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  <title><![CDATA[CircleID]]></title>
  <link>https://circleid.com/topics/internet_governance</link>
  <description>CircleID - Internet Governance</description>
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  <dc:rights>Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-22T18:08:00+00:00</dc:date>

  
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Africa Keeps Relearning the Same Digital Lessons]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/why&#45;africa&#45;keeps&#45;relearning&#45;the&#45;same&#45;digital&#45;lessons</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Africa's digital transformation challenge is not a lack of strategies or research, but weak institutional learning that prevents governments from preserving project lessons, applying evidence and avoiding repeated failures across administrations and technology programs.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-26T06:59:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[US AI Policy Applies Two Scales at Home and Abroad]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/us&#45;ai&#45;policy&#45;applies&#45;two&#45;scales&#45;at&#45;home&#45;and&#45;abroad</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The danger the White House dismisses at home has justified restricting frontier models abroad. Now, as Trump meets Xi Jinping, competing forces within his administration could determine who writes global AI rules and in what register.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-22T08:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN Comment Period Closes on Linking gTLDs With Alternative Naming Systems]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;comment&#45;period&#45;closes&#45;on&#45;linking&#45;gtlds&#45;with&#45;alternative&#45;naming&#45;systems</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN is closing consultation on technical rules for linking gTLDs with matching alternative naming systems, as commenters debate controller requirements, security safeguards, policy boundaries and protections for existing registrations.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-21T08:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Governance Theater: Why the gTLD Expansion Program Is a Lose-Lose Proposition]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/governance&#45;theater&#45;why&#45;the&#45;gtld&#45;expansion&#45;program&#45;is&#45;a&#45;lose&#45;lose&#45;proposition</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN's gTLD expansion program is structured to collect fees regardless of outcomes, leaving brand, portfolio and single-string applicants bearing financial risk while accountability mechanisms offer little meaningful remedy when the process fails.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-18T08:34:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Two Years After His Arrest, Pavel Durov Wants to Run His Own Registry]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/two&#45;years&#45;after&#45;his&#45;arrest&#45;pavel&#45;durov&#45;wants&#45;to&#45;run&#45;his&#45;own&#45;registry</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Telegram says it has applied for .gram, potentially giving a billion users DNS addresses while putting its governance, abuse controls, legal exposure and infrastructure under scrutiny as ICANN prepares to reveal applications.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-15T10:04:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Caribbean-Born Niel Harper Joins ICANN Board, Sets Out Priorities in Q&amp;A]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/caribbean&#45;born&#45;niel&#45;harper&#45;joins&#45;icann&#45;board</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Barbados-born cybersecurity specialist Niel Harper joins ICANN's board in October, aiming to strengthen Latin American and Caribbean participation, improve DNS security and abuse mitigation, and expand developing-economy access to the next gTLD round.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-10T08:42:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN Accountability Without gTLD Remedies Is Just Documentation]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/accountability&#45;without&#45;remedy&#45;is&#45;just&#45;documentation</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Past gTLD disputes show applicants can win ICANN accountability rulings without obtaining the contested string, raising a critical question for 2026 applicants about whether expanded review mechanisms can deliver meaningful remedies.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-09T12:55:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[When a Link Becomes a Border: The Quiet Geopolitics of Internet Access]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/when&#45;a&#45;link&#45;becomes&#45;a&#45;border&#45;the&#45;quiet&#45;geopolitics&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;access</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A LinkedIn short-link anomaly in Iran reveals how sanctions, corporate compliance and geolocation controls can translate geopolitical boundaries into infrastructure-level restrictions, creating an Internet that remains globally connected while becoming functionally unequal.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-05T11:15:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thirty-Five Years Later, Moscow Comes Looking for the Soviet Union&#8217;s Domain]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/thirty&#45;five&#45;years&#45;later&#45;moscow&#45;comes&#45;looking&#45;for&#45;the&#45;soviet&#45;unions&#45;domain</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Russia is imposing state identity verification on .su, the Soviet Union's surviving domain, as researchers uncover criminal infrastructure across the namespace and ICANN pursues a retirement process that could eventually remove it from the global root.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-01T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Researchers Warn EU AI Rules Are Deepening Reliance on Big Tech]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/researchers&#45;warn&#45;eu&#45;ai&#45;rules&#45;are&#45;deepening&#45;reliance&#45;on&#45;big&#45;tech</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Researchers argue the EU's AI framework increasingly makes major technology companies co-stewards of regulation, raising concerns that reliance on private infrastructure and technical expertise could strengthen incumbents' influence over how AI rules are implemented.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-31T15:15:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Digital Embassies: Could Africa Rethink Digital Sovereignty?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/digital&#45;embassies&#45;could&#45;africa&#45;rethink&#45;digital&#45;sovereignty</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Estonia's data embassy model offers African governments a different approach to digital sovereignty, combining cross-border infrastructure, legal safeguards and geographic redundancy to keep critical state systems secure, recoverable and operational during major disruptions.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-31T09:24:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Is Rewriting the Internet. But in Whose Language?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/ai&#45;is&#45;rewriting&#45;the&#45;internet&#45;but&#45;in&#45;whose&#45;language</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI is becoming a gateway to the internet, but thousands of languages remain excluded. Closing the gap requires multilingual infrastructure, representative training data and policies that make linguistic inclusion a foundation of the AI era.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-27T11:20:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beyond Protocol and Policy: Why Project Jake is Reshaping the Architecture of Internet Trust]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/beyond&#45;protocol&#45;and&#45;policy&#45;why&#45;project&#45;jake&#45;is&#45;reshaping&#45;the&#45;architecture&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;trust</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Project Jake aims to bridge the divide between internet protocols and policy, offering registries, law enforcement and rights holders a decentralised framework for accessing domain-registration data securely while navigating privacy laws and institutional gridlock.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-24T10:49:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/dns&#45;abuse&#45;and&#45;criminal&#45;infrastructure&#45;beyond&#45;definitions&#45;and&#45;blocklists</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Research suggests criminals may control a striking share of newly registered gTLD domains, raising questions about whether ICANN's definitions, contractual safeguards and enforcement mechanisms are keeping pace with the industrial scale of technology-facilitated harm.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-21T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[After the Close: What the 2026 gTLD Round Has Already Revealed]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/after&#45;the&#45;close&#45;what&#45;the&#45;2026&#45;gtld&#45;round&#45;has&#45;already&#45;revealed</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN's 2026 gTLD round drew more than 1,600 applications, led by ambitious portfolio investors. But scant brand disclosures and new rules banning private settlements could make contention costlier and reshape the economics of domain ownership.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-19T09:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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