-judgment-dot-org">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Healthy Domains Initiative Isn't Healthy for the Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had high hopes that the Domain Name Association's Healthy Domains Initiative (HDI) wouldn't be just another secretive industry deal between rightsholders and domain name intermediaries. Toward that end, we and other civil society organizations worked in good faith on many fronts to make sure HDI protected Internet users as well. Those efforts seem to have failed. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20170213_healthy_domains_initiative_isnt_healthy_for_the_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
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