Published Exclusively for CircleID. Part of the ICANN & Governance Series Kenya already had a chance at an African domain. It did not end well. The Citizen Kenya recently ran a piece encouraging ICANN’s 2026 gTLD round as an opportunity for Kenya to run custom web domains and strengthen its digital identity. Someone brought it […]
Kenya Lost .africa. Here Is the Story The Citizen Kenya Left Out Read More »
Published Exclusively for CircleID. Part of the ICANN & Governance Series Whose Precedent Gets Remembered in the Multistakeholder model I read Amin Dayekh’s piece on the Constituent Community Doctrine a few weeks ago and recognized every mechanism he described and found it real. I left a comment laying out what happened with .africa. He responded saying he is already
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Published Exclusively for CircleID. Part of the ICANN & Governance Series The ICANN Wiki Case Study and the Governance of Institutional Memory The integrity of digital history is becoming one of the defining governance challenges of the AI era. Every day, platforms edit, revise, and remove information. Most corrections improve accuracy. Some quietly alter
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10 Years. 55,000 Domains. 1.5 Billion People. A Performance Review Africa Deserves — As the 2026 gTLD Round Opens. March 20, 2026 This article is part of the.africa Commentary Series — a living archive of analysis, precedent, and warnings from the architect of the .africa domain. Executive Summary: ICANN’s new gTLD application round is now
Did the AUC-Aligned ZACR Actually Deliver .africa? Read More »
First published on CircleID — March 6, 2026Part of the ICANN & Governance Series → A Stanford research scholar asks whether the multi-stakeholder model can guide AI. The record of more than a dozen IRPs offers answers he hasn’t considered. Charles Mok’s recent CircleID article, “Do We Need Alignment Between Internet Governance and AI Governance?”,
February 21, 2026This article is part of the .africa Commentary Series — a living archive of analysis, precedent, and warning from the architect of the .africa domain. In 2015, we won an Independent Review Process against ICANN. The IRP panel ruled that the ICANN Board had violated its own bylaws by failing to conduct due
Estoppel Blocks Courts, Not History: The .africa Case Read More »