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SaveDotOrg Protest Outside ICANN HQ

January 24, 2020 by Michele Neylon

This morning’s protest outside ICANN’s headquarters is in full swing.

I’m currently attending a meeting in the vicinity, but not close enough to actually see the protest. Fortunately a friend is there and sent me a couple of photos.

As of around 945 am local there’s about 15 to 20 people at the protest as well as a few onlookers including media.

Apparently they’re shouting a few slogans related to what’s on their placards.

I’m also hearing that ICANN Staff will not be meeting with the protesters.

It’ll be interesting to see how the event organisers report this.

@doctorow speaks to a crowd outside of @ICANN to stop the corportate takeover of 10 million websites. #savedotorg pic.twitter.com/0bCeJJnYRo

— Fight for the Future (@fightfortheftr) January 24, 2020

The protest is meant to run for another hour or so and more people have been joining the group outside the ICANN offices.

Update:

Kieren McCarthy who covers ICANN for The Register is at the protest as well and has been tweeting a few insights:

#ICANN protest at its HQ slowly growing. Protesters chanting “ICANN, you can, stop the sale.” They are here to deliver 24,000 signatures from people opposed to the sale of .org. ICANN had offered to meet the protestors to hear their concerns, then rescinded at last minute

— Kieren McCarthy (@kierenmccarthy) January 24, 2020

Worth noting that I have asked ICANN for an interview four times over 8 days to explain its stance on the sale of .org. Still yet to receive a response. Entire board and staff inside building in LA with protestors outside. No one has come out

— Kieren McCarthy (@kierenmccarthy) January 24, 2020

EFF folks and Cory Doctorow are surprisingly knowledgeable about how the domain name system works

— Kieren McCarthy (@kierenmccarthy) January 24, 2020

UPDATE

ICANN Board Chair Maarten Botterman met with the protesters and collected their petition. He also addressed them briefly:

We got the @ICANN board to meet us! @amyrsward delivered the 30k+ signatures. Good first step. #SaveDotOrg @NTENorg @EFF @fightfortheftr @demandprogress pic.twitter.com/aszchK1X8c

— Russ Feldman (@russforce) January 24, 2020

Photos via Owen.

Filed Under: icann Tagged With: dotorg, icann, 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.

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  1. Norbert G says

    January 26, 2020 at 1:13 am

    Very good that ICANN board finally met protesters and received yhe 30k+ protest texts.

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