multistakeholder governance

Polictical Interference, ICANN GAC, Kenya

Kenya Lost .africa. Here Is the Story The Citizen Kenya Left Out

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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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Infographic showing the precedent chain from DotConnectAfrica Trust v. ICANN IRP Final Declaration, Paragraph 74 (2015) to Amazon EU v. ICANN IRP Final Declaration, Paragraph 88 (2017), with the caption: One ruling. Cited. Applied. Endures."

Whose Precedent Gets Remembered? Selective Amplification Has Its Own Amnesia

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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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