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March 19, 2010

ICANN Takes Wrong Turn on New TLD Contracts

By |March 10th, 2010|Categories: Blog, Uncategorized|

When ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate-Thrush, an accomplished attorney, said last year that he wouldn't let one of his own clients agree to a contract that could be unilaterally changed after it was signed, the Internet community breathed a sigh of relief. But when the Chairman backed away from that stance earlier this week in Nairobi, it became clear that we should have held our breath a little bit longer.

Free Press forgets Day Job, Decides to become Small Business Advocacy Group

By |March 5th, 2010|Categories: Blog|Tags: , |

Today, Free Press, an organization dedicated to free speech and media on the internet, decided to take on the mantle of a small business advocacy group, without bothering to look what small business actually needs. Free Press called for the FCC to "take immediate action to solve to competition problem", but what they want would not result in a single new piece of dark fiber being lit, or even one new rack of edge caching servers being bought. Instead, more lawyers will be paid to argue about new ways to regulate an industry that is already regulated.

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