• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Domain Industry & Internet News

Domain Industry & Internet News

Domain Name Industry News

  • Home
  • About
  • Archives
  • Submit News
  • Comment Policy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise Hosting & Domain Industry Jobs
You are here: Home / icann / Save Dot Org Campaign to Picket ICANN HQ

Save Dot Org Campaign to Picket ICANN HQ

January 16, 2020 by Michele Neylon

One of the campaigns that has been working against the sale of PIR and the .org registry under the “Save dot Org” moniker is planning to picket ICANN’s headquarters in LA.

savedotorg picket

Save Dot Org are planning on picketing the Los Angeles’ offices of ICANN on Friday January 24th:

Date: Friday, January 24, 2020
Time: 9 am – 11 am
Location: ICANN, 12025 Waterfront Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90094
Needs: Come as you are. We’ll have shirts and signs, and you are welcome to make your own!

More details here.

What the event organiser hope to achieve with this protest is unclear.

Their call to action seems to be to demand somehow that ICANN involve them in the process:

Don’t let a private equity firm take over .ORG! Join us in demanding that ICANN commit to a process that includes the voices and priorities of nonprofits and grassroots organizations. The .ORG domain isn’t up for sale without our participation.

However that’s not how this kind of process works. ICANN cannot “simply” insert itself and 3rd parties into mergers and acquisitions. As ICANN has outlined in several blog posts and letters, they are going to follow their processes. And historically there have been changes of control and ownership of both registries and registrars which have not involved 3rd parties.

So why would ICANN suddenly change this?

Oddly enough I’ll be in LA next week, but I probably won’t have time to watch this play out.

Filed Under: icann, registries Tagged With: dotorg, icann, los angeles, pir

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Andrew says

    January 16, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    You’re right, that’s “not how ICANN works”. But you can also argue that a lot of stuff that has happened at ICANN is “now how ICANN works”. Like ICANN org deciding to move legacy TLDs to the new TLD contract and inserting provisions of the new TLD contract (e.g. URS), deciding to remove price caps from certain TLDs through what was not a bottoms-up process, etc. I think it’s too late to stop the .org transfer because it’s in the contracts, but if someone wants to call attention to it, that my spur future participation within the “correct” process in the future. That would be a good thing.

    • Michele Neylon says

      January 17, 2020 at 10:01 am

      Andrew

      The contract change and the PIR sale are two different things.

      While I can appreciate the arguments about the contract change I don’t see how ICANN is meant to insert itself into a private transaction.

      The SaveDotOrg campaign seem to think that they can force ICANN to block the sale and somehow insert themselves into that process, which I honestly do not understand.

      Michele

      • Andrew says

        January 17, 2020 at 4:08 pm

        ICANN is “in” this private transaction: it is a party to the registry contract and has to give its approval. Whether or not it can “reasonably” withhold its approval is a legal argument. (My guess is not, but I’m not a lawyer.) So I can understand why SaveDotOrg would apply pressure to ICANN, as it’s the only party that could stop the transfer. While I don’t think the picketing will do anything, I think it’s good whenever a group sheds light on things that are going on at ICANN. If nothing else, perhaps some of these parties opposed to the deal will get more involved in the ICANN process going forward.

        • Michele Neylon says

          January 19, 2020 at 5:41 pm

          Andrew

          Sure, but it would make more sense to me for people to try and fix the issues they see where they can actually be fixed.
          And I’d love to see more people getting involved with ICANN constructively going forward, but it’s unlikely to happen.

          Michele

          • Pedro La Papa says

            January 22, 2020 at 5:23 pm

            Who knows, maybe we will have more pickets. Something like: “Follow the bottom-up MS ICANN process or there will be Pickets,” It works with governments that betray their legitimacy.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Articles

ICANN’s Cancún Meeting Was Almost Normal

Middle East DNS Forum to be Held in Istanbul

Gandi Merges with TWS to Form “Your.Online”

Anguilla Offline due to Fibre Issue

IGF 2023 to be Held in Kyoto, Japan

Recent Comments

  • ICANN Gets First Female CEO on Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
  • Kieren McCarthy Elected to Nominet Board on Nominet Election Candidates 2022 Finally Announced
  • Michele Neylon on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • Gavin Brown on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • ICANN Heading to Hamburg (ICANN78) and Los Angeles (GDD) Plus Training For African Registries - Goldstein Report on ICANN Announces GDD Summit Dates & Location

Categories

Blogroll

  • Alex Bligh
  • Circle ID
  • Domain Incite
  • Domain Name News
  • Domain Name Wire
  • Jason Thompson

Blogs

  • Domain Gang
  • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Archives

Recent Comments

  • ICANN Gets First Female CEO on Centralnic Head Honcho Announces Immediate Retirement
  • Kieren McCarthy Elected to Nominet Board on Nominet Election Candidates 2022 Finally Announced
  • Michele Neylon on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • Gavin Brown on Nominet Taking RDAP Out of Beta
  • ICANN Heading to Hamburg (ICANN78) and Los Angeles (GDD) Plus Training For African Registries - Goldstein Report on ICANN Announces GDD Summit Dates & Location

Categories

Blogroll

  • Alex Bligh
  • Circle ID
  • Domain Incite
  • Domain Name News
  • Domain Name Wire
  • Jason Thompson
  • Nigel Roberts

Blogs

  • Domain Gang
  • Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Copyright © 2023 InternetNews.me