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By Michael Palage & Berin Szoka Over the next month, the ICANN Board will consider its options for ensuring that some framework is in place to ensure ICANN's accountability to the global Internet community after the approaching expiration of its Memorandum of Understanding and Joint Project Agreement (MOU/JPA) with the U.S. Department of Commerce. We analyze these options in our new paper, " Choosing the Right Path to a Permanent Accountability Framework for ICANN ." We urge the ICA

Key Sedo leader and ICA president names to prestigious list. Sedo chief operating officer and general counsel Jeremiah Johnston has been named to the 2009 Boston Business Journal 40 Under 40. This prestigious list recognizes 40 people under the age of 40 that have been recognized as leaders and are “people to watch” in their respective fields. A company press release describes Johnston’s success at Sedo as well as his civic involvement: “As a company, Sedo prides itself on cr

The following is the report on the ICANN forum on the new URS proposal which was held in New York Yesterday by Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association , (the “ICA”) that attended to represent domainers interests: Here are Mr. Corwin comments: “”"” On Monday, July 13th, ICANN opened its global consultation summer road show on Broadway in the ornate Hudson Theatre in the Millennium Hotel. The show was very low in entertainment value and, while the orchestra seating was fairly well

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) filed a “friend of the court” brief yesterday on the Kentucky domain name seizure. ica-amicus-brief (Adobe Reader Required) The brief attacks the governor action on several grounds. First the Kentucky law which was cited by the state in taking the action relates to “Mechanical Gambling Devices” which domains simply are not under the state law’s definition. Second the brief attacks the ruling for referring to domain names as property. The brief points

The Internet Commerce Association is aware of the extreme concern of ICA members regarding the action of Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear ordering the seizure of 141 gaming related domain names. It appears that there may be no statutory basis for this unprecedented action, that Kentucky may lack sufficient jurisdictional grounds and that it also may violate the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. The ICA intends to immediately investigate this matter, including outreach to affected ICA memb