* Or so the leading bloggers from the venture capital, silicon valley, and entrepreneurial worlds are screaming today. By the looks of Techmeme's front page this morning, the tech startup world was hit by a bomb last night. Based on a quick read, it looks like the VC world is [...]
ACT president Jonathan Zuck took part in yesterday's Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers meeting in Washington to discuss "Institutional Confidence" as the organization looks toward a future without US government oversight. Jonathan expressed our belief that ICANN has never really addressed the concerns of industry, civil society, and [...]
Is the war of ideologies, finger-pointing, and childish rhetoric finally over? Can those interested in solving problems and finding common ground in the Network Neutrality debate finally come out of their panic rooms? Well, it’s probably not time to start turning the panic room in a home gym just yet [...]
Thomas Vinje, the longtime legal hitman for anti-Microsoft front groups, used the forum of a United Nations conference on Internet Governance to try to re-launch a baseless campaign against Microsoft today. He urged government regulators to start new competition cases against Microsoft becaus of the growing use of Microsoft’s .NET [...]
Domain name tasting was on today's ICANN agenda at the meeting in LA. The GNSO Council, which represents commercial and noncommercial interests, considered this unsavory issue and voted to take a more thorough look at domain name tasting. What is domain name tasting? It refers to an abusive practice in [...]
