Zak Muscovitch talks about how ICANN went wrong.
Internet Commerce Association general counsel Zak Muscovitch comes on the show to talk about ICANN’s misstep on recent contract renewals and how it could impact domain name registrants. What can be done to prevent this from happening in the future?
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Ombudsman DFN “an official appointed to investigate individuals’ complaints against maladministration, especially that of public authorities”
So ICANN reversed that by having the ombudsman judge submissions, in effect neutering the position and ending the ability of registrants to hold ICANN accountable (through that office).
Folks wanted ICANN to be supranational, and have received the lack of accountability one would think would come with that move.
Zak is the real MVP.
Have a good time in Geneva!
Who in ICANN or what committee members of ICANN were on this decision? We need to pull out the names and ask them to back up there decisions.. IF they can hide, then we will continue to have horrible people running the Internet.
Don’t see the contract as valid obtained by a significant divergence of written public policy
Time to replace ICANNdowhatiwant
With the organization’s mentioned.
Thanks for the great update !
Cheers