Published First on Linkedin Part of the ICANN & Governance Series What Every 2026 gTLD Applicant Should Know Before Entering the Game A note to readers: I want to bring ICANN to the public square. It has been an industry widely unknown, operating eccentrically in its own bubble where checks and balances seem to exist only […]
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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
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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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