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		<title>Is the dark side of new gTLDs starting to emerge?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I received a highly unusual email claiming that an article on my personal website was libellous and insisting I take it down within a week.
Even more unusually, the article was from 2002 &#8211; yes nearly a decade ago &#8211; it is called &#8220;Domain scam merchants get legs sucked by toothless OFT&#8221; and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2012/04/18/is-the-dark-side-of-new-gtlds-starting-to-emerge/</link>
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		<title>My analysis of the broken ICANN culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote an extensive review of the dot-jobs saga earlier this week on .Nxt called: The case study that could kill ICANN.
This afternoon, I saw the Stephane van Gelder had referenced it in a blog post: What ICANN is doing wrong.
I wrote a lengthy response to Stephane&#8217;s post, but for some reason it repeatedly could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2012/01/13/my-analysis-of-the-broken-icann-culture/</link>
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		<title>So what does that weird GAC wording actually mean?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The ICANN Board just published the minutes from its meeting on Tuesday and intriguingly it has formally &#8220;triggered&#8221; the GAC-Board consultation that is explained in greater depth below. 
That means the Board is prepared to say it disagrees with the GAC on 17 March and then, presumably, will approve the Applicant Guidebook at its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/01/27/so-what-does-that-weird-gac-wording-actually-mean/</link>
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		<title>A damaged process and a damaged community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t written for a while. There&#8217;s usually two reasons for that: either I have been horribly over-worked, or I need a break from the strange, incestuous and often bitter world of Internet policy and governance. In this case, unusually, it is both. 
Here&#8217;s the big news from the world of Internet governance: some vague [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2011/01/25/a-damaged-process-and-a-damaged-community/</link>
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		<title>Sex.com sold (again) for $13m</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A set of three documents filed in California Bankruptcy Court earlier this week reveal that the world&#8217;s most valuable domain name &#8211; Sex.com &#8211; has been sold for $13m, just one million dollars more than it was sold for back in January 2006.
The tale of Sex.com is a fascinating and complex one (I wrote a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/10/20/sex-com-sold-again-for-13m/</link>
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		<title>Finishing up the rules for new Internet extensions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two very interesting things are happening today that may have an enormous impact on the Internet for many years to come.
First, the ICANN Board is meeting at a special two-day retreat in Trondheim, Norway, in an effort to finalise the rules for new Internet extensions. This process have been going on for more than five [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/09/24/finishing-up-the-rules-for-new-internet-extensions/</link>
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		<title>Dot-xxx to be approved tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The domain name system’s overseeing body, ICANN, will approve the controversial Internet extension dot-xxx, designed for online pornography, at its Board meeting tomorrow. 
The pre-announcement came in an extraordinary statement read out at the start of the public forum at ICANN’s meeting in Brussels by the organization’s general counsel, John Jeffrey.
The statement said that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/06/24/dot-xxx-to-be-approved-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>Why ICANN doesn’t need to go back to the GAC over dot-xxx</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, it looks as though the ICANN Board will follow the clear conclusions drawn by its independent review and approve dot-xxx. 
Given the importance of the first use of the review process, the importance of the Board being seen to be accountable and the fact that the community was pretty unanimous in recent public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/06/23/why-icann-doesn%e2%80%99t-need-to-go-back-to-the-gac-over-dot-xxx/</link>
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		<title>ICANN&#8217;s Big Night Out, Morning After plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN released the fourth version of its Applicant Guidebook this week. The process has been going on for so long with so many endless controversies and scandals, that those that actually want to apply for a new Internet extension have developed an amusing gallows humour.
I&#8217;ve just been sent a doctored version of a slide purporting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/06/03/icanns-big-night-out-morning-after-plan/</link>
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		<title>Summary/analysis of dot-xxx issue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the past week going through literally thousands of comments about whether there should be a new dot-xxx Internet extension for pornography. You won&#8217;t be surprised to hear it has brought out some strong feelings.
Anyway, the company behind the application, ICM Registry, hired me to write an objective summary of what was said. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/05/18/summaryanalysis-of-dot-xxx-issue/</link>
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