Rick Lane·Nov 3When the Real Website Becomes the Scam: Why Congress Must Secure the Domain Name SystemThe latest DNS hijacking attacks expose a dangerous vulnerability in America’s digital infrastructure and show that ICANN’s voluntary…
Kiell Tampubolon·Oct 15From DNS Security Trainer to ICANN87 Fellow: What a Cybersecurity Engineer Looks for in Bali —…In July 2024 I sat in a training room in Nusa Dua with a laptop and too many DNS diagrams. PANDI, the registry that runs Indonesia’s .id…
Kellie Peterson·Oct 8Automattic Wants .wordpress. It Doesn’t Own WordPress.ICANN published the full list of 2026 top-level domain applications this week. All 2,783 of them. I went looking for one string out of…A response icon1A response icon1
Wisnu D·Oct 1What to Expect from ICANN87: Who Really Governs the Internet, and What [I]Can[N] Do About It?For Tuvalu, one of the world’s smallest countries, a few letters at the end of a web address have become an unlikely source of government…
Gbemisola Esho·Sep 15When a Nigerian Professor Builds a Keyboard, She Solves a Universal Acceptance ProblemThe invention of Linguascript is not just about language preservation — it is a real-world demonstration of why Universal Acceptance…
Enrique Somoza, D.Sc.·Sep 101,600 Applications Later: What Will Decide Which New TLDs LastICANN closed the 2026 application window on August 12 with more than 1,600 primary applications. That is fewer than the 1,930 submitted in…
Amin Dayekh·Jul 31Who Is “the Community”? The Missing Constitutional Question in Multistakeholder Internet GovernanceThis article introduces the independently published working paper, Who Is the Community? Toward a Constituent Community Doctrine for…
Amin Dayekh·Jul 17Continuity Is Not Legitimacy: Why Internet Institutions Need a Governance Stress TestAuthor’s note: This article introduces a longer working paper, The Governance Stress-Test Doctrine for Internet Institutions, Version 1.0 —…
Amin Dayekh·May 22Facilitation Without Responsibility: ICANN and the Missing Warning Question | Part 3 of 3Parts One and Two moved the issue beyond authorship. Part One asked whether ICANN warned, corrected, and recorded the boundary when an…
Amin Dayekh·May 19Facilitation Without Responsibility: ICANN and the Missing Warning Question | Part 2 of 3Part One argued that the ICANN-Smart Africa-CAIGA episode should not be judged only through the narrow lens of authorship, funding, or…