ICANN's core principles and the expansion of generic top-level domain names

Easton, Catherine

doi:10.1093/ijlit/eas013

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“…While resulting in peculiar examples of communities, the new gTLD programme is presented as consistent with ICANN’s core principles of stability, competition and private, bottom-up coordination (Easton, 2012). It is meant to ‘open up the top level of the Internet’s namespace to foster diversity, encourage competition, and enhance the utility of the DNS’ (ICANN, 2012), building upon the last few decades of the ICANN-WIPO regime.…”

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ICANN’s dotCommunities: Analysing the construction of DNS-appropriate communities in the new gTLD programme

Kuznetsov

2020

New Media & Society

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This study investigates Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN) new generic top-level domain (gTLD) programme, exploring how it a shape of ‘community’ suitable for domain name system (DNS) expansion is constituted. Despite the apparent goal of promoting rights to freedom of expression and free association, the prevalence of the controlled vocabulary model results in preference for unopposed entities with clear hierarchical structures and strict membership boundaries. This creates a TLD landscape incapable of encompassing the heterogeneity and uncertainty of many existing communities, but helps to reinforce ICANN’s discourse surrounding the function of the DNS and its role in Internet governance.

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ICANN’s dotCommunities: Analysing the construction of DNS-appropriate communities in the new gTLD programme

Kuznetsov

2020

New Media & Society

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“…In 2014, the United States (US) government announced that it would give up its long‐standing delegation contract with the private Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Numbers (ICANN) (Wyatt ). The US government created ICANN in 1998 and delegated the important Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that, inter alia, included the management of internet protocol (IP) addresses and domain names, which made ICANN the central institution for maintaining the stability and interoperability of the globally unique internet identifiers (Easton , p. 273).…”

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When public principals give up control over private agents: The new independence of ICANN in internet governance

Becker

2019

Regulation & Governance

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In 2016, the United States (US) government relinquished its long-standing delegation contract with the Internet Corporation for Assignment of Names and Numbers (ICANN), a private organization that governs the technical infrastructure of the internet. This presents a puzzle as the US not only gave up a power resource, but also relinquished the possibility, as a public principal, to hold the private agent ICANN accountable. I argue that public principals have incentives to leave control in the hands of private stakeholders when a delegation contract is exposed to external pressure by powerful outside states and the probability of extensive policy changes by the privatized agent is limited. The analysis shows that the unilateral US control over ICANN was strongly challenged by other states and private actors. Instead of granting a greater role to rising powers in internet governance, the US gave up its unilateral influence after internal reforms limited the risk that an independent ICANN could deviate too far from former policies.

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General Principles of Public Order and Morality and the Domain Name System: Whither Public International Law?

Rachovitsa

2016

Neth Int Law Rev

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ICANN's core principles and the expansion of generic top-level domain names

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ICANN’s dotCommunities: Analysing the construction of DNS-appropriate communities in the new gTLD programme

ICANN’s dotCommunities: Analysing the construction of DNS-appropriate communities in the new gTLD programme

When public principals give up control over private agents: The new independence of ICANN in internet governance

General Principles of Public Order and Morality and the Domain Name System: Whither Public International Law?

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