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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5zSjYcMdU4uR7DHjzRbuImQniU-Pvd57mtgLisvv_fCq-Rm9BZz9EZIP_KvyAVM2gUOtY4lLGzlhgMzZ6dp0I254zZ8K8K-oyBrO_oEPu1lRFbpxAkkTe-qQD22AyOOAmLKrvxsCWwec/s1600/blueline_640x12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="12" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5zSjYcMdU4uR7DHjzRbuImQniU-Pvd57mtgLisvv_fCq-Rm9BZz9EZIP_KvyAVM2gUOtY4lLGzlhgMzZ6dp0I254zZ8K8K-oyBrO_oEPu1lRFbpxAkkTe-qQD22AyOOAmLKrvxsCWwec/s1600/blueline_640x12.png" /></a></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>News Review Postscript Updates & Selected Comments:</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-altanovo-v-icann-2023-10-26-en" target="_blank">The ICANN & Verisign .WEB Fiasco</a></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b>(latest developments)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">DomainMondo.com Editor's comments on circleid.com </span><a href="https://circleid.com/members/7402/comments/" target="_blank">here</a>, most recent <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20230307-new-gtld-availability-inching-closer-to-reality#13265" target="_blank"><b>Who owns a gTLD?</b></a> and <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20230103-2022-domain-name-year-in-review#13240" target="_blank"><b>ICANN, grifters & new gTLDs</b></a>; as well as </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2023/01/27/maserati-gone-car-company-cancels-five-top-level-domains/#comment-2277794" target="_blank"><b>.BRAND has always been an ICANN SCAM</b></a><b>;</b></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20220329-the-status-quo-of-the-domain-industry-in-2022#13190" target="_blank">New gTLDs & ICANN Insanity</a>;</b> </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20220919-icanns-accountability-and-transparency-a-retrospective-on-the-iana-transition#13218" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>ICANN is a FAILED Organization</b></a><b>;</b> </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Editor's <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN Transfer Policy</span> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IHW_5gXbB0-53RKkD1jciHH-RjeSxmrO/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Comment</a></b> (pdf).</li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">See also <b><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/baker-to-dengate-thrush-18dec08-en.pdf" target="_blank">DOJ Antitrust Div. Legal Advice given to ICANN</a> </b>(pp. 4-11), and editor's <a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2022/07/26/can-registries-change-the-pricing-tiers-of-your-premium-domains/#comment-2276520" target="_blank">comment re: new gTLDs</a>. </div><span><b><div style="color: #cccccc;"><span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></b></span></div></b></span><div><span style="color: #01ffff;">Earnings Webcasts</span><span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">:</span></b></span></b></span> <b><a href="https://investor.verisign.com/events-and-presentations/events" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Verisign</a></b> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ%3A+VRSN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">$VRSN</a> 4:30pm EST, Feb 08, 2024<span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">; </span></b></span><b><a href="https://aboutus.godaddy.net/investor-relations/events-and-presentations/default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GoDaddy</a> </b>(date/time) <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3A+GDDY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">$GDDY</a>. </div><div><u>Also note</u> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">July 11, 2023: </span></b><i>"<span style="color: #ffa400;">Shares of <b>VeriSign Inc.</b> dropped -5.4% toward a near three-month low</span>, enough to pace the S&P 500's decliners, after <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Baird</b> turned bearish </span>on the domain name registry services company, citing <u>concerns over domain growth</u>."</i>--<a href="https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20230711352/verisign-stock-sinks-to-lead-sp-500s-losers-after-baird-cuts-rating-price-target">Morningstar.com</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i><b>Read</b></i> </span><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/09/website-domain-more-expensive-00023524" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why your website is about to get more expensive | Politico.com</a> -- <i>Verisign, the government-backed monopoly that manages the .com domain, plans to raise prices this fall. And the year after that. And the year after that -- </i> <span style="color: #ffa400;"><i>Read also this</i></span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">excerpt from</span> <a href="https://investor.verisign.com/static-files/68aa7f1b-5035-452f-914e-10fd77b28a0e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Verisign Q3 FORM 10-Q</a>:</div><div><blockquote>"On October 26, 2018, Verisign and the DOC [US Department of Commerce] amended the <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/verisign-cooperative-agreement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cooperative Agreement</a>. The amendment, among other items, extends the term of the Cooperative Agreement until November 30, 2024 and permits the price of a .com domain name to be increased, subject to appropriate changes to the .com Registry Agreement, without further DOC approval, by up to 7% in each of the final four years of each six-year period beginning on October 26, 2018. On March 27, 2020, Verisign and ICANN amended the .com Registry Agreement that, among other items, incorporates these changes agreed to with the DOC to the pricing terms. Effective September 1, 2021, we increased the annual registry-level wholesale fee for each new and renewal .com domain name registration from $7.85 to $8.39. We have the contractual right to increase the fees for .net domain name registrations by up to 10% each year during the term of our agreement with ICANN, through June 30, 2023. All fees paid to us for .com and .net registrations are in U.S. dollars." [link added]</blockquote></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><span style="color: #01ffff; font-weight: bold;">.WEB UPDATES: </span></span></span><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20211228-irp-panel-sanctions-afilias-clears-the-way-for-icann-to-decide-.web-disputes#13116" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Editor's comment Dec 29, 2021 | circleid.com</a> and <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20230103-2022-domain-name-year-in-review#13240" target="_blank">Jan 4, 2023</a>: <i>"with .WEB serving as the leading example of just how incompetent, corrupt, and captured, ICANN and its processes truly are, and how inept ICANN’s new gTLDs program is, has been, and will continue to be ..."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">2023 Apr 30</span> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/board-activities-and-meetings/materials/approved-resolutions-regular-meeting-of-the-icann-board-30-04-2023-en#section2.e" target="_blank">ICANN Board</a> <span style="color: #cccccc;">re: .WEB:</span> <i>"... </i></b><i>the Board hereby: (a) determines that <span style="color: #cccccc;">NDC did not violate the Guidebook or the Auction Rules, either through entering into the DAA or through its participation in the .WEB auction</span>; (b) directs the Interim President and CEO, or her designee(s), to continue processing NDC's .WEB application; and (c) in light of the above, concludes that is <span style="color: #cccccc;">not necessary to make a final determination at this time as to whether Altanovo violated the "Blackout Period" of the .WEB auction</span> ... the Board hereby notes the questions raised regarding certain conduct by both NDC and Altanovo and directs the Interim President and CEO, or her designee(s), to carefully consider the issues raised by the parties and the Panel in the .WEB IRP with regard to agreements similar to the DAA and communications prior to an ICANN auction when developing the Guidebook and auction rules for the next round of the New gTLD Program in order to provide greater clarity to applicants regarding the transparency and notification requirements throughout the application and auction processes ... Resolved (2023.04.30.14), <span style="color: #cccccc;">specific items within this resolution shall remain confidential</span> pursuant to Article 3, section 3.5(b) of the ICANN Bylaws ..."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">2021 Dec 21: </span></b><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-panel-decision-claimant-article-33-application-21dec21-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Panel Decision</a><span><span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span></span></span>(pdf) on <span><span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Afilias's Rule 33 application: </b></span></span></span>"Denies in its entirety Afilias Domains No. 3 Limited’s Rule 33 Application for an Additional Decision and for Interpretation, dated 21 June 2021" (p.54 of 57), and apportions fees and expenses accordingly. <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">See also</span></u> <a href="https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/irp-panel-sanctions-afilias-clears-the-way-for-icann-to-decide-web-disputes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Verisign blog</a> Dec 28, 2021: "Afilias/AltaNovo ... litigation counsel has already written ICANN threatening to continue litigation <i>'in all available fora whether within or outside of the United States of America'</i>.…”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-claimants-rule-33-application-additional-decision-interpretation-21jun21-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AFILIAS DOMAINS NO. 3 LIMITED’S RULE 33 APPLICATION FOR AN</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-claimants-rule-33-application-additional-decision-interpretation-21jun21-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ADDITIONAL DECISION AND FOR INTERPRETATION</a> (pdf) dated 21 June 2021. Excerpt:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWWd1QTU8yo2ii5s-Efu8paJ47cjBgI2HKqxcxZbXAqILMOtT1aKnSpN4scb5sF7KGAlBvg3uYsB6oVgWifw3clADfG-akhcYM2UftJtR4ByuxRaVG_fWLc9-FJxoy7c169cmp4oIJPEg/s620/Afilias+v+ICANN.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWWd1QTU8yo2ii5s-Efu8paJ47cjBgI2HKqxcxZbXAqILMOtT1aKnSpN4scb5sF7KGAlBvg3uYsB6oVgWifw3clADfG-akhcYM2UftJtR4ByuxRaVG_fWLc9-FJxoy7c169cmp4oIJPEg/s16000/Afilias+v+ICANN.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See more in the <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">case file</a>, including <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-claimants-rule-33-legal-authorities-ca148-ca164-21jun21-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">legal authorities</a> submitted.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span><span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;">Jul 22: </span><span style="color: #01ffff;"><b>.WEB </b>UPDATE</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></span><span><span><span style="color: #cccccc;">via<b> </b></span></span></span><b><a href="https://investor.verisign.com/node/22156/html#i7eef97c285404082afeca042cac9e194_79" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Verisign Form 10-Q</a> </b>filed with the SEC July 22, 2021<span><span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">:</span></b></span></span></div>"On June 19, 2021, Afilias filed an application to the <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IRP panel</a> requesting that it interpret certain terms of, and make certain amendments to, the final decision. Verisign believes Afilias’ application is an unmeritorious request for reconsideration, which is not permitted under the applicable rules. Verisign expects the IRP panel to rule on Afilias’ application in Q4 2021. Verisign anticipates that once the IRP panel has ruled on Afilias’ application, ICANN’s Board will proceed consistent with the IRP panel’s recommendation to consider the objections and make a decision on the delegation of .web." <u>See also</u> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/marenberg-to-botterman-23jul21-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nu Dotco counsel's letter</a> (pdf) dated July 23, 2021.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Jul 16: </b></span></span><a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210716-what-icann-should-do-now-to-help-future-applicants-of-new-gtlds/#13055" target="_blank">The Best Thing that ICANN Should Do NOW <b>re: more new gTLDs</b></a>, would be to ... <span style="color: #cccccc;">consider ALL the damage done to the global DNS by the ill-conceived 2012 round of new gTLDs,</span> including, but not limited to, the <a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210326-universal-acceptance-making-the-internet-work-for-everyone/#12987" target="_blank">usability issues</a>, <a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210320-is-icann-running-a-racket/#12984" target="_blank">fraud and scams</a>, as well as all the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/ssac-comments-sac114-11feb21-en.pdf" target="_blank">issues raised by SSAC</a> ...." [more <a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20210716-what-icann-should-do-now-to-help-future-applicants-of-new-gtlds#comments" target="_blank">here</a>].</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>May 24 Verisign comments on </b></span></span><b><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.WEB IRP </a></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>ruling </b></span></span>(<a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000114036121018454/nt10024912x2_424b5.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via SEC filing</a>) highlighting added:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V77IWwPn2-2Ia2QAKQffRYbF1OR9CW9XZUdwpoBa0A-aTu_aa1jLY190uEiakso9BxhTPpaab3w1OJpcwPXix2-_U1X_sxoDNCAM91GoZ5x0etmQMfkV9LjK3GQrQGFHEMbLqz96T_A/s640/Verisign_WEB_ruling_SEC.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5V77IWwPn2-2Ia2QAKQffRYbF1OR9CW9XZUdwpoBa0A-aTu_aa1jLY190uEiakso9BxhTPpaab3w1OJpcwPXix2-_U1X_sxoDNCAM91GoZ5x0etmQMfkV9LjK3GQrQGFHEMbLqz96T_A/s16000/Verisign_WEB_ruling_SEC.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">"... the ruling finds that </span><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">certain actions</span></b><span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> and/or </span><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">inaction</span></b> </span><span style="color: #ffa400;">by<b> ICANN</b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> in response to Afilias' objections </span><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">violated aspects of ICANN's bylaws related to transparency and fairness </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">...</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">" </span></i>(emphasis added). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><blockquote><a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210526-irp-panel-dismisses-afilias-claims-to-reverse-dot-web-tld-auction/#13039" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Editor's comment</a>: "... <span style="color: #cccccc;">this ruling should be very troubling for the global internet community</span>, as the panel found (at ¶8.)<b><span style="color: #ffa400;"> ICANN "violated" its own Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws</span></b>, the panel further ruling at ¶363 <i>“The Panel has already determined that the <span style="color: #cccccc;">Claimant [Afilias] is entitled to be designated as the prevailing party</span> in relation to the liability portion of its core claims.”</i> ... while NDC & Verisign may be the ultimate victors,<span style="color: #ffa400;"> <b>ICANN</b> comes off looking as <b>incompetent, corrupt, </b>and<b> captured</b>, as ever</span>.</blockquote></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">2021 </span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Editor's comments</b></span> re: <a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210326-universal-acceptance-making-the-internet-work-for-everyone/#12987" target="_blank"><b>usability issues </b>in <b>new gTLDs' domain names</b></a> <u>and</u></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">Incompetent, Corrupt & Captured: </span><a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210413-insult-and-injury-of-us-governments-failure-to-enforce-icann/#13011" target="_blank">ICANN multistakeholderism is the biggest SCAM</a></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">ever perpetrated on the global internet community;</span> <u>and</u> </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210413-insult-and-injury-of-us-governments-failure-to-enforce-icann/#13004" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN & US Gov</a>: the <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-claimants-post-hearing-brief-12oct20-en.pdf" target="_blank">AFILIAS DOMAINS NO. 3 LIMITED’S POST-HEARING BRIEF</a> (redacted pdf) in the <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" target="_blank">.WEB IRP</a> is certainly interesting reading (all 132 pages) as much of the alleged malfeasance occurred <u>prior</u> to the <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/press-release/2016/statement-assistant-secretary-strickling-iana-functions-contract" target="_blank">IANA transition</a> (Oct 1, 2016) <u>and</u></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210317-ending-us-government-amnesia-about-its-legacy-internet-registries/#12980" target="_blank">the<b> Public Interest vs. ICANN</b></a> <u>and</u> </li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210320-is-icann-running-a-racket/#12984" target="_blank"><b>ICANN's Racketeering</b></a> <u>and</u></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="https://domaininvesting.com/clorox-goes-after-375-domain-names-in-udrp/#comment-90611" target="_blank">new gTLDs & trademark infringement</a></b> <u>and</u></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>re:<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> .COM & </span></b><a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210218-busting-domain-name-secondary-market-myths/#12975" target="_blank"><b>startups</b></a><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span></b><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210210-now-we-know-why-its-hard-to-get-a-com/#12952" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Domainers vs Astroturfing?</b></a> <u>and</u> <a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20210218-busting-domain-name-secondary-market-myths/#12968" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Who's an Investor?</b></a> <u>and</u></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210122-the-netizens-guide-to-reboot-the-root-part-i/#12943" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.COM, Trump, Verisign & ICANN</a></b> <i><span style="color: #cccccc;">"Pigs get Fat, Hogs get Slaughtered"</span></i> <u>and</u></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>ICANN, WHOIS, GDPR & .COM </b></span><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210108-dot-com-is-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-online-safety/#12931" target="_blank">here</a> & <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210108-dot-com-is-a-clear-and-present-danger-to-online-safety/#12936" target="_blank">here</a>, <u>and</u> <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210114-more-warning-shots-for-icann-or-the-end-of-the-road/#12932" target="_blank">here</a> & <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210114-more-warning-shots-for-icann-or-the-end-of-the-road/#12940" target="_blank">here</a>.</li></ul><span style="color: #ffa400;">Beyond Incompetence, Corruption, and Capture:</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>WHY does ICANN make so many BAD Decisions? </b>Some of the reasons are </span><b><a href="https://fs.blog/2021/03/avoid-bad-decisions/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">18 Dec 2020 </span></b>(ICANN published 23 Dec): <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/viola-et-al-to-marby-18dec20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>European Commission</b> 2-page pushback</a> (pdf) to <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/marby-to-viola-et-al-02oct20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN CEO's 7-page letter</a> seeking "clarity" re: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">GDPR, </span></b>excerpt: <i>"It is interesting that you put back some of these questions to the GAC and to the
Commission. We think <span style="color: #cccccc;">these questions are primarily a matter of ICANN policy and
should be addressed within the EPDP according to the established procedures. <u>Moreover</u>,
questions concerning the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
should be primarily addressed to <b>your legal advisors </b>and, where necessary with a view to
ensuring legal certainty, the competent <b>EU data protection authorities (DPAs) </b>.... As a final note, we would like to state our concern with the length of the <b>WHOIS policy development</b> and implementation process ..." </span></i>[emphasis added]. See <b>Editor's <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20201009-the-whois-wars-go-on/#12892" target="_blank">ICANN is the PROBLEM, NOT GDPR</a></b></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #cccccc;">18 Dec 2020: </span><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20201218-ntia-objects-to-planned-ocom-auction/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NTIA Objects to Planned o.com Auction</a></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">25 Nov 2020:</span> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LYMxRCPJGLHAl6ChZAzRDn3LANZniEK1/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Final Comment</a></b> (pdf) to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">IGF2020</span></b>.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20201110-icann-doubles-down-on-technical-internet-governance-label/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN<span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span>Org</a></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b>has a<b> </b></span><b><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bg6clvGg7fG0zvm7sO6M6R-XbV76d1uu/view?usp=sharing" rel="" target="_blank">fundamentally flawed</a></b><span><b style="color: #cccccc;"> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span><b> <span style="color: #ffa400;">corrupt understanding</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">of a </span><b style="color: #cccccc;">core concept</b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> in </span><b style="color: #cccccc;">Technical Internet Governance (TIG) -- </b></span><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1591" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>RFC 1591</b></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> -- </b></span><span><b><span style="color: #04ff00;">2020 Nov 11</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b></span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bg6clvGg7fG0zvm7sO6M6R-XbV76d1uu/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>ICANN </b>finally<b> provides a responsive answer </b>and<b> Editor's reply</b></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> (pdf). <b>Previously </b></span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-weight: bold;">ICANN engaged in bad faith </span><span style="color: #ffa400;">and</span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #ffa400;">was</span><b style="color: #ffa400;"> unable </b><span style="color: #ffa400;">or</span><b style="color: #ffa400;"> unwilling</b><span style="color: #ffa400;"> to </span><b style="color: #ffa400;">answer</b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">the<b> Question</b> at</span> <b><a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2020-of-44-icann-open-forum-technical-internet-governance" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IGF2020</a></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">:</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">"<b>Are gTLDs global public resources</b> (</span><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1591" target="_blank">RFC 1591</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) <b>or the property of each respective gTLD registry operator with whom ICANN has a registry agreement?</b>" (read more <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19_YFoAR9HRi_p4o_R6sDv_rzIJSFlYLb/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>). On November 10, 2020, ICANN gave an </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B6OVrQNGu4zSXdVCbueZ2ct_Hn15T3vQ/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">evasive, non-responsive answer</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> (pdf).</span></li></ul><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecd065" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></span><blockquote><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781405186407.wbiecd065" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Note</a>: </span>The domain name system (DNS) was developed mainly by Paul Mockapetris and Jon Postel in the early 1980s. The main specifications are laid down in RFCs, or requests for comment, managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">These are the accepted technical standards for the Internet</span></b>; key ones are RFC 1034, RFC 1035, and RFC 1591 of March 1994, which defined the DNS structure and delegation. </blockquote><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>30 Oct 2020: </b></span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13cU9ws9PnwSW_HgiE9JjPzM8syslNDUA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><b>Editor's Letter to IGF2020</b></a> (pdf) excerpt: <i>".... Because ICANN is too institutionally corrupt to be reformed, ICANN will need to be replaced by the global internet community through a process outside of ICANN's control.</i><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> IGF</span></b><i> could be the place where such a process might begin in the global public interest." </i>[<a href="https://www.intgovforum.org/vIGF/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IGF2020 virtual meeting Nov 2-6 & 9-17</a>]</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>October 10, 2020: </b></span></span><b><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20201009-the-whois-wars-go-on/#12892" target="_blank">ICANN is the PROBLEM, NOT GDPR</a></b> excerpt: "... ICANN is a "failed organization" and needs to be replaced ... Personally, I am not unhappy with the EPDP #FAIL, as the more ICANN fails, the sooner EVERYONE realizes that <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">'ICANN is the PROBLEM, <u>NOT</u> GDPR'</span></b>" (read full comment at link above). See also <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200925-the-pay-to-play-reality-of-icanns-inclusion-illusion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Pay-To-Play Reality of ICANN's Inclusion Illusion</a>.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">August 11, 2020:</span> <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/perspectives-on-cyber-governance/#12822" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN gTLD registry operators are extracting monopoly rentals from registrants</a>. </b></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">October 2, 2020:</span></b> <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20201001-innovation-launches-and-email-new-gtlds-deliver-in-q3-2020#comments" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">ICANN new gTLDs are built on a scam and fraud</a>.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">August 27, 2020:</span></b> comment at <a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/08/18/icann-whois-and-global-data-governance/#comment-42616" rel="" target="_blank">ICANN, Whois and Global Data Governance</a>: "ICANN has already FAILED the global internet community, including domain name registrants, in so many ways, why continue to persist in ignoring the obvious? ICANN policy making is “dysfunctional by design” and its “consensus decision making” often exhibits groupthink at its worst. As you have noted, ICANN structures are rigged in favor of lobbyists and lawyers representing a few special interests and ICANN’s own “contracted parties,” NOT the “global public interest” nor even the “public interest” as defined by the European Union or any other duly elected governmental authority, including the State of California! Most domain name registrants have NO representation within the “ICANN community” and that is “intentional.” ICANN exists primarily (1) to perpetuate itself — the obscenely overpaid, and oftentimes incompetent, ICANN management, and staff, the inept ICANN Board of Directors, and the “few” who dominate and control the “ICANN community” — and (2) to perpetuate U.S. hegemony over global internet governance including the global DNS. ICANN is a “failed organization.” It needs to be replaced. If people such as yourself persist in pretending otherwise, by default others will decide."</li>
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<li>June 12, 2020: <a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2020/06/12/icann-general-meeting-will-unsurprisingly-be-virtual/#comment-2261383" rel="" target="_blank">ICANN Meetings & ICANN Incompetence, Corruption and Capture</a>, excerpt: <i><b><span style="color: orange;">ICANN</span></b> </i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>is "the </i></span><span style="color: orange;"><i>antithesis</i></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i> of a multistakeholder organization operating in the global public interest."</i></span> </li>
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<li>June 12, 2020: <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200612-thumb-on-the-scales/#12770" target="_blank">Auctions & Next Round of New gTLDs</a>, excerpt: <i>"read and follow that <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/icann_081218.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2008 advice</a> [pp 4-11] from the <span style="color: #cccccc;">US DoJ Antitrust Division</span>, and abolish all private and public auctions as conducted in the last round of expansion of gTLDs."</i></li>
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<li>May 29, 2020: <a href="https://morganlinton.com/did-zoom-catalyze-renewed-interest-in-us-domains/" target="_blank">What ZOOM.US may portend about ccTLDs vs. ICANN gTLDs including .COM</a>: <i>"My standing advice to any startup with serious intentions, is to register your company name (“brand name”) as an exact match .COM domain name and exact match ccTLD of the nation where you are incorporated and headquartered, i.e., for U.S. startups that means .US, for UK startups that means .UK, etc. <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN is so incompetent, corrupt and captured, and its expansion of gTLDs such a fiasco (on so many levels), ICANN will likely be replaced at some point, perhaps sooner than we think</span>, and with its demise we may see the end of most, if not all, gTLDs, supplanted by an international treaty governing the internet and ccTLDs, each ccTLD under the jurisdiction of each respective nation, subject to the terms of the international treaty. Zoom may be ahead of its time!" </i><span style="color: #cccccc;">[<u>Editor's note</u>: zoom.com redirects to zoom.us]</span></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200622-marking-30th-anniversary-of-the-internet-and-cybersecurity-treaty/#comments" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The history of an international internet and cybersecurity treaty</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, "subsequently undermined by subsequent US administrations starting with the Clinton-Gore Administration. The result is now evident in an increasingly </span><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2020/06/12/icann-general-meeting-will-unsurprisingly-be-virtual/#comment-2261383" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">incompetent, corrupt, and captured</a> <b><span style="color: orange;">ICANN</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">, its </span><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2014/09/icann-insiders-on-new-gtlds-mistakes.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>fiasco</b></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> of more than 1,000 </span><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200612-thumb-on-the-scales/#12770" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new gTLDs</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> delegated into the root zone </span><i><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140207_more_problems_crop_up_universal_acceptance_of_top_level_domains/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'failing to work as expected on the internet'</a> </i><span style="color: #cccccc;">(a problem which ICANN knew of </span><a href="http://forum.icann.org/mtg-cmts/stld-rfp-comments/general/doc00004.doc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">since 2003</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">) and which constitute an open invitation to cybercriminals worldwide. Obviously, the American answer, ICANN, needs to be replaced by the global internet community, and supplanted with a new international treaty."</span></li>
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Here is the 8-1 opinion from Justice Ginsburg in United States Patent and Trademark Office v. <a href="https://t.co/Z27bx9mUZ8">https://t.co/Z27bx9mUZ8</a> B.V. <a href="https://t.co/14287KqK4z">https://t.co/14287KqK4z</a></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Both<span style="color: orange; font-weight: bold;"> </span><b>.ORG </b>&<b> .COM</b></span></span> were, and still are, <span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DrivingTheDay/status/1220835934645649410" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">existential issues</a><span style="color: orange;"> </span></span>for<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: orange;"> <b>ICANN</b> </span></span>and its future role in internet governance, if any<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: orange;">:</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ba94c2bc-6e27-11ea-9bca-bf503995cd6f?shareType=nongift" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inside China’s controversial mission to reinvent the internet | ft.com</a>: <i>"... Governments everywhere seem to agree that <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>today’s model of internet governance </b>— essentially, lawless self-regulation by private, mostly American companies —<b> is broken</b></span>. New IP is the latest in a series of efforts to change the way the internet is run, spearheaded by governments that were largely left out when it was founded half a century ago. 'The conflicts surrounding internet governance are the new spaces where political and economic power are unfolding in the 21st century,' wrote the academic Laura DeNardis in her 2014 book The Global War for Internet Governance ..." </i>See also <a href="http://prod-upp-image-read.ft.com/e8dd8c46-70e6-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Huawei Whitepaper</a> (pdf).</blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">.ORG Update 2020 April 30: </span></span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2020-04-30-en#1.a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN Rejects PIR's Change of Control Request</a> thanks to an intervention by the California Attorney General in accordance with California statutory and common law. See also ICANN Board Chair <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blog post</a>, the <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200427-reflections-on-the-dot-org-domain-registry-sale/#12732" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">historical background</a> to the<span style="color: orange;"> .ORG horror show</span>, and the <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/weinstein-to-nevett-01may20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">May 1, 2020, "Dear Jon" letter</a> sent by ICANN after rejecting the Ethos Capital "deal" re: .ORG.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">15 April 2020: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/becerra-to-botterman-marby-15apr20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">California Attorney General tells <b>ICANN</b> to reject</a> (pdf) the <span style="color: orange;">Internet Society</span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">'</span></b>s proposed transfer of <span style="color: orange;">PIR</span> and the <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>.ORG registry</b></span> to private equity firm <b><span style="color: orange;">Ethos Capital</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span></b>excerpts from the AG Becerra's letter, singles out the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Internet Society </span></b>for acting "contrary to its mission"--</div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>.COM </b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Update Mar 27, 2020: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-decides-on-com-amendment-and-proposed-binding-letter-of-intent-between-icann-and-verisign" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN Approves .COM Registry Agreement Amendment and Proposed Binding Letter of Intent between ICANN and Verisign</a>:<i> "... ICANN org is <u>not</u> a competition authority or price regulator. We have long-deferred to the U.S. Government Department of Commerce (DOC) and Department of Justice for the regulation of pricing for .COM registry services, as per the Cooperative Agreement between Verisign and the DOC ..."--</i>ICANN President & CEO Goran Marby. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">See </span></b><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/muscovitch-to-botterman-icann-board-02apr20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">response letter to ICANN Board, Apr 2, 2020</a> from Zak Muscovitch, ICA General Counsel, <u>and</u> <i>"By becoming a spineless organization, ICANN is on a path to be made irrelevant"</i> -- <a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2020/04/09/what-will-goran-marbys-legacy-at-icann-be/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What will Göran Marby's legacy at ICANN be? | DomainNameWire.com</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Source: <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1014473/000101447320000006/chart-a4740c2557e65884aac.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VeriSign, Inc. 10K</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Does this look like a corporation that <u>needs</u> annual increases in .COM registration and renewal fees</span> allowed by the U.S. government (Dept. of Commerce-NTIA) and the industry-captured monopoly 'internet coordinator' ICANN, a California nonprofit 'Public Benefit Corporation'? Verisign derives most of its income as sole monopoly Trustee and operator of the .COM registry</span>. See also: <a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2020/02/18/when-did-icann-stop-being-a-price-regulator/#comment-2259574" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What <b>ICANN</b> should do if it does <b>not</b> want to be a "price regulator"</a> <u>and</u> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's comment</u></span>: </div>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Verisign</span></b>, the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R7ZI7cYK2M6VX5OQ7Hm4IVZydrXft8wi/view" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.COM monopoly</a> <span style="color: #cccccc;">registry operator</span>, having <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/regulatory-capture.asp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">captured</a> the Trump administration's US Department of Commerce (<a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/amendment_35.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NTIA</a>), as well as the inept California non-profit "internet coordinator" known as <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/com-2012-12-01-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN</a>, is now able to increase its fees for more than <a href="https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/zone-file/index.xhtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">145 million+ captive .COM registrants</a> by 7% per annum compounded, for the next 4 years, and for the last 4 of every 6 years' period thereafter, into perpetuity -- <span style="color: orange;">Next stop: <b>antitrust actions</b> by state AGs, DOJ, FTC, EU, China, India, or private parties?</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>.WEB</b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-panel-decision-phase-1-redacted-12feb20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Afilias IRP Feb 12</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">: </span>NU DOTCO, LLC and VeriSign, Inc. (the Amici) are allowed to participate as amici in the IRP. More info <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Mar 18: </span>PIR Agrees to ICANN Extension — <a href="https://www.keypointsabout.org/blog/pir-agrees-to-icann-extension" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KeyPointsAbout.org</a>: "we have agreed to an <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN [.ORG] deadline extension to <b>April 20th</b></span>."</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Mar 12: </span><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200311-the-sad-story-of-private-public-interest-commitments-pics/#12699" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.ORG & Private PICs</a> (as proposed by Ethos Capital & PIR)--ill-conceived private PICs were first allowed by ICANN Org in connection with its 2012 expansion of <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20200216_icann_do_not_allow_closed_new_gtlds_with_generic_strings/#12660" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new gTLDs, <i>"a fiasco on so many levels"</i></a>--</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Feb 26 </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-namecheap-v-icann-2020-03-03-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Namecheap v. ICANN IRP re: .ORG, .INFO. .BIZ</b></a><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Feb 21 </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey-to-nevett-21feb20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN-PIR Letter agreement extending <b>deadline</b></a>, to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">March 20, 2020</span></b> for <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN to provide or withhold consent</span> to PIR's proposed change of control. <span style="color: #cccccc;">See also Feb 24 </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/camarillo-to-botterman-24feb20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">letter from Internet Society to ICANN</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Feb 19</span> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey-to-nevett-19feb20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN Letter to PIR</a> (additional questions & requests for information).<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Feb 14: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey-to-nevett-14feb20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN-PIR Letter agreement</a> re: 29 February 2020 deadline for ICANN to provide or withhold consent to PIR’s proposed change of control.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Feb 13: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/botterman-to-camarillo-13feb20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN Sends Questions to Internet Society</a> and <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/levee-to-boglivi-13feb20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Letter from ICANN Counsel to PIR Counsel</a> re: scope of ICANN's review.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Feb 4: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/ec/correspondence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN denies ASO inspection request re: .ORG</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Pigs Get FAT, Hogs Get SLAUGHTERED - <a href="https://twitter.com/ICANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICANN</a> & its "gTLD Registry Operators" Were UNACCOUNTABLE Until <a href="https://twitter.com/AGBecerra?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AGBecerra</a> - Breach of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FiduciaryDuty?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FiduciaryDuty</a> owed to Registrants has only gotten WORSE since the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IANAtransition?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IANAtransition</a> <a href="https://t.co/UM6QPfq74i">https://t.co/UM6QPfq74i</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NetGov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NetGov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Domains?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Domains</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DomainNames?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DomainNames</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveDotOrg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SaveDotOrg</a> <a href="https://t.co/MktHUDV1I3">pic.twitter.com/MktHUDV1I3</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">2020 Jan 30: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-01-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN announces</a> </span>it received an investigation <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/ca-ago-to-icann-board-23jan20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">letter from the California Attorney General </a><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/ca-ago-to-icann-board-23jan20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(CA-AGO)</a> [pdf] dated Jan 23, 2020, regarding<span style="color: orange;"> .ORG Change of Control</span> and further, <span style="color: orange;">PIR</span> has been requested to extend to April 20, 2020, the deadline for ICANN to approve "the change of control" (see <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/jeffrey-to-nevett-30jan20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN letter to PIR</a> (pdf) Jan 30, 2020). The CA-AGO's "investigation" letter to ICANN contains 35 questions for <span style="color: orange;">ICANN to answer</span>, and also states that "additional documents and information may be requested." UPDATE <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/rabkin-to-barrientos-31jan20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jan 31 ICANN response</a> (pdf).<br />
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Read also: <a href="https://nyti.ms/2RsPYti" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Shaky Future of .org Domains | The New York Times</a>: "<a href="https://mashable.com/article/dot-org-private-equity-sale-icann-update/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in a statement</a> to The Financial Times, ICANN said it “does <u>not</u> have authority over the proposed acquisition,” a claim that is patently false."<br />
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Jan 24, 2020: <a href="https://savedotorg.org/index.php/savedotorg-protest-at-icann/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SaveDotOrg Protest</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/amyrsward/status/1220805575274926080" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN </a><a href="https://twitter.com/amyrsward/status/1220805575274926080" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">headquarters</a>: <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/2So6LxgYvYFXnp2e9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">12025 Waterfront Dr., Los Angeles</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">21 Jan 2020: </span><a href="https://www.axios.com/org-registry-ownership-battle-d73a356f-4b94-4cb3-8769-9cbbc3526440.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The billion-dollar battle over .org registry ownership intensifies </a><span style="color: #cccccc;">and </span><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/21/org_sale_fiasco/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The .ORG Sale Fiasco</a>: <i>"the organizations [ICANN and Internet Society] charged with protecting the internet from malign influence have completely lost their way."</i>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">17 January 2020: </span>The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Public Interest Registry (PIR) <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/icann-to-pir-17jan20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">agree</a> (pdf) to a 30-day extension of ICANN's time to review PIR's submissions, to 17 February 2020. Also, <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2020-01-17-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN will be requesting further information from PIR</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Read also</span> <a href="https://www.nasconet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/NASCO-ltr-011720.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASCO Letter re: .ORG 17 Jan 2020</a> (pdf), excerpt: ".... We are concerned about the implications of the conversion of PIR to a for-profit LLC ("PIR LLC") controlled by <span style="color: orange;">Ethos Capital</span> and <span style="color: orange;">undisclosed minority investors</span>. <span style="color: #cccccc;">As a charitable nonprofit, PIR has been a regulated entity subject to federal and state oversight</span> of its <span style="color: #cccccc;">charitable assets, governance and tax-exempt status.</span> This conversion would remove these important layers of transparency and accountability. Further, in maintaining the '.org' registry, PIR has historically been obligated to act in furtherance of its charitable mission (i.e., <span style="color: #cccccc;">serving the public interest</span> online through operating and managing the '.org' domain) ... For-profit control over the '.org' registry would shift PIR's objective from offering a public benefit to one focused on deriving the greatest amount of profit from its subscribers. PIR would have an interest, indeed an obligation, to maximize profits for its members. We have significant concerns about how domain price increases and availability may affect charitable organizations that rely on their domain and inhibit access to new entrants .... we respectfully urge you to consider these concerns and allow appropriate time for regulatory authorities to review the <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>impact</u></span> of this proposed transaction." [emphasis added]</div>
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and <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/icann-needs-ask-more-questions-about-sale-org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG | Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> 17 Jan 2020.</div>
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"How do you [<span style="color: orange;">Ethos Capital</span><i><span style="color: orange;"> </span>et al</i>] reconcile your proposal for 10% per annum compounded price increases — <span style="color: orange;">doubling the price of .ORG domain names every seven (7.2) years</span> — with the following:</blockquote>
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"The policy for the operation of the .org registry required <i>inter alia</i> that (i) the registry be “operated for the benefit of the worldwide community of organizations, groups, and individuals engaged in noncommercial communication via the Internet”, (ii) responsibility for the .org administration be “delegated to a non-profit organization that has widespread support from and acts on behalf of that community”, and (iii) <span style="color: orange;">registry fee charged to accredited registrars be “as low as feasible consistent with the maintenance of good quality service”</span>. The DNSO’s policy on the reassignment and administration of the .ORG registry has never been amended nor revoked." — <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-20-1-namecheap-request-redacted-08jan20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Namecheap reconsideration p. 9</a> citing <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN, Report of the Dot Org Task Force Adopted by the DNSO Names Council 17 January 2002 and accepted as guidance by the ICANN Board on 14 March 2002</span>."</blockquote>
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<i>"Glad to co-chair with <span style="color: #cccccc;">Jack Ma</span> <span style="color: orange;">#WuzhenSummit</span> multistakeholder advisory committee"--</i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fadi Chehade</span></span>, ICANN President & CEO, Dec 18, 2015, at <span style="color: orange;">China</span>'s<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Internet_Conference" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Internet Conference</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span>a/k/a <span style="color: #cccccc;">Wuzhen Summit</span>, <i>"<a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2015/12/29/the-chinese-netmundial-initiative/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a vehicle for the Chinese [Communist] Party-state’s policy agenda</a>."</i></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">How </span><span style="color: orange;">China</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Will Take Over the Internet with help from </span><span style="color: orange;">ICANN</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> UPDATE: </span></span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T86yB60YTi4orklsDxQSb8dbujtuha2y1r2frCeSQKE/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In re: .ORG</a> (pdf), excerpt:</div>
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".... Under the facts presented, <span style="color: #cccccc;">Ethos Capital, </span>the<span style="color: #cccccc;"> Internet Society, </span>and<span style="color: #cccccc;"> PIRegistry</span>, are, in effect, asking <span style="color: orange;">ICANN</span> to approve a "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=novation+definition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">novation</a>" ... If approved, not only will <span style="color: #cccccc;">unlimited .ORG price increases</span> occur, but eventually, every valuable gTLD will be owned by a state-owned, funded or controlled enterprise of China -- <span style="color: orange;">China will just "buy" .COM, .NET, .ORG, .WEB, <i>etc.,</i> and thereby control the internet </span>-- no private equity firm, and few publicly owned companies (certainly NOT <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ%3A+VRSN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Verisign</a>), can match the financial resources of Chinese SOEs." </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2020/01/08/new-org-stewards-or-vultures-circling/#comment-42571" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comment published:</a><br />
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Yes, let's be clear, when did ICANN overturn RFC 1591? When did the U.S. & <a href="https://twitter.com/ICANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICANN</a> its contractor at that time, grant "ownership rights" in TLD .ORG to the <a href="https://twitter.com/internetsociety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@internetsociety</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/PIRegistry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PIRegistry</a> ? More Questions <a href="https://t.co/a2FtJkGEXl">https://t.co/a2FtJkGEXl</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/domains?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#domains</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DomainName?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DomainName</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NetGov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NetGov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SaveDotOrg?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SaveDotOrg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://t.co/i7zQT9gVfR">https://t.co/i7zQT9gVfR</a></div>
— DrivingTheDay (@DrivingTheDay) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrivingTheDay/status/1215356084426301441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;">2020 Jan 3: </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2020-01-03-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN Reveals</a><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span>what a<span style="color: #eeeeee;"> <a href="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/com/com-proposed-loi-03jan20-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sweetener</a> </span>(pdf)<span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span>of <span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="color: lime;">$20 million</span> </span><span style="color: orange;">buys</span>. </span></span><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2020/01/02/top-stories-domain-name-price-controls/#comment-2258626" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Comment and Question</a> for <span style="color: orange;">ICANN</span> and the <span style="color: #cccccc;">global internet community</span>, excerpt:</li>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">"... W</span></i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>hen did ICANN overturn </i></span><i><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1591" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RFC 1591</a></i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i> <u>and</u> the continuous position of the United States, </i></span><i><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/icann_081218.pdf" rel="" target="_blank">historical steward</a></i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><i> of the DNS from the time of its creation, that TLDs are global public resources, <u>NOT</u> the property of ICANN (successor to IANA) <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/litigation-haim-et-al-us-brief-amicus-curiae-29dec15-en.pdf" target="_blank">nor ANY registry operator</a> .... W</i></span><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">hile it may be the </span><span style="color: orange;">intent</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> of </span><span style="color: orange;">corrupt or inept ICANN leadership</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">, past or present, to </span><span style="color: orange;">facilitate</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> the largest theft of global public resources in history, please cite where and when the ‘shift in positioning’ was formally approved as formal ICANN policy to negate RFC 1591 both as to new gTLDs and legacy gTLDs, and who at ICANN claims to have sanctioned it on behalf of the global internet community as being in the “global public interest.”</span></i></blockquote>
<i>"The <span style="color: orange;">slow rot </span>in those organizations – <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN</span> and <span style="color: #cccccc;">ISOC</span> [<span style="color: #cccccc;">Internet Society</span>] key among them – have been apparent for years but its clearest indication is in the fact that they have all but abandoned a commitment to transparency."-</i>-<a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/09/org_preservation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kieren McCarthy | theregister.co.uk</a>.<br />
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<li><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Further below:</span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y06gexDhcmGpHtw6-Nj3cYJI5JUrCFKy/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Editor's Letter</a><span style="color: orange;"> to ICANN <i>et al</i></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> re: .ORG & Ethos Capital</span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">;</span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">Sordid Backstory</span> of<span style="color: #cccccc;"> ICANN, Ethos Capital, and .ORG; Namecheap & EFF Rebuttals,<i> </i><i>and more. </i>See also</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/savedotorg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#SaveDotOrg</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> and Editor's comment </span><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191216_how_to_preserve_dot_org_registrys_integrity_in_isoc_sale_of_pir/#12587" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">. <u>Also note</u>: </span>On 27 December 2019, the Number Resource Organization (NRO), acting as the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), submitted <a href="https://www.nro.net/aso-issues-inspection-request-to-icann/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">correspondence to ICANN</a> regarding the <span style="color: #cccccc;">Internet Society’s proposed transfer of ownership of PIR, the .org registry, to Ethos Capital: </span><i>"... The NRO has reviewed recent events surrounding the proposal by ISOC to transfer the ownership of PIR, the .org Registry, to Ethos Capital. While we do not normally engage in policy matters related to the DNS, we consider <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN’s handling of this proposal</span> to be an important Internet governance decision, with <span style="color: orange;">bearing on the community’s trust in ICANN, and the legitimacy of the ICANN model</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span>... the ASO seeks to inspect any ICANN records which pertain to or provide relevant insight to the process by which ICANN will consider (and potentially approve) the assignment of the .org Registry Agreement, including the process by which input from the affected community will be obtained prior to ICANN’s consideration and potential approval of the assignment.”</i></li>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">28 Dec 2019: Just when you think it <u>can't</u> get any worse, </span><span style="color: orange;">ICANN</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">yet <u>again</u> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-fegistry-et-al-v-icann-hotel-2019-12-20-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shows itself</a> <span style="color: orange;">"too corrupt or inept"</span>-- <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-fegistry-et-al-request-16dec19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">read the particulars</a> (pdf), excerpt:</blockquote>
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Dec 28, 2019: <span style="color: lime;">New Year's Wish</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">: </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Please, Someone, Anyone, </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">perhaps the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_California" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">California State Attorney General</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span><span style="color: orange;">End ICANN's Existence</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">#2 </span><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/07/tech-review-1-why-jony-ive-chose-to.html" target="_blank">Tech Review 1) Why Jony Ive Chose To Leave Apple, 2) Big Tech & Profits</a><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">#3</span> <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/07/android-or-ios-why-smartphones-arent.html" target="_blank">Android or iOS, Why Smartphones Aren't Exciting Anymore (video)</a></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">Dec 9, 2019 </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/blog/org-update" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN blog post re: .ORG, Internet Society, Ethos Capital, PIR. </a><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Nov 24, 2019</span> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y06gexDhcmGpHtw6-Nj3cYJI5JUrCFKy/view?usp=sharing" rel="" target="_blank">Editor's letter to ICANN Board <i>et al</i></a><i> </i>(pdf) re:<span style="color: #cccccc;"> .ORG</span> and the <span style="color: #cccccc;">sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR) to Ethos Capital</span>. See also <span style="color: #cccccc;">my comment </span><a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191216_how_to_preserve_dot_org_registrys_integrity_in_isoc_sale_of_pir/#12587" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>:<i> "... it is now clear the parties involved, including Ethos Capital, ISOC, and ICANN, have a complete misunderstanding of the legal principles involved, and the Internet Society is attempting to "sell" something it doesn't own, i.e., the TLD .ORG. Caveat Emptor!"</i><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Domain Mondo:</span> <span style="color: orange;">Sordid Backstory</span> <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2018/10/news-review-fadi-akram-donuts-icann.html" rel="" target="_blank">of ICANN, Ethos Capital, and .ORG</a>. <span style="color: #cccccc;">See also</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/savedotorg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#SaveDotOrg</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: orange;">Nov 27, 2019: </span><a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/11/28/town-hall-meeting-on-org-at-igf-2019/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Town Hall Meeting on .ORG at IGF 2019</a>: "... ICANN board members <span style="color: #cccccc;">Becky Burr </span>and <span style="color: #cccccc;">Chris Disspain</span> ... explained the process they go through when ownership of a registry changes. They <u>acknowledged</u> that <a href="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/org/org-agmt-html-30jun19-en.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">section 7.5 of the ORG Registry Agreement</a> gives them a role in the transfer of control and that the <span style="color: #cccccc;">process</span> associated with that<span style="color: #cccccc;"> is already happening</span>. They can ask questions of ISOC trustees and PIR about the sale and exchange information. There is <u>no fixed 30-day limit</u> on these exchanges, rather a <u>rolling 30 day limit</u> on each round of questions and responses. Board members <u>acknowledged</u> ICANN’s ability to attach conditions to the recognition of Ethos Capital as the new operator of .ORG. Board member <span style="color: #cccccc;">Leon Sanchez</span> was also in attendance ..."</div>
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<span style="color: orange;">Nov</span><span style="color: orange;"> 18, 2019 </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-19-2-namecheap-requestor-rebuttal-board-proposed-determination-18nov19-en.pdf" rel="" target="_blank">Namecheap Rebuttal to ICANN Board</a> (pdf) re: <span style="color: #cccccc;">.ORG and .INFO price caps. <u>Excerpt</u>: </span><i>" ... ICANN’s </i><i>reliance upon Professor Carlton’s 2009 analysis is misguided because it is an opinion <u>not</u> based upon evidence or facts, but relies upon outdated and incomplete assumptions. Second, ICANN claims that the Base RA was developed through the ICANN policy process, however there is <u>no evidence</u> to suggest that those participants intended or considered the Base RA to apply to legacy TLDs ..." </i>More <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/reconsideration-19-2-namecheap-request-2019-07-22-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: orange;">Nov 19, 2019 </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-19-3-electronic-frontier-requestor-rebuttal-board-proposed-determination-19nov19-en.pdf" rel="" target="_blank">EFF Rebuttal to ICANN Board</a> (pdf) excerpt: <i>"... <span style="color: #cccccc;">sale of PIR to a private equity firm</span> ... heightens the <u>need</u> for you to spend more time and discussion on the <span style="color: #cccccc;">.ORG contract renewal </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">challenges</span> ..." </i>More <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/reconsideration-19-3-electronic-frontier-request-2019-08-01-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Nov 15, 2019 </span><a href="https://www.internetcommerce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ICA-Letter-to-ICANN-Board-of-Directors-November-15-2019.pdf" rel="" target="_blank">ICA Letter to ICANN re: Ethos Capital & .ORG</a> (pdf).<br />
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<span style="color: orange;">Nov 13, 2019</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">:</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/13/breaking-private-equity-company-acquires-org-registry/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .ORG registry</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/13/the-interesting-connection-between-the-org-deal-and-icann/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The interesting connection between the .ORG deal and ICANN</a> -- "<span style="color: #cccccc;">Former ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé </span>appears to have a connection to the latest big deal in the domain name industry." -- <a href="https://onlinedomain.com/2019/11/14/domain-name-news/screwed-org-gets-sold-to-a-private-equity-firm-called-ethos-capital/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">And they named their company Ethos. Give me a break!</a> </blockquote>
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<i><a href="https://twitter.com/nielstenoever/status/1194904665529470976" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"... moral bankruptcy ... Especially in combination with the recent removal of price caps for .org domains."</a></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: orange;">Nov 10, 2019</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">:</span> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YJOSNsXmkdtcsQ1dmiJ2Tb2Y1A1ax6oV/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN66 Wrap</a> (pdf): "... <span style="color: #cccccc;">UAM:</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">Domain Name Registrants</span> Look Forward to <span style="color: #cccccc;">Suing ICANN</span> under <span style="color: #cccccc;">GDPR ... Every Antitrust & Competition Authority in the World Should Be Investigating <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN</a> & its gTLDs ..." [</span>more <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YJOSNsXmkdtcsQ1dmiJ2Tb2Y1A1ax6oV/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">].</span><br />
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Best Question at .US Townhall Oct 24: "So I have to go to an ICANN meeting in a foreign country to participate in a .US stakeholder group? Count Me OUT! ICANN is CORRUPT, CAPTURED, INCOMPETENT ..." <a href="https://t.co/UM6QPfq74i">https://t.co/UM6QPfq74i</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Domains?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Domains</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternetSociety?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#InternetSociety</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISOC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ISOC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NetGov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NetGov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN66?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN66</a> <a href="https://t.co/MEmL8iWaI6">pic.twitter.com/MEmL8iWaI6</a></div>
— DrivingTheDay (@DrivingTheDay) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrivingTheDay/status/1188568335258193927?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Internet Society </span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2019/10/28/pir-org-slashes-registry-fee-to-afilias-in-half-to-18-million/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">received $48.7 million in 2018</a>, </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">via its affiliate PIR, .ORG </span><a href="https://thenew.org/org-people/about-pir/resources/990-annual-report/" target="_blank">Registry Operator</a> (pdf)<span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><span style="color: orange;">Oct 9, 2019</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">, email from a reader: </span><i>"John, I've been following your comments on the CCT review team – and I’m shocked more people are not paying attention. Your words are spot on and its extremely troubling. I also spent hours and hours going through DomainMondo.com – wow!! You are right on so many different areas. Are you planning on making a comment <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/cct-rt-implementation-plan-2019-09-11-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> as well? As a follow up?"</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Editor's response: </span><br />
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<i>Thank you for your email and kind comments. As you may know, I have already commented at various times during the CCT process, see <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-cct-final-recs-08oct18/attachments/20181126/44e6686c/CommentSubmitted26Nov2018-merged-0001.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a> (pdf). Accordingly, I see no point in commenting further on either the ICANN Board's decision, or ICANN org's "path" concerning the Board's decision re: the CCT recommendations. </i></blockquote>
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<i>I have <strike>pretty much</strike> 'given up' on ICANN and its "commenting process" which appears to be as much a public charade as ICANN's claims concerning "competition, consumer trust, and consumer choice." <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2017/04/news-review-caveat-emptor-icann-new.html" target="_blank">ICANN has failed the global internet community</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> and does <u>not</u> operate in the global public interest.</span> Because of the<span style="color: #cccccc;"> IANA transition</span>, we, the global internet community, have <u>no</u> effective remedy, at present, to reform or replace ICANN, or its misguided policies and practices.<br /> <br />However, I encourage you, and others so inclined [notwithstanding the above], to submit your own comments to ICANN on this and any other matter. If DomainMondo.com aids in providing reference sources which you find helpful, so much the better.</i></blockquote>
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Attn: Startups & VCs - Caveat Emptor gTLD Domain Names (except .COM) <a href="https://t.co/gyC0MMV3Ul">https://t.co/gyC0MMV3Ul</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/business?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#business</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/venturecapital?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#venturecapital</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/investors?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#investors</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/domain?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#domain</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/domainname?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#domainname</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TLD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TLD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gTLDs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#gTLDs</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/startup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#startup</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/startups?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#startups</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/invest?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#invest</a> <a href="https://t.co/FQbm5oDZYW">https://t.co/FQbm5oDZYW</a></div>
— Red Sky Fund (@RedSkyFund) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedSkyFund/status/1180984988998815744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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References:<br />
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<li><span style="color: #cccccc;">Domain Mondo Archive below</span> (on mobile go to "web version");</li>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/baker-to-dengate-thrush-18dec08-en.pdf" target="_blank">US DOJ Antitrust Letter via NTIA, 18 Dec 2008</a> (pdf); <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/icann_081218.pdf" target="_blank">NTIA</a> (same letter);</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/ntiahome/domainname/jpacomments2007/jpacomment_004.pdf" target="_blank">ICANN Letter re: NTIA Review 9 Jan 2008</a> (pdf);</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/category/domain-name-system" target="_blank">https://www.ntia.doc.gov/category/domain-name-system</a></li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/ntiahome/domainname/" target="_blank">https://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/ntiahome/domainname/</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/verisign-cooperative-agreement" target="_blank">Verisign Cooperative Agreement</a>; <span style="color: #cccccc;">.COM Amendments</span> <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/amendment_32_11292012.pdf" target="_blank">32</a> (pdf), <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/amendment_34.pdf" target="_blank">34</a> (pdf), <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/amendment_35.pdf" target="_blank">35</a> (pdf).</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/com-2012-12-01-en" target="_blank">ICANN & Verisign .COM Registry Agreement</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/poolelettertoredlntia20180717.pdf" rel="" target="_blank">Editor's Comment to NTIA</a> 17 July 2018 (pdf); </li>
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<li><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2016/11/news-review-icann-used-junk-science.html" target="_blank">ICANN & Its 'Junk Science' New gTLDs</a> -- ICANN decided to <u>not</u> follow advice from the <span style="color: #cccccc;">US Department of Justice Antitrust Division</span> (via <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/icann_081218.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NTIA</a> pp 4-11), and instead, hired 'junk science' experts;</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2017/04/news-review-caveat-emptor-icann-new.html" target="_blank">Caveat Emptor: ICANN & New gTLD Domain Names</a> <span style="color: #cccccc;">(how ICANN came to "screw up its new gTLDs program so badly")</span>;</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/search/#!/?searchText=John%20Poole" target="_blank">Editor's ICANN Engagement</a>;</li>
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Selected <a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/archive" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">comments</a> to ICANN from the Editor:</div>
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<li>Registry renewals of <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-org-renewal-18mar19/attachments/20190429/6667cb43/CommentreORGgTLDregistryrenewalfromJohnPoole_DomainMondo_29Apr2019-merged.pdf" target="_blank">.ORG</a> (pdf), <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-info-renewal-18mar19/attachments/20190429/52844c2b/CommentreINFOgTLDregistryrenewalfromJohnPoole_DomainMondo_29Apr2019.pdf" target="_blank">.INFO</a> (pdf), <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-biz-renewal-03apr19/attachments/20190506/171b5176/CommentreBIZgTLDregistryrenewalfromJohnPoole_DomainMondo-0001.pdf" target="_blank">.BIZ</a> (pdf), <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-asia-renewal-27mar19/attachments/20190506/316b1932/CommentreASIAgTLDregistryrenewalfromJohnPoole_DomainMondo-0001.pdf" target="_blank">.ASIA</a> (pdf);</li>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Also note</u>:</span> <i>"... there are some very <u>disturbing</u> things about the <span style="color: #cccccc;">new .ORG Registry Agreement contract</span>. The problems relate to the role of community policy development vs. bilateral contract in the governance of the domain name system. It appears that <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN’s</span> <u>contracting process</u> provides ICANN and its contracting parties a way to completely bypass ICANN’s policy development process. As such, it <u>undermines</u> the whole purpose of having ICANN in the first place .... </i><i><span style="color: #cccccc;">It gives the lie to ICANN’s continued claim</span> that it fosters <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">bottom up multistakeholder consensus policies</span></u>. It provides for an end run around fundamental bylaw constraints, such as the one prohibiting ICANN from regulating content. This is a troublesome loophole in ICANN’s contractual model of governance, and board members and GNSO representatives need to do something about it. </i><i>As for the community, <span style="color: #cccccc;">we need to put Verisign on notice</span>. We will <u>not</u> allow the same thing to happen to the<span style="color: #cccccc;"> .COM contract </span>... a coalition with antitrust agencies concerned about market power and monopoly pricing and civil society free speech advocates would be powerful, and litigation inevitable if they try the same trick again."</i>--<span style="color: #cccccc;">Dr. Milton Mueller, </span><a href="https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/07/04/the-real-problem-with-the-new-org-contract/" rel="" target="_blank">The real problem with the new .ORG contract | internetgovernance.org</a> (emphasis added);</blockquote>
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<u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <a href="https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2019/06/24/the-case-for-regulatory-capture-at-icann/" rel="" target="_blank">The Case for Regulatory Capture at ICANN | ReviewSignal.com</a>;</blockquote>
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<u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <a href="https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2019/07/01/icann-fails-the-internet-community-allows-an-unlimited-non-profit-tax/" rel="" target="_blank">ICANN Fails the Internet Community, allows an unlimited non profit tax | ReviewSignal.com</a>;</blockquote>
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<u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-19-2-namecheap-request-redacted-12jul19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Namecheap, Inc. 12 Jul 2019 Reconsideration Request</a> (pdf) <span style="color: #cccccc;">re: ICANN’s decision to renew the registry agreement for .ORG and .INFO without the historic price caps. </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Follow the proceeding</span> <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/reconsideration-19-2-namecheap-request-2019-07-22-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>;</blockquote>
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Read also <a href="https://mashable.com/article/domain-name-price-caps-icann/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How the battle over domain prices could drastically change the web | mashable.com</a>: "... [<span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN</span>] just opened the door to monopolies charging whatever they want for registering a web address. Ironically, the<span style="color: #cccccc;"> U.S. government</span> formed ICANN in 1998 to prevent a monopoly ..."</blockquote>
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<u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-19-3-electronic-frontier-request-redacted-30jul19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) 30 July 2019 Reconsideration Request</a> (pdf) <span style="color: #cccccc;">re: .ORG registry agreement renewal, including incorporation of the URS</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> and </span>"explicit permission from ICANN for PIR to<span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><i>'at its election, implement additional protections of the legal rights of third parties' </i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">unilaterally </span></span>and without further consultation with existing .org registrants or the ICANN community." <span style="color: #cccccc;">Follow the proceeding</span> <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/reconsideration-19-3-electronic-frontier-request-2019-08-01-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, including <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-19-3-electronic-frontier-gagliano-to-icann-bamc-02oct19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this letter from EFF</a> (pdf), excerpt:</blockquote>
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<i>"... The <span style="color: #cccccc;">Ombudsman’s Evaluation</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>misstates</u></span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">EFF’s positions</span> and reflects a fundamental <span style="color: #cccccc;">misunderstanding </span>of the issues. The Committee should <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">disregard</span></u> the Ombudsman’s Evaluation and recommend to the Board that EFF’s Request for Reconsideration be granted ..." </i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Read also</u>:</span> <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/opening-door-censorship-new-trademark-enforcement-mechanisms-added-top-level" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Opening the Door for Censorship: New Trademark Enforcement Mechanisms Added for Top-Level Domains | eff.org</a>.</blockquote>
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<u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <i> "... <span style="color: #cccccc;">it is troubling</span> to see<span style="color: #cccccc;"> ICANN</span> dismissing comments because they were collected via an organized campaign, since it <span style="color: #cccccc;">essentially <u>closes off</u> the comment space to anyone other than ICANN insiders</span>. This <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">defeats</span></u> the <span style="color: #cccccc;">purpose</span> of having <span style="color: #cccccc;">public comments</span> ... If ICANN does <u>not</u> take this duty seriously, <span style="color: #cccccc;">people will naturally start to question why it should be entrusted with this role</span>.</i>"--<a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190914_what_is_the_purpose_of_icanns_comment_periods/" target="_blank">Michael Karanicolas</a>, Wikimedia Fellow at Yale Law School, Sep 14, 2019 (emphasis added).</blockquote>
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<u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <a href="https://www.internetcommerce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Letter-to-ICANN-Ombudsman-September-12-2019.pdf" target="_blank">letter to ICANN Ombudsman</a> (pdf) from Internet Commerce Association, Sep 12, 2019. [<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>: even the </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN Ombudsman</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">is incompetent, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/DrivingTheDay/status/1173677839176085504" target="_blank">an Inept Apologist for a 'Corrupt' & 'Captured' ICANN</a>.]</blockquote>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-epdp-recs-04mar19/attachments/20190417/f24a380d/CommentofJohnPoole_registrant_editor-DomainMondo-0001.pdf" rel="" target="_blank">EPDP Phase 1 Final Report</a> (pdf);</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-new-gtld-auction-proceeds-initial-08oct18/2018q4/000032.html" target="_blank">New gTLDs' Auction Proceeds</a>;</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-cct-final-recs-08oct18/attachments/20181126/44e6686c/CommentSubmitted26Nov2018-merged-0001.pdf" target="_blank">CCT Review</a> (pdf);</li>
</ul>
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<li><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-jurisdiction-recs-14nov17/attachments/20180114/40759363/CommentsfromJohnPoolereICANNJurisdictionsubgrouprecommendations-0001.pdf" target="_blank">ICANN Jurisdiction</a> (pdf);</li>
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<li><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/comments-net-renewal-20apr17/attachments/20170530/ba6a720a/CommentreNET.pdf" target="_blank">Registry renewal of .NET</a> (pdf);</li>
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<li><a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-rpm-prelim-issue-09oct15/pdfqEgguwtnam.pdf" target="_blank">UDRP</a> (pdf).</li>
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News Review 1) Cyber Sovereignty Rising, 2) ICANN Fatally Flawed <a href="https://t.co/HwNGGgMMYw">https://t.co/HwNGGgMMYw</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/domains?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#domains</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DomainNames?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DomainNames</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trademarks?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#trademarks</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NetGov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NetGov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IGF2019?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IGF2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DataPrivacy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DataPrivacy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GDPR?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GDPR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antitrust?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antitrust</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://t.co/CzjQH7YkPk">pic.twitter.com/CzjQH7YkPk</a></div>
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) <a href="https://twitter.com/DomainMondo/status/1140022130727370752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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"ICANN fatally flawed"<br />
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NR: 1) ICANN65 Recap - EPDP, GAC, AMAZON, ICANN Org & Next Round gTLDs, 2) Regulatory Capture at ICANN? <a href="https://t.co/gQrQOIt86N">https://t.co/gQrQOIt86N</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24AMZN&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$AMZN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Amazon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brazil?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brazil</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brasil?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brasil</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/domain?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#domain</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Domains?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Domains</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/trademark?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#trademark</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NetGov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NetGov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IGF2019?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IGF2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GDPR?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GDPR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://t.co/41b4WozrG5">pic.twitter.com/41b4WozrG5</a></div>
— DrivingTheDay (@DrivingTheDay) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrivingTheDay/status/1145460193918181377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Trademarks (.BRAND) gTLDs</span> were a <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/05/news-review-law-firm-conflicts-of.html" rel="" target="_blank">MISTAKE</a> (read <span style="color: orange;">2)b. </span>at that link),<br />
an <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RsVtwC2kkxFMOPP4tUzcd1RG24K-9YSr/view" target="_blank">extortion racket</a>, see <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09-14-16%20Grove%20Testimony.pdf" target="_blank">.PING testimony</a>. Follow <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/news-review-icann-gnso-epdp-phase-2.html" target="_blank">.AMAZON</a> reconsideration <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/reconsideration-19-1-colombian-bamc-recommendation-14aug19-en.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2019-09-08-en#2.b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. <span style="color: #cccccc;">Update:</span> <i>"We consider this [<span style="color: orange;">new gTLD .AMAZON</span>] decision illegal and unjust expropriation of our culture, tradition, history and image before the world."</i>--<span style="color: #cccccc;">ACTO letter</span> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/moreira-to-marby-14jan20-en.pdf">moreira-to-marby-14jan20-en.pdf</a><br />
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2)a. .WEB IRP & <a href="https://twitter.com/ICANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICANN</a> corrupt new gTLDs - IT PAYS TO LOSE - ICANN Expert Witness says one bidder "received over $50 million from losing private auctions" <a href="https://t.co/uf68qJ0dCK">https://t.co/uf68qJ0dCK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/domains?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#domains</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DomainNames?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DomainNames</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NetGov?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NetGov</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IGF2019?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IGF2019</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://t.co/Cul4yecBHl">pic.twitter.com/Cul4yecBHl</a></div>
— DrivingTheDay (@DrivingTheDay) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrivingTheDay/status/1141118078446657536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Ill-Conceived & Corrupt New gTLDs: Win $50 Million By Losing New gTLD Auctions<br />
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Tech Review 1) Why Jony Ive Chose To Leave Apple, 2) Big Tech & Profits <a href="https://t.co/3fzUd0kph8">https://t.co/3fzUd0kph8</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StockMarket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StockMarket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JonyIve?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JonyIve</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LoveFrom?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LoveFrom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/design?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#design</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24AAPL&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$AAPL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Apple?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Apple</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BigTech?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/technology?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#technology</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/investing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#investing</a> <a href="https://t.co/JwiebxyK5B">pic.twitter.com/JwiebxyK5B</a></div>
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<i>"To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again and I think with great intent, you disconnect from the past."</i>--Jony Ive<br />
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<i>Tech Review (TR 2019-07-06)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news: </i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Features • </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1)</span></b> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Why Jony Ive Chose To Leave Apple,</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 2)</span> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Big Tech: Do Profits Really Matter?</span></b> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3)</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">Investing: </span><span style="color: lime;">The Week</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> & <u>Investor Notes</u>: </span><span style="color: orange;">China & Huawei</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">,<b> Eurozone Japanification,</b></span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> US Pension Crisis & Federal Debt,</span></b> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4)</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICYMI Tech News: </span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">WTF Apple? Amazon, Broadcom, Antitrust, Google,</span> </b><i style="color: #cccccc;">and more.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">UPDATE<b> Deutsche Bank </b></span>(<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3A+DB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYSE: DB</a>) <a href="https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2019/deutsche-bank-outlines-significant-strategic-transformation-and-restructuring-plans-en-11537.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>bites the bullet</b></a>, <a href="https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2019/deutsche-bank-announces-radical-transformation-en-11538.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">radical transformation</a>, <a href="https://www.db.com/newsroom_news/2019/deutsche-bank-announces-new-leadership-team-en-11539.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new leadership</a>, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/07/deutsche-bank-will-exit-its-global-equities-business-and-scale-back-investment-bank.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>cuts 18,000 jobs</b></a>.<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1)</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">Why Jony Ive Chose To Leave Apple</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jony Ive</span></b> will leave <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Apple</span></b> later this year to start a new venture of his own, called <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">LoveFrom</span></b>, with Apple as his first client. No one will be taking Jony Ive's title, Chief Design Officer, a position at the center of 20 years of product development at Apple, when he leaves, says the FT.com's technology correspondent Tim Bradshaw, who talks about his exclusive interview with Jony Ive in the video above published June 28, 2019.<br />
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<i>"To create something that's genuinely new, you have to start again and I think with great intent, you disconnect from the past."</i>--Jony Ive</blockquote>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>: Why did Jony Ive choose to leave Apple? He simply wanted to do something new.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>See also</u>:</span> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tim-cook-disputes-absurd-reports-about-jony-ive-s-departure-n1025461" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Chief Executive <b>Tim Cook</b></a> on Monday fiercely disputed a <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/01/jony-ive-dispirited-before-leaving-apple/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WSJ report</a> about the departure of <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jony Ive</span></b> and the company's ability to uphold its commitment to innovative design.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Note also</u> re: fracking technology: </span>“I'm not aware of another case of a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">disruptive technological change</span></b> that has done so much harm to the industry that created the change ... While hundreds of billions of dollars of benefits have accrued to hundreds of millions of people, the amount of <u>shareholder value destruction</u> registers in the hundreds of billions of dollars ... The industry is self-destructive.”--<a href="https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Shale-Pioneer-Fracking-is-an-Unmitigated-Disaster.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Schlotterbeck</a>, former chief executive of EQT, a shale gas giant, at a petrochemicals conference in Pittsburgh. <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>:</span> and this doesn't even begin to address <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=fracking%27s+health+and+environmental+issues" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fracking's health and environmental issues</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3)</span> </b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Investing</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">The Week</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>:</b> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ+Composite" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ Composite</a><b><span style="color: lime;"> +1.9%</span></b> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sp500" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">S&P 500 Index</a> <b><span style="color: lime;">+1.7%</span></b> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Dow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DJIA</a> <b><span style="color: lime;">+1.2%</span></b><br />
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<i>Stocks finished slightly lower on Friday, backing away from all-time highs hit earlier this week, after a<span style="color: #cccccc;"> better-than-expected employment report</span> in June <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-finish-slightly-lower-after-strong-jobs-report-pull-back-from-records-2019-07-05?mod=newsviewer_click" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">partially rolled back investors' expectations for multiple rate cuts this year</a>.</i></blockquote>
<i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">I Just Hope the Fed Doesn’t See This Jobs Report</span></b>--</i><a href="https://wolfstreet.com/2019/07/05/i-just-hope-the-fed-doesnt-see-this-jobs-report/">wolfstreet.com</a>. U.S. nonfarm payrolls rose 224,000 in June, well above market expectations of 165,000, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">according to the Labor Department</a>. The unemployment rate edged higher to 3.7% (300,000 people entered the labor force looking for work and therefore counted as unemployed), but was still near 50-year lows. Wage growth was 3.1% year over year.<br />
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<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-02/goldman-only-reason-why-there-bull-market-almost-everything" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goldman Sachs' explanation</a> on why there is <u>now</u> a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">"bull market in almost everything"</span></b>--<span style="color: #cccccc;"><i>"monetary policy" remains the main driver of risk appetite and expectations are now very bullish.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Global hedge fund liquidations</span></b></span> exceeded launches for the third consecutive quarter as managers faced a tough capital-raising environment. About 213 funds closed in the first three months of this year, compared with 136 that opened--<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/hedge-funds-ranks-shrink-again-as-closings-outnumber-launches?srnd=premium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a></span><b>. </b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>:<b> why pay the high fees?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China: </span></b>"The <b><span style="color: orange;">Huawei</span></b> battle reflects a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">fundamental geostrategic shift in Washington</span></b>. For decades, the U.S. foreign policy establishment <u>assumed</u> Beijing would evolve into a cooperative partner in the rules-based, American-led international order that did so much to foster China's boom. That hope has evaporated. Now, the United States sees China as an adversary determined to challenge American leadership in <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">technology</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">innovation</span></b>. President Donald Trump has launched a<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> trade war</span></b> against Beijing and is boosting defense spending. Huawei is cast as a Chinese standard-bearer in that struggle."--<a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/huawei-poland-spying/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Special Report | reuters.com</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">See also:</span></b><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.phonearena.com/news/U.S.-companies-still-not-allowed-to-sell-supplies-to-Huawei_id117259" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">US Commerce Department staff told</a> to treat <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Huawei</span></b> like it is <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">still blacklisted;</span></b></li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>U.S. Hits Back at Huawei Lawsuit</b></span>--<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-hits-back-at-huawei-lawsuit-11562304654" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wsj.com</a> and <a href="https://nyti.ms/30lf8M9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nytimes.com</a>.</li>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">EU:</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>The Eurozone’s Japanification</b></span>--with the eurozone economy stuck in a <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>low growth, low inflation and low rates environment</u></span>, it's really hard not to make <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">'Japanification'</span></b> comparisons. If we're honest, the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">eurozone is probably already</span></b> <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">in<b> </b>the thick of it</span></u>, which means rates are likely to remain lower for longer and every new crisis or recession will bring the bloc closer to more Japanification--<a href="https://think.ing.com/articles/eurozones-japanification-the-long-read/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ing.com</a>. See also <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-01/french-bond-yields-slide-below-zero-hit-all-time-record-lows" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">French Bond Yields Slide Below Zero</a>, Hit All Time Record Lows <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Deutsche Bank</span></b>'s Restructuring Plan To Cost Staggering €5 Billion--<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-03/deutsche-banks-restructuring-plan-cost-staggering-eu5-billion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zerohedge.com</a>; German prosecutors are escalating a money laundering inquiry involving <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Deutsche Bank, </span></b>including planned raids on wealthy former clients, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deutsche-bank-probe/german-prosecutors-intensify-deutsche-bank-client-investigation-source-idUSKCN1TY2CT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reuters.com</a>.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">There is the ongoing economic misery across Europe. Most of the economy remains stalled</span> – and there are signs it could get worse ... I am not anti-European, but I think it’s about to go through a slow implosion. There is an increasing likelihood Europe becomes largely detached and delinked from the US and other Occidental economies, and irrelevant to the growth economies of the Orient. From a trade perspective, I suspect we’d [<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">UK</span></b>] be better off <u>outside</u> [the European Union]</i>--<a href="https://morningporridge.com/the-morning-porridge/f/blains-morning-porridge---july-26th-2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bill Blain</a>.</blockquote>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>See also</u></span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">How Does the European Union Work? </span></b>The EU’s authority has steadily expanded as its members have passed more and more decision-making power to the union--<a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/how-does-european-union-work" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cfr.org</a>. <u>New leaders</u> of the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">EU / ECB </span></b>(nominees still need to be debated and ratified by the European Parliament):<br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ursula von der Leyen</span></b>, 60, Germany: European Commission President;</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Charles Michel</span></b>, 43, Belgium: President of the European Council;</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Josep Borrell</span></b>, 72, Spain: EU High Representative (foreign policy);</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Christine Lagarde</span></b>, 63, France: European Central Bank President.</li>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>U.S.</b> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-weight: bold;">Under the Radar:</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;"> Pension Crisis Deepens</span> in U.S. as strategies shift, outlooks dim--<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/pension-crisis-deepens-as-strategies-shift-outlooks-dim-chart" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a>.<i> "I can only repeat again and again: There is no solution to the woefully underfunded pensions in Chicago and in Illinois that does not involve benefit cuts subsequent to a 2020 constitutional amendment or municipal bankruptcy. And the sooner Pritzker and Lightfoot figure that out, the better off we’ll all be."-</i>-<a href="https://wirepoints.org/with-pension-advice-like-this-chicago-and-illinois-are-doomed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wirepoints.org</a>. <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">Note also</span></u>: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">soaring federal debt</span></b> <i><a href="https://www.cbo.gov/publication/55384" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"poses substantial risks for the nation" </a></i>warns <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Congressional Budget Office</span></b> (<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">CBO</span></b>).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">WTF Apple? </span></b>Apple Moves Mac Pro Production to China--the $6,000 desktop computer had been the company’s only major device assembled in the U.S.--<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-moves-mac-pro-production-to-china-11561728769" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wsj.com</a>. <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">See also</span></u> Electronics exodus from China--<span style="color: #cccccc;">HP and Dell</span> plan to shift up to 30% of notebook production <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">out of China</span></u>; <span style="color: #cccccc;">Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Nintendo </span>also want to move some production--<a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/HP-Dell-and-Microsoft-join-electronics-exodus-from-China" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nikkei.com</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Airbnb</b></span> is among <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">IPOs</span></b> investors are anticipating in the second half of 2019--<a href="https://youtu.be/l8H1fL81TFo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CNBC</a> (video).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Broadcom</span></b> In Advanced Talks to Acquire <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Symantec</span></b>--another <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Broadcom%20Is%20in%20Advanced%20Talks%20to%20Acquire%20Symantec%20By%20Liana%20Baker%20,%20Ed%20Hammond%20,%20Kiel%20Porter%20,%20and%20Ian%20King%20July%202,%202019,%205:34%20PM%20CDT%20Updated%20on%20July%203,%202019,%209:08%20AM%20CDT%20%20CEO%20Tan%20has%20branched%20out%20into%20software%20already%20with%20CA%20deal--https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-02/broadcom-is-said-to-be-in-advanced-talks-to-acquire-symantec" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">software acquisition</a> by CEO Tan?<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Antitrust: </span></b><a href="https://www.rila.org/focus-areas/public-policy/leading-retailers-urge-ftc-to-protect-consumers-co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Retail Industry Leaders Association</a> (<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">RILA</span></b>) representing <span style="color: #cccccc;">Walmart, Target, Best Buy, </span>others <a href="https://rila.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#61000000dOrP/a/4M000000DO0Z/H5c7IH2umW0ayLluMXZ0TsRBosaLIZAV9aTfcf9rs3o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">writes to FTC</a> (pdf) about <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">tech giant dominance</span></b>, offering help with <u>antitrust</u> probes, and calls out <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Amazon </b></span>and <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Google. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Amazon & Product Liability:</b> </span><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/451580-court-rules-amazon-can-be-held-liable-for-third-party-sales" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals</a><span style="color: black;"> </span></span>(2-1) rules customers can sue <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon</span></b></span> when they buy <u>defective</u> products from its platform, even if Amazon did not make those products.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>What's left to monetize?</b></span> It appears the answer is "very little."--<a href="http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2019/07/whats-left-to-monetize.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blogspot.com</a>--<i>"Advertising has always monetized consumers' time and attention, what we call engagement today. Big Tech has generated billions of dollars by monetizing other forms of engagement and privately owned capital/assets. Google has monetized web search ... AirBNB has monetized privately owned or leased homes and flats ..."</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Early front-runners to <u>regulate</u></span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Libra</span></b> are <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">FINMA</span></b> (Switzerland) and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">BOE</span></b> (UK):<i> "The long-run success of Libra critically depends on finding a nation with financial gravitas willing to provide Libra-friendly rules."</i>--<a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4273502-libra-moves-fast-breaks-many-things" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">seekingalpha.com</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Ireland-based</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">cryptocurrency exchange</span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Bitsane</span></b> has apparently <u>vanished</u>, taking as many as 246,000 users’ crypto deposits with it.--<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-29/exit-scam-dublin-based-exchange-bitsane-vanishes-users-funds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zerohedge.com</a>.</div>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grand Union Flag</a> is considered to be the first national flag of the United States. The design consisted of 13 stripes, red and white, representing the original Thirteen Colonies, the canton on the upper left-hand corner bearing the British Union Flag, the red cross of St. George of England with the white cross of St. Andrew of Scotland. The flag was first flown on December 2, 1775, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Paul Jones</a> (then a Continental Navy lieutenant), on the ship Alfred in Philadelphia.<br />
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The Economist's language expert, Lane Greene, knows a thing or two about English. Lane is a fan of words, lots of words, and Lane is an American living in London. He's become accustomed to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">British English slang</span></b>. But Lane often hears Britons complain that there are too many American words and expressions creeping into British English, these are called <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Americanisms</span></b>. The Economist.com video above first published Nov 23, 2017.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">About two billion people study English as a non-native language</span></b> - that's nearly one in three people worldwide. There are <span style="color: #cccccc;">more English speakers</span> (<u><span style="color: #cccccc;">native</span></u> <span style="color: #cccccc;">+</span> <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">non-native</span></u>)<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> worldwide, than of any other language in the world today</span></b>. As a result, <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>unlike</u></span> the other major languages in the world today,<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <u>non-native</u><b> </b></span>speakers of English far outnumber <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">native</span></u> speakers<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">!</span></b><br />
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The country with the largest number of English speakers (native + non-native) is <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">India</span></b>, where English is an additional official language for government work along with Hindi. The total population of India will surpass China <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/india-will-soon-overtake-china-to-become-the-most-populous-country-in-the-world" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">by 2024</a>.<br />
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The <a href="https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/international/english-speaking-countries" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UK government</a> classifies the following countries as <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">majority native English</span></b> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">speaking:</span></b> Antigua and Barbuda; Australia; The Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Canada; Dominica; Grenada; Guyana; Ireland; Jamaica; New Zealand; St Kitts and Nevis; St Lucia; St Vincent and the Grenadines; Trinidad and Tobago; United Kingdom; United States of America.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>The countries that have the best proficiency in English </b><u>as a second language</u><b>:</b></span><br />
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It's always nice when a movie review makes a reference to Shakespeare => ‘The Lion King’ feels way more like ‘Hamlet’ this time — and that’s why it’s so good <a href="https://t.co/UCOZLUb4RB">https://t.co/UCOZLUb4RB</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a></div>
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What is it like to fast for three days without any technology or devices? CNBC.com’s Uptin Saiidi took on the challenge, as he goes on a quest to learn more about <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=tech+addiction" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tech addiction</a> and the billion dollar <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=mindfulness+industry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mindfulness industry</a> hoping to combat it. CNBC International video above published May 15, 2019.<br />
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Smartphone sales are declining, and the pace of innovation is slowing. Manufacturers are scrambling to find new ways to conjure up excitement. Bloomberg QuickTake explains what might be the future of smartphones. Bloomberg.com video above published Jun 19, 2019.<br />
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See also: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">WSJ:</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">Jony Ive</span> Became 'Dispirited' After Apple Watch and Sometimes Failed to Show Up to Meetings--Report: Jony Ive was dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process and frustrated inside a more operations-focused company--<a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2019/07/01/jony-ive-dispirited-before-leaving-apple/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">macrumors.com</a>.<br />
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<i>Domain Mondo's weekly internet domain news review (NR 2019-06-30) with analysis and opinion: </i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Features • </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>1) ICANN65 Recap</b></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>, </b></span><b> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2)</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Regulatory Capture at ICANN </b></span><span style="color: orange;"><b>Update</b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>, </b></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>3) </b>Names, </span><span style="color: orange;">Domains</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> & Trademarks: <b>a. Oracle Dyn, b. GoDaddy, c.Tucows, d.Fraudsters, e. Phishing, f. </b></span><b><span style="color: orange;">FUCT</span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>,</b><i> </i> <b>4)</b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> ICYMI: </span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">a.</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> Google, </b></span><span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">b. </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon, </span></b><span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">c. </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Privacy, </span></b><span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">d. </span></b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ethiopia</span></b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>, </b></span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">e.</span></b> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ransomware, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">f.</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">DNS Attack, </span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>5)</b> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Most Read.</b></span><br />
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<i>”One of the <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">advantages</span></u> of leaving MMX is that <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">I am finally done with ICANN</span></b></i> ... <i><u><span style="color: #cccccc;">one</span></u> of the single <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">worst organizations</span></b> I have come across on <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>this</u> <u>planet</u></span>."</i>--<a href="https://www.thedomains.com/2015/06/03/fred-krueger-why-i-hate-icann/" target="_blank">Fred Krueger</a></blockquote>
<b style="color: #6fa8dc;">1) ICANN65 Recap</b><br />
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This really is a terrible look for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> and should be noted at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a>. Most ashamed should be ALAC. People with clear conflicts should recuse themselves, not author the comments! *sigh* <a href="https://t.co/avBh1HsHbS">https://t.co/avBh1HsHbS</a></div>
— elliot noss (@enoss) <a href="https://twitter.com/enoss/status/1143224401305001984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Read about 2019 Ethos Award Recipient Kurt Pritz in this morning's <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> Newsletter. <a href="https://t.co/M5vuS5OFBQ">https://t.co/M5vuS5OFBQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/O25Eg6Yph3">pic.twitter.com/O25Eg6Yph3</a></div>
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EPDP mind buggling meeting today: some people believe intellectual property protection outweighs domain name registrants right to data protection. Probably outweighs their freedom and fundamental rights. IP über alles. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Next</u> <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/2019+Meetings+-+Phase+2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EPDP Phase 2 Meeting</a></span> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>July 11, 2019</b></span><b>. </b><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-June/002172.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jun 27 meeting notes & action items</a><b>.</b><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> GAC: Venezuela is the last ACTO country to take the floor on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dotAmazon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dotAmazon</a>. Is as unhappy as the previous governments who’ve taken the floor.</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> GAC, Portugal: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a>’s multistakeholder approach to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dotAmazon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dotAmazon</a> has served private interests - not public interests.</div>
— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/sgdickinson/status/1143450775747567616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Read last week's <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/news-review-icann65-june-24-27-epdp.html" target="_blank">News Review</a>, and <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/news-review-icann-gnso-epdp-phase-2.html" target="_blank">News Review 2)a. 2019-06-02</a>, and note the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.AMAZON</span></b> <a href="https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/984">applications</a> are <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">"on hold"</span></b> due to <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/reconsideration-19-1-colombian-request-2019-06-18-en" target="_blank">Colombia's Request for Reconsideration</a> which raises the same point I raised in <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/05/news-review-law-firm-conflicts-of.html" target="_blank">News Review 2)b. 2019-05-26</a>: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">"the .AMAZON applications now violate Specification 13 ..."</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> GAC communique drafting ends a couple of minutes before 8 pm Marrakech time. The communique has no new advice, but 3 pieces of follow-up on previous advice:<br />
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- 2-letter country codes in 2nd level domains<br />
- <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/dotAmazon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#dotAmazon</a> <br />
- EPDP Phase 2</div>
— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/sgdickinson/status/1143956925777731584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
<b><a href="https://gac.icann.org/contentMigrated/icann65-marrakech-communique" target="_blank">GAC Communique</a></b>: "... V. Follow-up on Previous Advice - The following items reflect matters related to previous consensus advice provided to the Board. 1. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.AMAZON applications</span></b>: The GAC asks the Board to explain in writing whether and why it considers that its decision to proceed with the .AMAZON applications, based on a proposal [<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/huseman-to-chalaby-17apr19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">17 April 2019</a>] that the eight Amazon countries considered did <u>not</u> address their concerns, complies with GAC Advice ...." See also <a href="https://livestream.com/icannmeeting/events/8699257/videos/193025999" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Video of GAC - ICANN Board .AMAZON discussion</a> (1:07:50 - 1:55:00) at <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN65</span>.<br />
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First we were told ICANN's TSG was a purely technical exercise. Now, at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> we are told that the <a href="https://twitter.com/ICANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICANN</a> is taking the TSG model and presenting it to DPAs to "test its basic assumptions and feasibility under the GDPR"</div>
— IGP Alert (@IGPAlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/IGPAlert/status/1144184151366656000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<i>"This is a distraction from the EPDP Team’s work. We were informed that the TSG was a purely technical exercise. Now, we are being told this model is being taken to the DPAs. This has confirmed the fears this Team had regarding the TSG. <span style="color: #cccccc;">It is <u>not</u> ICANN org or the TSG’s job to be developing policies - it is the ICANN community’s job.</span>"</i>--<a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-June/002172.html" target="_blank">EPDP feedback to ICANN Org</a><br />
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The Chair of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> Subsequent Procedures didn't really say this, did he? <a href="https://t.co/DyUn0u0oiN">https://t.co/DyUn0u0oiN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN</a> <a href="https://t.co/8iU9SgNTyM">https://t.co/8iU9SgNTyM</a></div>
— Eye On ICANN (@EyeOnICANN) <a href="https://twitter.com/EyeOnICANN/status/1143172560550596608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Another</u> <u>Reason</u> <u>Why</u></span> <a href="https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN's New gTLDs Program</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> is </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ill-Conceived & Corrupt</span></b>.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> GAC, Competition, Consumer Trust, & Consumer Choice Review: domains in 5 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/newgTLDs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#newgTLDs</a> were found to be responsible for 57% of all phishing attacks. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/newgTLDs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#newgTLDs</a> had higher proportion of abuse than legacy TLDs due to bad actors taking advantage of low prices for many new gTLDs.</div>
— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/sgdickinson/status/1144168471967649792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Another</u> <u>Reason</u> <u>Why</u></span> <a href="https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN's New gTLDs Program</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> is </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ill-Conceived & Corrupt</span></b>.<br />
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In discussion with <a href="https://twitter.com/ICANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICANN</a> this morning at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a> ALAC made clear that it would not support moving forward on new gTLDs until CCT and RPM implementation was complete and sought a timeline for completion from GDD</div>
— John Laprise, Ph.D. (@JohnLaprise) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnLaprise/status/1144192823316680704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/reviews/specific-reviews/cct" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>CCT</b></a> <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/active/rpm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>RPM</b></a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">implementation complete?</span></b>--Next Round of new gTLDs in <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">2028?</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ICANNAtLarge</a> is pursuing a collaborative communication strategy with <a href="https://twitter.com/UASGTech?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UASGTech</a> on Universal Acceptance <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICANN65?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ICANN65</a></div>
— John Laprise, Ph.D. (@JohnLaprise) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnLaprise/status/1144229623791804416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Déjà vu: </span><a href="http://www.domainmondo.com/2015/02/icann-52-universal-acceptance-new-gtld.html" target="_blank">ICANN 52, Universal Acceptance, New gTLD Domain Names "break stuff"</a></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>See also</u><b> </b></span> <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/presentations-2012-08-27-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN65 | Marrakesh, Morocco, 24-27 June 2019 <b>Post-Meeting Report</b></a> (when available)<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2) </span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Regulatory Capture at ICANN?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>UPDATE 3 July 2019</b></span>: <a href="https://www.internetcommerce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Letter-to-Cyrus-Namazi-re-.org-Renewal.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Letter from ICA to ICANN re: .ORG Renewed Registry Agreement</a> (pdf), <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/namazi-to-muscovitch-26jul19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN Reply</a> (pdf) 26 July 2019.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>'UPDATE 2 July 2019: </b></span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Mainstream Media 'gets it' re: .ORG - ICANN Captured, Corrupt, Incompetent, Unfit:</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: orange;"><b>ICANN Just Threw Away the Multistakeholder Model</b></span><br />
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Fewer than 0.07 percent of commenters thought it would be a good idea to remove the price cap on .org domains; more than 98 percent opposed the change. But on Sunday, as the old contract was about to expire, ICANN approved a new contract sans price cap. <a href="https://t.co/g25XcclmwP">https://t.co/g25XcclmwP</a></div>
— Ars Technica (@arstechnica) <a href="https://twitter.com/arstechnica/status/1146085232036274177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>UPDATE 1 July 2019: CAPTURE Complete</b></span>--"On 30 June 2019,<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> ICANN</span></b> (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) and Public Interest Registry, entered into a <a href="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/org/org-agmt-pdf-30jun19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">renewal Registry Agreement</a> (pdf) [<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">removing all price caps on .ORG domain names</span></b>] under which<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Public Interest Registry </span></b>operates the .org top-level domain."--<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/org-2019-06-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN.org</a>. See also <a href="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/tlds/org/org-agmt-addendum-pdf-30jun19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Addendum to .ORG Registry Agreement</a> (pdf). Same result for<b> <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/info-2019-06-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.info</a>, <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/biz-2019-06-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.biz</a> </b>and <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/agreement/asia-2019-06-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>.asia</b></a>.<br />
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See also <a href="https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2019/07/01/icann-fails-the-internet-community-allows-an-unlimited-non-profit-tax/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>ICANN Fails the Internet Community, allows an unlimited non profit tax</b> | reviewsignal.com</a>: "... The 96 page contract is identical from when it was proposed to [be] signed. The multi stakeholders and bottom up process that is supposed to govern ICANN policy? <u>Ignored</u><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></b> The public outcry was nearly universally against this change. <u>They weren't listened to at all</u>. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Did ICANN's board vote on the proposed contract after being briefed about the public outcry? </span></b>As of [this] writing, I couldn't find any evidence in ICANN's board activity <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/documents-2014-03-24-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">page</a>. No agenda, no minutes, no resolutions, no briefing material, no preliminary report. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Did ICANN staff simply push through this contract without a board vote?</span></b> ..."<br />
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ICANN allows for unlimited non profit tax by removing price caps on .ORG <a href="https://t.co/Hoe7YAFY0h">https://t.co/Hoe7YAFY0h</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ICANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@icann</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/PIRegistry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PIRegistry</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/EFF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EFF</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NPR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WSJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wsj</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@washingtonpost</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/icann?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#icann</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nonprofittax?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nonprofittax</a></div>
— Review Signal (@ReviewSignal) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReviewSignal/status/1145723188317478913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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they increased them yesterday, quietly on a sunday <a href="https://t.co/B0YyColT6M">https://t.co/B0YyColT6M</a></div>
— Review Signal (@ReviewSignal) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReviewSignal/status/1145701481393340417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Original entry</u>:
</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>The Case for Regulatory Capture at ICANN</b></span>--<a href="https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2019/06/24/the-case-for-regulatory-capture-at-icann/" target="_blank">https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2019/06/24/the-case-for-regulatory-capture-at-icann/</a> by Kevin Ohashi--excerpt (Conclusion) below, with an in-depth examination of the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">conflicts of interest</span></b> and<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> corruption</span></b> rampant within <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN</span></b> and its processes, specifically in reference to the <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/04/news-review-1-org-comments-2-when-to.html" target="_blank">.ORG price cap issue</a>, with numerous individuals and organizations cited, including <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Public Interest Registry</span></b> (<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">PIR</span></b>), <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Internet Society, Verisign, </span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Shane Tews, <b>Steve DelBianco, Jonathan Zuck, Greg Shatan</b>, Judith Hellerstein, Maureen Hilyard, and more.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Conclusion</span></b><br />
"The public interest is at best being represented, in majority, by people tied up in potential conflicts of interest in the given matter. At worst, it looks like special interest groups for <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">VeriSign</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Internet Society </span></b>(ISOC) / <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Public Interest Registry</span></b> have <u>captured</u> multiple groups at <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN</span></b> and are trying to use it to line their organizations' pockets.<br />
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"This appears to be a case study in <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">regulatory capture</span></b>. Beyond public outcry, there appears to be very little stopping ICANN from simply pushing through these contracts despite overwhelming evidence that the average internet user isn't in favor of these changes. There is <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">virtually no meaningful argument in favor of removing price caps</span></b>, unless you accept that it would be administratively easier for an organization with hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank. There is a <u>bizarre free market argument that falls apart</u> when you realize the cost of lock-ins for using a domain name and creating a web presence on any domain. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.ORG is a thirty million dollar subsidy to the Internet Society</span></b> (via PIR) which outsources, via competitive bid, the actual registry services. And they want the ability to charge more, at the expense of every other non profit. Their <u>interests</u> strongly align with <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">VeriSign</span></b>, who most likely see <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.ORG </span></b>as the last hurdle before getting <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.COM</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.NET</span></b> to have price caps removed and increase their bottom line even more in their <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">non competitive monopoly contract.</span></b><br />
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"The only step left before these changes go into effect, that I am aware of, is board approval. I think it probably will go through unless there is a tremendous amount of attention brought to the issue. I'm <u>not</u> only concerned about price caps on .ORG, but structurally the only people who can invest so much time and money participating in ICANN are the <span style="color: #cccccc;">organizations which stand to financially gain the most</span>. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Who is representing the public interest?</span></b> Registry groups appear to have a strong voice within the ICANN community. Finally, I also worry about potential <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">conflicts of interest at the board level</span></b>, which has twenty members. Five ICANN board members were or are connected to ISOC (1,2,3,4,5). One is a former board member of PIR as well. I hope they recognize their responsibility to do what is right for everyone and <u>not</u> the select few registry operators in this instance." (emphasis added)<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>: </span>remember all the <b><u><span style="color: #cccccc;">lies</span></u> </b>touting <b><a href="https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">new gTLDs</a> </b>used by <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">incompetent ICANN</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Org</b></span> <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fadi-chehade-davos_n_6536638" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">management</a> and staff, the <a href="http://nyti.ms/1VTxMXb" target="_blank">unethical</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN Board of Directors,</span></b> and the <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>corrupt</b></span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">"ICANN community" </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=con+artists" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">con artists</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">,</span> including their <span style="color: #cccccc;">preposterous</span> <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2015/07/new-gtld-domains-walking-dead-and-dying.html" target="_blank"><b>growth projections</b></a><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">?</span></b></blockquote>
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<i>"I can't find anything online yet and waiting for the office to open to confirm. Going to be a pain in the ass, we have over 500 domains with them and was trying to add more this morning and rejected ... Oracle Dyn is no longer offering Domain Registration, Standard DNS, and Secondary DNS. Customers with existing service should monitor the email associated with their account for further communication."</i>--source: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/axy95n/oracle_dyn_domain_name_services_potentially/" rel="" target="_blank">Reddit.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">a.</span></b> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Oracle</span></b> laid off sales and marketing staffs at <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Dyn</b> </span>(<span style="color: #cccccc;">n/k/a Oracle Dyn <b>/</b> </span><a href="https://www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accreditation-qualified-list.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Oracle America, Inc.</a>), a formerly independent <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">DNS services provider</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">domain name registrar</span></b> it acquired in 2016 for $600 million. Dyn users are getting "EOL" or end-of-life notices for products, and Oracle Dyn's landlord has put Dyn's offices in Manchester, N.H., up for lease, leading some to speculate <a href="https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/news/252465732/Oracle-layoffs-hit-Dyn-teams-sales-marketing-staffs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">more layoffs are to come</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">b. </span><a href="https://techguylabs.com/episodes/1602" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Should I register a domain with GoDaddy?</a></b>-- Benny from Pasadena. "Benny wants to create a website and wants to know if he should register a domain with GoDaddy. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Leo says NO.</span></b> He <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">hates</span></u> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">GoDaddy</span></b> and their <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">questionable business practices</span></b>. And there are plenty of other domain registrars out there. Leo recommends HOVER [<span style="color: #cccccc;">Tucows</span>]" --<a href="https://techguylabs.com/episodes/1602/should-i-register-domain-godaddy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">techguylabs.com</a> (emphasis added).</div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">c. </span></b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tucows</span></b> [<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ%3A+TCX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ: TCX</a>]<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">: </span></b><a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4272182-tucows-3-terrible-businesses-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>3 Terrible Businesses In 1</b> | SeekingAlpha.com</a>: <i>"<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tucows' Domains business is suffering similar stagnation.</span><span style="color: orange;"> Industry-wide,</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">growth is abysmal</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">.</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>GoDaddy </b></span>(<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3AGDDY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYSE:GDDY</a>) and <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>VeriSign</b></span> (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ%3AVRSN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ:VRSN</a>) have been suffering low single-digit growth, while TCX's own revenue CAGR has been 1% over the last 3 years as it's been losing market share. The business is highly commoditized, with little to differentiate any individual firm other than price. TCX has been <b><span style="color: orange;">boosting prices</span></b> to inflate growth metrics, but this <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">will</span></u> simply<b><span style="color: orange;"> </span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>accelerate</u></span><span style="color: orange;"><b> </b>churn<b> </b></span>and <span style="color: orange;">share loss</span>."</i> (emphasis and links added).<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">d. </span></b><b>Fraudsters</b></span> are taking advantage of the increased number of <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>new top level domains</b></span> to register <u>lookalike domains</u> – for example, the letter "m" can be replaced by the letters "r" and "n" to give the appearance of "m" and it's something which many users won't notice at first glance--<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/cybersecurity-why-one-old-web-scam-is-on-the-rise-again/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zdnet.com</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-weight: 700;">e. </span>"<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Bargain basement gTLDs</b></span> <u style="font-weight: normal;">and</u> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>glyph attacks using IDNs</b></span> are powering <span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal;">phishing attacks</span>, with <u style="font-weight: normal;">fraudulent</u> registrations on the rise. Worse yet, <span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal;">phishing sites</span> are increasingly getting <span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: normal;">security certificates</span>"--<a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-fraudulent-domain-names-are-powering-phishing-attacks/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">techrepublic.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">f.</span></b> <b><span style="color: orange;">FUCT</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">: </span></b>Los Angeles streetwear designer <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+streetwear+designer+Erik+Brunetti" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Erik Brunetti</a>, who had been turned down by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office when he sought to register the <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">brand name</span></u> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">FUCT</span></b> (domain: fuct.com) as a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">trademark</span></b>, won in the U.S. Supreme Court--<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-profanity/supreme-court-allows-foul-language-trademarks-in-f-word-case-idUSKCN1TP1TQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Supreme Court allows foul language trademarks in F-word case</a>. [<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>:</span> <u>not</u> hard to imagine what's coming next, including as <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">trademarks</span> </b>and <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>.BRAND </b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>new gTLDs </b>--<b> ICANN will have completely FUCT UP the internet and global DNS.</b></span></span>]<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-weight: bold;">a.</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;"> Google:</span><b> </b>analysis of 150B+ browser-based <span style="color: #cccccc;">Google searches</span> in Q1 2019 in the U.S. indicated <a href="https://sparktoro.com/blog/how-much-of-googles-search-traffic-is-left-for-anyone-but-themselves/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">only 41.45% resulted in organic clicks to non-Google sites</a>, <span style="color: #cccccc;">48.96%</span> ended <u>without</u> a click.<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <u>Editor's note</u>:</span> confirming the <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Google Search page</b></span> is now one of the world's major content and information <u>destinations</u>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">b. </span></b>What Happens <u>After</u><span style="color: #cccccc;"> <b>Amazon’s Domination</b> Is Complete?</span> <a href="https://nyti.ms/2ZIao2M" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Its Bookstore Offers Clues: The New York Times</a> looks at some egregious cases of <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">counterfeit books</span></b> sold on Amazon.<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-weight: bold;">c.</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;"> Privacy: </span><i>"... <span style="color: #cccccc;">we have lost “ambient privacy,”</span> i.e., daily interactions that should stay unremembered ... Confronted with the reality of a monitored world, people make the rational decision to make the best of it. <span style="color: #cccccc;">That is <u>not</u> consent</span>."--</i><a href="https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">idlewords.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">d. </span></b><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-06-21/ethiopia-restores-the-internet-but-digital-censorship-worries-remain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>How Ethiopia Controls the Internet</b></a>-- A one-week internet shutdown ends, but the government has more methods to silence online critics.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">e.</span> </b><a href="https://www.reuters.tv/p/QNQNdQlz9b4L" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">To pay, or not to pay: U.S. cities wrestle with <b>ransomware</b> | reuters.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">f. </span></b><u><span style="color: #cccccc;">Average Cost</span></u> of a <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Domain Name System (DNS)</b> Attack</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">$1,070,000</span>--<a href="https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/90400-domain-name-system-attack-cost-rises-49-percent-to-1070000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">securitymagazine.com</a>.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tech Review (TR 2019-06-29)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news:</span> </i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Features • </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1)</span></b> <b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Trump Effect: US Imports From Vietnam Surge, While China Declines</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">,</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 2) </span></b><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> Facebook's Libra Could Disrupt the Remittance Industry</span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>, </b></span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3)</span></b> <span style="color: lime;">Investing </span><b><span style="color: lime;">YTD</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b>& Investor Notes: <span style="color: #eeeeee; font-weight: bold;">China, EU, US, & Zombies</span><span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;">,</span></span> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4)</span></b> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">ICYMI Tech News:<b> Apple, Flipkart, iQiyi, Google, Microsoft, Amazon,</b><i> and more.</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1)</span> Trump Effect: US Imports From Vietnam Surge, While China Declines</span></b><br />
<i>And it's <u>not</u> just Vietnam that is a winner from the US-China Trade War:</i><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note and caveat</u>:</span> "<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Exports from China</span></b> are a <u>murky</u> thing. To dodge tariffs, some of it gets transshipped via other countries, such as <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Vietnam</span></b>, before the products are shipped to their destinations, such as the US or the EU ..."--<a href="https://wolfstreet.com/2019/06/21/crude-steel-production-china-v-the-rest-of-the-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wolfstreet.com</a>.<br />
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Nevertheless, in a note this week, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Anne Stevenson-Yang</span></b>, co-founder of<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> J. Capital Research </b></span>(<span style="color: #cccccc;">domain: </span><a href="https://www.jcapitalresearch.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">jcapitalresearch.com</a>), wrote that <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China</span></b> has already entered its “Japanese phase,” marshalling financial resources exclusively to avoid crisis.<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <b>China's economy is overleveraged</b></span>, as demonstrated clearly by the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Baoshang+situation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baoshang situation</a>, and China may now be prey to further problems, perhaps even a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22perfect+storm%22+event" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">perfect storm event</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China</span></b> is again resorting to such tactics as gross <a href="https://wolfstreet.com/2019/06/21/crude-steel-production-china-v-the-rest-of-the-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">overproduction of steel</a> in a desperate attenpt to keep its economy humming, but even that may fail. In order of tonnage of crude steel, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ArcelorMittal</span></b> is first with 96.4 Mt (in 2006, India’s giant Mittal Steel acquired French giant Arcelor; and is now registered in Luxembourg as a mailbox company run from India) and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">the EU has had tariffs on Chinese steel for years.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Also note</u>:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Vietnam economy (GDP April-June quarter) grows nearly 7% </b></span>on <u>trade war tailwinds</u>--Manufacturing exodus from China propels one of fastest boosts in region--<a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Vietnam-economy-grows-nearly-7-on-trade-war-tailwinds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nikkei.com</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-25/india-plans-to-offer-incentives-to-companies-moving-from-china" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">India Plans to Offer Incentives to Companies Moving From China</a>--"aim is to become a production base for firms fleeing tariffs."</li>
<li><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Vietnam's Vingroup </b></span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-vingroup-vsmart/vietnams-vingroup-in-deal-with-fujitsu-unit-qualcomm-to-make-5g-phones-idUSKCN1TT0DE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">in deal with Fujitsu unit, Qualcomm to make 5G phones</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span>to be<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span>manufactured in Hanoi and sold in the U.S. and Europe in 2020.</li>
<li>A Dark Alley in <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China’s Credit Market</span></b> Is Getting Rough--<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-06-25/a-dark-alley-in-china-s-credit-market-is-getting-rough-video" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a> June 24, 2019.</li>
<li>As<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> China's Banking System Freezes</span></b>, SHIBOR Tumbles To Lowest In A Decade--<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-24/chinas-banking-system-freeze-spreads-shibor-tumbles-new-decade-low" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zerohedge.com</a> June 24, 2019.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Trump Pressured by Congress to Stay Tough on Huawei</span></b>--<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-06-25/trump-pressured-by-congress-to-stay-tough-on-huawei-video" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a> June 24, 2019.</li>
<li>The <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">U.S. is now playing down expectations</span></b> for progress from a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Trump-Xi meeting</span></b> during the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">G20 June 28-29</span></b>, with the U.S. holding its hard line demands for meaningful Chinese economic reforms, according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-24/lighthizer-spoke-with-china-s-liu-he-monday-by-phone-ustr-says-jxb06q07" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>.</li>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2) Facebook's Libra Could Disrupt the Remittance Industry</span></b><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/18452/remittance-costs-by-region/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitWE60cLjOreBHWMhIS5HDSVAUK_sURJoLBDzJ78IPhgmJfWxEkE4uSs3tRnxohWAUUPoyhyjQr0kOuHKBJEClMsCtBtWN6ozAdI2hhdCWX-ZCAXHocEsNGmqk1H3Wcu0TiJb4XNGV8kY/s1600/chartoftheday_18452_remittance_costs_by_region_n.png" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/18452/remittance-costs-by-region/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">source: statista.com</a></td></tr>
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Money transfers a/ka "remittances" to low- and middle-income countries reached a record high of $529 billion in 2018, according to the <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2019/04/08/record-high-remittances-sent-globally-in-2018" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Bank</a> and the world's total remittances in 2018 were $689 billion. “<i>Success will mean that a person working abroad has a fast and simple way to send money to family back home,” </i>says <a href="https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#how-to-get-involved" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Libra’s white paper</a>, and the <a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/inequality/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UN Sustainable Development Goals</a> aim to reduce the transaction costs of migrant remittances to less than 3 percent and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 percent by 2030.<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> Libra could lead the way. </b><u>See also</u>: </span><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/how-libra-cryptocurrency-blockchain.html" rel="" target="_blank">How Libra Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Network Will Work (video)</a>.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3)</span> </b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Investing</span></b><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-ends-session-higher-cements-best-june-gain-in-80-years-ahead-of-xi-trump-meeting-2019-06-28?mod=newsviewer_click" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YTD</a></b> (Year-to-date)<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>:</b> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ+Composite" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ Composite</a><b><span style="color: lime;"> +21%</span></b> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sp500" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">S&P 500 Index</a> <b><span style="color: lime;">+17%</span></b> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Dow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DJIA</a> <b><span style="color: lime;">+14%</span></b><br />
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The <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">DJIA</span></b> closed at 26,599 on Friday, up 73 points, its best first half since 1999 and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/28/stocks-finish-best-june-decades-capping-strong-first-half/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.76c4f9788235" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">best June since 1938</a>. It was also the <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-ends-session-higher-cements-best-june-gain-in-80-years-ahead-of-xi-trump-meeting-2019-06-28?mod=newsviewer_click" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">best June for the <b>S&P 500</b> since 1955</a>.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">US:</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">Economy Breaks Record on Trump’s Watch</span>--<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-the-longest-expansion/?srnd=premium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a>: <i>“If voters went to the ballot box today, it would be the strongest economy in U.S. election history,”</i> said Justin Waring, an investment strategist at UBS in New York. Unemployment is close to a half-century low and inflation is so subdued that some have pronounced it dead. </blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Investor Notes:<i> </i></span></b><br />
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Public default at Chinese trust company highlights cracks in market <a href="https://t.co/0jqIRRpbZa">https://t.co/0jqIRRpbZa</a></div>
— ChinaEconomicReview (@chinaeconreview) <a href="https://twitter.com/chinaeconreview/status/1143724881575600130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China:</span></b> signs of a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">slowdown</span></b> in China’s property market continue --office <u>vacancies</u> in<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <b>tech-centric Shenzhen</b></span> <u>rose</u> to more than 23% for the first half of 2019, a decade high, reported <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Caixin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Caixin</a> (domain: caixinglobal.com).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">EU:</span></b> "There is<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> <u>no</u> common Fiscal Policy</span></b>. Thus the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Eurozone stagnates</span></b>, withers and has utterly lost momentum …" <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The next ECB president?</span></b> "Best candidate for the ECB job is going to be a secondary issue to how many other jobs <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">France </span></b>and<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Germany</span></b> get."--<a href="https://morningporridge.com/the-morning-porridge/f/blains-morning-porridge---june-19th-2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bill Blain</a>. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">And Brexit?</span></b><i><a href="https://morningporridge.com/the-morning-porridge/f/blains-morning-porridge---june-21st-2019---midsummer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> UK looks cheap ... but we still face a few more months of fraxious uncertainty.</a></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">US:</span></b><i> "...</i><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> investors</span></b><i>, both foreign and domestic, continue to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">buy Treasuries</span></b>, <u>no matter</u> the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">risks</span></b> associated with them. And the longer they buy Treasuries, the bigger the US debt load becomes, and — ironically — the lower the risk of default."--</i><a href="https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2019/06/17/idiocy-of-the-masses-or-masses-of-idiots/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cfainstitute.org</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Zombies:</span></b> A <a href="https://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1809g.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">report</a> from the <a href="https://www.bis.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bank for International Settlements</a> found 12% of publicly listed companies around the world can be described as <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">zombie firms:</span></b><br />
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<i>"The rising number of so-called zombie firms, defined as firms that are unable to cover debt servicing costs from current profits over an extended period, has attracted increasing attention in both academic and policy circles. Using firm-level data on listed firms in 14 advanced economies, we document a ratcheting-up in the prevalence of zombies since the late 1980s. Our analysis suggests that this increase is linked to reduced financial pressure, which in turn seems to reflect in part the effects of lower interest rates. We further find that zombies weigh on economic performance because they are less productive and because <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">their presence lowers investment in and employment at more productive firms</span></b>."</i>--BIS report,<i> supra.</i></blockquote>
<i>"Policies created to pull the world out of recession are still in place, but now they are strangling the global economy ... we are in a fat and slow world,"</i> wrote <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ruchir Sharma</span></b> in the <a href="https://nyti.ms/2WK2ELI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times, June 15, 2019</a>. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">What exactly is the problem?</span></b><br />
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"The trademarks of the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">fat and slow world</span></b>: larger corporations, declining competition and fewer start-ups (all of which contribute to wage inequality), ... together <u>undermine</u> and <u>slow</u> economies already hindered by falling growth in the working-age population."--Sharma, <i>supra.</i></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4)</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>ICYMI Tech News</b>:</span><br />
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Tech still drives US markets more than any other sector. If you don't like Tech stocks, it's hard to justify owning the S&P 500. We explain why here: <a href="https://t.co/W1RvpTkdHN">https://t.co/W1RvpTkdHN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24SPY&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$SPY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24XLK&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$XLK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24MSFT&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$MSFT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24FB&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$FB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24AMZN&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$AMZN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24AAPL&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$AAPL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24FB&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$FB</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24GOOG&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$GOOG</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24XLY&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$XLY</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24XLC&src=ctag&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">$XLC</a> <a href="https://t.co/hUpUc0Qpib">pic.twitter.com/hUpUc0Qpib</a></div>
— DataTrek Research (@DataTrekMB) <a href="https://twitter.com/DataTrekMB/status/1144665628856455169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Jony Ive</b> Is Leaving</span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Apple</span></b><i>--<u>but</u> he's <u>not</u> being replaced, and the design team reporting to operations makes no sense--</i><a href="https://daringfireball.net/2019/06/jony_ive_leaves_apple">daringfireball.net</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Walmart </span></b>Inc’s Indian unit <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Flipkart</span></b> said late Thursday it plans to replace nearly 40% of its current fleet of delivery vans with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flipkart-electricvehicles/indias-flipkart-to-replace-40-of-its-delivery-vans-with-evs-idUSKCN1TT0N8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">electric vehicles (EVs) by March 2020</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>iQiyi</b></span> (domain: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">iqiyi.com</span></b>) China’s<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span>version of <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Netflix</b></span>, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-iqiyi/chinas-iqiyi-looks-abroad-after-hitting-100-million-paying-subscribers-idUSKCN1TP13Q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reportedly</a> wants to enter overseas markets including North America and Japan after hitting a milestone of 100 million paying subscribers this month, even though the company has been in a cash-burning fight with <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tencent</span></b>’s video site and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Alibaba</span></b>-backed <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Youku Tudou</span></b> in China.<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <u>See also</u>:</span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China's Alibaba</span></b> aims to double <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tmall Global</span></b> brands with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alibaba-china/chinas-alibaba-aims-to-double-tmall-global-brands-with-english-portal-idUSKCN1TR0Z8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">English portal</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Toyota</span></b> to invest $2 billion in developing<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-indonesia/toyota-to-invest-2-billion-in-developing-electric-vehicles-in-indonesia-idUSKCN1TS1SL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> electric vehicles in Indonesia</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Goodbye, Chrome? </b></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google’s web browser has become spy software ... why <b>Firefox </b>is better</a> says Washington Post (owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos).<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Google Drive vs. Microsoft's OneDrive: </b></span><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-drive-vs-onedrive-which-one-is-better-for-your-business/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">choosing the right cloud storage and collaboration service</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Bezos Blowback? </b></span>Will The <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=AWS+JEDI+Scandal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AWS JEDI Scandal</a> Upset <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon's Omnipotence?</span></b>--<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-06/bezos-blowback-will-aws-jedi-scandal-upset-amazons-omnipotence" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zerohedge.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Empty Promise of Data Moats</span></b>--<a href="https://a16z.com/2019/05/09/data-network-effects-moats/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a16z.com</a>: <i>data goes stale over time…</i><br />
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The <a href="https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/european-digital-social-innovation-index/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">European Digital Social Innovation Index</a> by Nesta, published for the first time this year, found <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">London </span></b>came out on top in a ranking of 60 EU cities on indicators such as funding, skills, infrastructure and diversity. The European Digital Social Innovation Index (EDSII) is the first index ranking how different European cities support digital social innovation (DSI) <u>and</u> tech for good to grow and thrive. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">London</span></b> had a significant lead over <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amsterdam</span></b>, which came in second place. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Copenhagen, Stockholm</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Paris</span></b> <a href="https://www.cityam.com/london-named-top-city-for-eu-tech-for-good/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rounded out the top five</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Personal Tech:</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> going 'off the grid' this summer?</span></b> <a href="https://www.iridium.com/products/iridium-go/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Iridium GO!</a>--turn any smartphone into a satellite phone--you can get access to phone calls, text, and more, 'off-grid' via the <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/iridium-go-turn-any-smartphone-into-a-satellite-phone-with-internet-access/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Iridium satellite network</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Parting Thoughts:</span></b><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tulsi Gabbard</span></b> is the <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/450597-drudge-instant-poll-shows-tulsi-gabbard-winning-first-democratic-debate-in" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">winner</a>--Drudge instant poll shows Gabbard won the first Democratic debate in landslide.</li>
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<li><u>Always</u> "<a href="https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2019/06/19/how-to-read-financial-news-redux-process-determines-priorities/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ask if the algorithm</a>, which is a model of the world, is working the way it was designed to work. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Models</span></b> represent the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">market</span></b>, and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">models</span></b> are <u>not</u> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">reality</span></b>. As Alfred Korzybski said, <span style="color: #cccccc;">“The map is <u>not</u> the territory.”</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ric Deverell</span></b>, Chief Economist and Global Head of Macro Strategy at Macquarie in Sydney, Australia, says, depending on what happens at the G-20 meeting between Trump and Xi, there could be a "double dip" or a sharp pick up in global growth. CNBC International TV video above published Jun 21, 2019. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Macquarie Group Limited </span></b>(domain: <a href="https://www.macquarie.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">macquarie.com</a>) is an Australian multinational independent investment bank and financial services company.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">G20 Links: </span></b><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.g20.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.g20.org/en/</a> </li>
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<li>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/g20org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@g20org</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/G20OsakaSummit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#G20OsakaSummit</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/G20?src=hash" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#G20</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@realDonaldTrump</a></li>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jumia</span></b> has been dubbed the <i>"Amazon of Africa"</i> as Africa's largest e-commerce operator, surpassing Amazon and China's Alibaba, and it's the first African tech start-up to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. Investors had high hopes for Jumia when it went public on April 12. Now, Jumia is adjusting to its new international status, and figuring out what that status means for the African continent.<br />
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Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, former McKinsey & Company employees, founded the company in 2012. Like <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Alibaba</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jumia</span></b> allows customers to buy products like cell phones, shoes, and groceries online. Jumia also offers bill paying, food delivery, and cellular data plans.<br />
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China Daily, a Chinese state-run news organization, says that Alibaba serviced 4.2 million African customers through its AliExpress services since it entered the continent.<br />
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Jumia serviced 4.3 million users and 81,000 active sellers in 14 countries. Amazon is available in 11 countries on the African continent, but neither Amazon nor Alibaba have had the benefit of getting their start in African countries. Jumia, for example, offers unique features like allowing customers to pay for items upon delivery. CNBC video above published Jun 25, 2019.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jumia</a> is an e-commerce platform for electronics, fashion, and more. It has partnered with more than 81,000 local African companies and individuals and is a direct competitor to Kilimall in Kenya and Konga in Nigeria. Started in 2012 in Lagos, the company currently has a presence across 12 African countries.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jumia Technologies AG</span></b><br />
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<li>Domain: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">jumia.com / </span></b><a href="https://group.jumia.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">group.jumia.com</a></li>
<li>Founded: Nigeria</li>
<li>Traded as: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3A+JMIA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYSE: JMIA</a></li>
<li>Founders: Sacha Poignonnec, Raphael Kofi Afaedor, Tunde Kehinde</li>
<li>CEO: Sacha Poignonnec (2012–), Jeremy Hodara (2012–)</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Parent </span></b>organization:<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rocket Internet</a></li>
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A "Talks at Google" video published Jun 20, 2019,: Dave Jaggar discusses his inspiring career that led to the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ARM architecture</span></b> which effectively powers the digital world, being the reason that your phone is small and doesn't burn a hole in your pocket. Moderator: Raymond Blum. Transcript (auto-generated, unedited).<br />
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In the late 1980’s Acorn, a British one-hit-wonder computer company, faced imminent extinction, with its only assets being 18 months of life support rations and perhaps the worst microprocessor ever designed. What they did right was to hire Dave Jaggar, with the ink still wet on his master's thesis. Over eight years Dave systematically defined the entire ARM architecture, enabling it to be a popular embedded controller for the digital revolution, with around 100 billion units shipped. As ARM’s Head of Architecture Design, Dave authored the ARM Architectural Reference Manual and is the Founding Director of the ARM Austin Design Center. More on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ARM architecture</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ARM Holdings</span></b> is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company, owned by <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">SoftBank Group</span></b> and its <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Vision Fund</span></b>. Processors based on designs licensed from ARM, or designed by licensees of one of the ARM instruction set architectures, are used in all classes of computing devices (including in space). ARM is viewed as the most important chip design infrastructure provider in the world as its microchips go into more than 90% of world’s mobile devices.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">On June 22, 2019</span></b>, SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son said he wants to re-list ARM Holdings Plc as a publicly traded company within the next five years (the British chipmaker was acquired for $32 billion in 2016):<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Arm Limited </span></b>a/k/a <a href="http://arm%20holdings/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arm Holdings</a><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">: </span></b><br />
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<li>Number of employees: about 6,250 (2018)</li>
<li>Owner: SoftBank Group 75%; Vision Fund 25%</li>
<li>Headquarters: Cambridge, England, UK</li>
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Jaggar's book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Reference-Manual-Dave-Jagger/dp/0137362994" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arm Architecture Reference Manual</a><br />
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FT.com's Richard Henderson interview of the founder of the rival IEX exchange on why it has failed to capture much more than 3 per cent of the US equity trading market. Michael Lewis’s book 'Flash Boys' depicted Mr Katsuyama as a crusader against a market that had become 'rigged' to benefit high-speed traders. Financial Times (ft.com) video above published Jun 10, 2019.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IEX Stock Exchange</a> is a stock exchange based in the United States. It was founded in 2012 and launched as a national securities exchange in September 2016. On October 24, 2017, IEX received regulatory approval from the SEC to list companies. IEX listed its first public company, Interactive Brokers, on October 5, 2018.<br />
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<li>Key people: Brad Katsuyama (CEO); Ronan Ryan (President)</li>
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Interview and Q&A on June 3, 2019, at the Economic Club of New York, with billionaire investor <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Stanley+Druckenmiller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stanley Druckenmiller</a>, Chairman & CEO, Duquesne Family Office LLC. Topics covered include current macroeconomic factors and the impact of changes in interest rates, the US-China trade war, and more. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-cU0V7mSQPFBMduWtc3I8_pXT5uSOERG/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transcript</a> (auto-generated, unedited)(pdf).<br />
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“It’s very clear to me that you need a hurdle rate for investment and that if you don’t have a hurdle rate for investment, bad things happen.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ECNYDruck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ECNYDruck</a></div>
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On his economic ideology: “When I got in the business it became clear to me that macroeconomic statistics of precocity the economy, they’re really great at telling where you are and where you’ve been. The best economic predictor is the inside of the stock market.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ECNYDruck?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ECNYDruck</a></div>
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<i>Domain Mondo's weekly internet domain news review (NR 2019-06-23) with analysis and opinion: </i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Features • </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1) </span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">ICANN65, Marrakech, Morocco, June 24-27: EPDP, </span><span style="color: orange;">.AMAZON </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">& ICANN</span></b></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>, </b></span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2)</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Other </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN news: <b>New gTLD .AFRICA Litigation Update,</b></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> <b>3)</b> <b>a. Voice.com Record Sale Price, b. </b></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Website Security & Malware,</b> </span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4)</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICYMI: </span><b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">The Internet Is Changing Africa</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">,</span></b> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>5)</b> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Most Read.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1) </span><a href="https://meetings.icann.org/en/marrakech65" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN65, Marrakech, Morocco, June 24-27</a></b><br />
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The <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN Policy Forum</span></b> is the second meeting in ICANN's three-meeting annual cycle, duration is four (4) days, and format is focused on SO/AC/SG/C policy work and outreach, and therefore: <b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">•</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b><u>no</u> welcome ceremony; <span style="color: #eeeeee;"><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">•</span> </b></span><u>no</u> public forum(s);<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">•</span></b></span> <u>no</u> public board meeting.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>*</b></span><a href="https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1058177" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>GAC: New gTLDs Subsequent Procedures Discussion</b></a><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> 15:15 - 16:15, Mon, Jun 24 </b></span>[<span style="color: #cccccc;">10:15am EDT in U.S.</span>] "Assess progress of PDP WG deliberations on issues of importance to the GAC. Discuss formation and operation of the GAC Focal Group on Subsequent Rounds of gTLDs."<br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;">*</span><a href="https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1058165" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GNSO-EPDP Phase 2 Meeting (1 of 2)</a> </b><b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">8:30 - 15:00, Tue, Jun 25 </span></b>--<a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-June/002168.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Notes & Action Items</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: orange;"><br /></span></b>EPDP background: <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/attachments/20190618/61b9e2d9/CPHCommentsonPurposesTemplate-0001.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CPH comments on Purposes</a> (pdf), SO/AC/SG/C <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=109479372" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">early input</a>, and last week's <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/news-review-1-cyber-sovereignty-rising.html" target="_blank">News Review 2)b.</a> <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">Links</span></u> to the EPDP meetings' recordings and transcripts (when available) are posted on the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#jun" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GNSO calendar</a>. <span style="color: #cccccc;">Other <b>EPDP Links</b>:</span> <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wiki</a>, <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">public mail list</a>, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">legal</span></b> <a href="https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=105386422" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">memos</a> & <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-legal/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mail list</a>, <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/council/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GNSO mail list</a>, <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/b.+Worksheets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">worksheets</a>, <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/c.+Working+definitions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">definitions</a>. Jun 20 meeting <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/2019-06-20+EPDP-+Phase+2+call+%237" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">notes / action items</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-weight: bold;">*</span><a href="https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1058181" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>GAC: </b>DNS Abuse Mitigation and <b>dot Amazon </b>Discussions</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">8:30 - 10:15, Tue, Jun 25</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>: read </span><a href="http://theconversation.com/amazon-wins-amazon-domain-name-aggravating-south-american-region-and-undermining-digital-commons-118186" rel="" target="_blank"><b>Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region and undermining digital commons |</b> theconversation.com</a>, excerpt:<br />
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"... At its inception, the internet was a great equaliser. It meant large and small businesses could compete with one another on a level playing field. ICANN has been entrusted with administering the internet and protecting it. That means protecting its broader purpose in society. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN appears to have forgotten that part of its role.</span></b> It now charges costs USD$185,000 for a top-level domain name like “.amazon”. It’s not surprising that a company whose 2018 profits were reportedly USD$11.2 billion – for which it paid no federal taxes – was able to purchase the domain before an indigenous community in Brazil. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The implications for the future of the internet are troubling</span></b>. What was a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">global commons</span></b> may become an exclusive field where those who have the most can acquire more. Those who have the least meanwhile lose even the right to use the name of their homeland." (emphasis added) [See also the author's <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/van-ho-doyle-to-chalaby-22apr19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">letter to ICANN Board</a> (pdf)]</blockquote>
The<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> .AMAZON issues</b> </span>illustrate how<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <b>ill-conceived </b><u>and</u><b> corrupt</b></span> the <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">entire</span></u><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> .BRAND new gTLDs program </b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;">is</span>--a<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> "brand"</b></span> a/k/a <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>"trademark" </b></span>is<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span><u>neither</u><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span>a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=a+trademark+is+not+a+monopoly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">monopoly</a> <u>nor</u><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=a+trademark+is+not+generic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">generic</a>,<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span>and therefore all ".BRAND gTLDs" <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">fail</span></u> as "<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">generic top-level domains</span></b>" (<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">gTLDs</span></b>),<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b>see<b> </b></span><a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1591.txt" rel="" target="_blank">RFC 1591</a>. The <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.BRAND new gTLDs program</span></b> was a way for <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/news-review-corruption-at-icann.html" target="_blank">incompetent, corrupt, unfit</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN</span></b>, and some of its contracted parties, <i>i.e., </i>registry service providers, to make money by <a href="https://www.thefreedictionary.com/extorting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">extorting</a> trademark holders--<i>"apply for a .BRAND new gTLD or ICANN may sell your .BRAND (trademark) gTLD to someone else"-- e.g.,</i> <u>see</u> <b><a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09-14-16%20Grove%20Testimony.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">.PING testimony</a>.</b> <u>Most</u> .BRAND gTLDs are primarily a costly expense in trademark defense (instead, ICANN should have given trademark holders a right to block any gTLD application that infringes a legitimate distinctive trademark, and governmental authorities the right to block any gTLD application that is for a recognized or protected geographic term under applicable law). Unsurprisingly, many .BRAND gTLDs have been abandoned and <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/terminated-registry-agreements-2016-03-02-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">returned to ICANN</a>, while <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.BRANDs</span></b> like <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">.GOOGLE </span></b>(and<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b>.AMAZON</span>), in effect, contribute to the splintering of the internet into a few <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">monopolistic platforms</span></b>, smothering all competitors, <u>undermining</u> the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">digital commons</span></b> and the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">core internet principle </span></b>that <u><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">all TLDs</span></b></u> are <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>"global public resources"</b>--see<b> </b></span><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/litigation-haim-et-al-us-brief-amicus-curiae-29dec15-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">U.S. amicus brief in the Weinstein case</a>. <br />
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<i>"... <a href="https://www.ricksblog.com/2019/04/domain-investors-are-used-and-abused-icann-needs-to-be-fully-investigated/" rel="" target="_blank">ICANN is a corrupt <b>racketeering</b> organization. It's a crime syndicate that advances interests of a few insiders at the expense of the masses and the general good. They have abused their power and their role</a> ..."</i></blockquote>
The GAC-ICANN Board discussion re:<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> .AMAZON</span></b> (1:07:50-1:55:00) Wednesday morning via Livestream below:
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>*</b></span><a href="https://65.schedule.icann.org/meetings/1058195" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Impacts of EPDP Phase 1 Recommendations on Other ICANN Policies and Procedures</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">15:15 - 16:45, Thu, Jun 27, 2019</span></b> (10:15am EDT) <a href="https://static.ptbl.co/static/attachments/214878/1561564702.pptx?1561564702" target="_blank">slide deck</a>, Livestrean video below:
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN Meeting & Media Resources:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2)</span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Other <span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN News</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">New gTLD .AFRICA Litigation Update: </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">DotConnectAfrica Trust</span></b>, a Mauritius Charitable Trust, Plaintiff, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">v. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</span></b> (<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN</span></b>), a California Corporation; <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ZA Central Registry</span></b>, a South African non-profit company; and DOES 1-50, inclusive; Defendants:<br />
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May 21, 2019: "On the Court's own motion, the Trial Setting Conference scheduled for 05/21/2019, and NonJury Trial On Phase I (Estoppel) scheduled for 05/21/2019 are continued to 07/11/19 [July 11, 2019] at 10:00 AM in Department 53 at Stanley Mosk Courthouse ..."<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>3)</b> </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Names, Domains & Trademarks: Website Security & Malware</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>a. Largest publicly reported all cash domain name sale in history </b></span><a href="https://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2019/20190626.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">revealed June 18, 2019</a>, the<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> $30 million </b></span>sale of <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Voice.com</b></span>, more than double the previous record of <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>$13 million </b></span>paid for<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> Sex.com</b></span> in<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> 2010.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">b. Website Security & Malware: </span></b><a href="https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/335195" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Than 150,000 Small-Business Websites</a> in the U.S. could be infected with malware at any given moment--in one case, security firm <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">SiteLock</span></b> (sitelock.com) discovered the hackers had exploited a security hole in a Wordpress plugin--see <a href="https://www.sitelock.com/blog/cybersecurity-checklist-for-smb/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Cybersecurity Checklist for the Modern Small Business</a>. <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Also</u>:</span> <a href="https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/06/12/fbi-warns-users-to-be-wary-of-phishing-sites-abusing-https/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FBI warns</a> users to be wary of phishing sites abusing HTTPS.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Internet Is Changing Africa:</span></b> <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/the-internet-is-changing-africa-for-the-better-chan-zuckerberg-gates/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cheap smartphones are flooding Africa</a>, bringing internet access to many for the very first time, but there are<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> problems: </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">gambling,</span></b> particularly sports betting in Africa's more developed nations, with about 60 million Nigerians aged between 18 and 40 betting daily. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China </span></b>is investing in infrastructure, but with that comes <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Huawei</span></b> equipment, <i>e.g.,</i> <a href="https://qz.com/africa/1192493/china-spied-on-african-union-headquarters-for-five-years/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China built the African Union building</a> in Ethiopia, including installation of <a href="https://www.cfr.org/blog/african-union-bugged-china-cyber-espionage-evidence-strategic-shifts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tapped networking equipment</a> [the building was built in 2012 by the Chinese, the African Union's IT staff later discovered that the <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2018/01/26/a-addis-abeba-le-siege-de-l-union-africaine-espionne-par-les-chinois_5247521_3212.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">entire content of its servers</a> was being transferred to China.]<br />
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<b><a href="http://nautil.us/issue/73/play/wechat-is-watching" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WeChat Is Watching</a>:</b> WeChat's data centralization has inextricably linked it to all aspects of daily life in <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China</span></b> and made it a cornerstone of the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">government's social-credit system</span></b>.<br />
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<i>Tech Review (TR 2019-06-22)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news: </i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Features • </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1)</span></b> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Big Tech & Antitrust,</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 2)</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">World's Most Valuable <span style="color: #cccccc;">Brands</span> 2019, </span><span style="color: orange;">Huawei?</span></b> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3)</span></b> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Investing: </span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="color: lime;">The Week</span></b> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">& Investor Notes: </span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Where the 'Ready' Users of </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Libra & Calibra</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> Are,</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4)</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICYMI Tech News: <b>Unicorns, 5G, Nvidia & ARM, Google, Walmart, Slack, </b><i>and more.</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1) Big Tech & Antitrust</span></b><br />
Antitrust expert Doug Melamed on the new probes into Big Tech
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Doug Melamed, Stanford law professor</span></b>, joins CNBC's "Squawk Alley" to discuss how the Microsoft antitrust case he helped bring to court might affect the new probes into major tech companies. CNBC Television video above published Jun 13, 2019.<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>2) </b></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>World's Most Valuable Brands 2019</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Visa, Facebook, Alibaba, Tencent, McDonald's, AT&T</span></b>.<br />
For more: <a href="http://online.pubhtml5.com/bydd/ksdy/#p=5" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2019</a> (published June 2019).<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>:</span> <b><span style="color: orange;">Huawei? </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">#47. Where will Huawei be next year? </span></b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-revenue/huawei-says-us-ban-hurting-more-than-expected-to-wipe-30-billion-off-revenue-idUSKCN1TI0KL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Huawei says U.S. ban hurting more than expected, to wipe $30 billion off revenue</a> and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-16/huawei-braces-for-a-steep-drop-in-overseas-smartphone-sales" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bloomberg.com</a>: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Huawei Braces for Phone Sales Drop of Up to 60 Million Overseas.</span></b><br />
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<i>"The most ambitious start-ups attempted to transcend their region of origin to become seen as global brands."--<a href="https://brandz.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">brandz.com</a></i></blockquote>
<b><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-cash-is-suddenly-toxic-in-silicon-valley-following-u-s-pressure-campaign-11560263302" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chinese Cash In Silicon Valley Is Suddenly Toxic</a>:</b> as <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>U.S. startups</b></span> <u>reject</u> their money, Chinese venture-capital firms in U.S. are structuring deals to avoid regulators or shutting down. <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>See also</u>:</span> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-17/world-s-top-bicycle-maker-says-era-of-made-in-china-is-over?srnd=premium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World’s Top Bicycle Maker Says the Era of ‘Made in China’ Is Over</a> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Apple Explores Moving Some Production Out of China</span></b>--Trade tensions prompt iPhone maker to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-examines-feasibility-of-shifting-some-production-out-of-china-11561030751" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">consider diversifying supply chain</a>. On <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-commerce-china/u-s-bars-china-supercomputer-firms-institute-from-buying-american-parts-idUSKCN1TM212" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Friday</a> the U.S. Department of Commerce expanded its <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">national security “entity list”</span></b> to bar Chinese supercomputer firms from buying U.S. parts and components without U.S. government approval.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3)</span> </b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Investing</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="color: lime;">The Week</span></b>--</span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ+Composite" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ Composite</a> <b><span style="color: lime;">+3.0%</span></b> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sp500" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">S&P 500 Index</a> <b><span style="color: lime;">+2.2%</span></b> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Dow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DJIA</a> <span style="color: lime;"><b>+2.4%</b></span>--<i><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-stocks-tread-water-after-s-p-record-11561105675" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">for the week</a> all three major U.S. stock indexes gained at least 2.2%, with the S&P 500 hitting its first record close since April. </i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Backstory: </span></b>U.S. stocks ended slightly lower Friday, but <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stocks-end-slightly-lower-a-day-after-sp-notches-record-close-2019-06-21">locked in</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">strong weekly gains</span></b> after the Federal Reserve indicated on <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/fed-chair-live-jun-19-230pm-edt-ecb.html">Wednesday</a> it could carry out rate cuts later this year if economic conditions decline, with investors eyeing a slowdown in the global economy, and the <a href="https://www.g20.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G20 meeting</a> in <a href="https://www.japan.go.jp/g20japan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Osaka, Japan, 28-29 June 2019</a>, where a widely anticipated meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump may take place.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Investor Notes</b></span>--<span style="color: #cccccc;">where the</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>'ready' users </b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;">of </span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Libra & Calibra already are:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Background</u>:</span><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/how-libra-cryptocurrency-blockchain.html" rel="" target="_blank"><b>How Libra Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Network Will Work (video)</b></a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/fed-chair-live-jun-19-230pm-edt-ecb.html" target="_blank">Fed Chair LIVE Jun 19, 2:30pm EDT, ECB Draghi Chaos,<b> Facebook Calibra & Libra</b></a>: <i>"The first product <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Calibra</span></b> will introduce is a digital wallet for <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Libra</span></b>, a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">new global currency</span></b> powered by blockchain technology."</i></li>
<li>In an opinion piece in the Financial Times on Friday, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Facebook Inc’s co-founder Chris Hughes</span></b> said the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Libra cryptocurrency</span></b> would hand over much of the control of <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">monetary policy</span></b> from central banks to private companies: <i>“If global regulators don’t act now, it could very soon be too late,”</i> wrote Hughes, who also said the corporations that would oversee the new currency would put their <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">private interests </span></b>- <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">profits and influence</span></b> - ahead of <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">public ones</span></b>. <span style="color: orange;"><u>Editor's note</u>:</span> <span style="color: #cccccc;">what Hughes describes is exactly how</span> <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/news-review-corruption-at-icann.html" target="_blank">ICANN has been corrupted</a>. </li>
<li>The international <a href="https://www.fatf-gafi.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Financial Action Task Force</a> (FATF) has issued updated guidance concerning regulation of <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">cryptocurrency</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">virtual assets</span></b> at its <a href="https://www.fatf-gafi.org/publications/fatfrecommendations/documents/guidance-rba-virtual-assets.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">meeting in Orlando, Florida</a>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">European central bankers </span></b>claim oversight over Facebook’s cryptocurrency--<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-crypto/european-central-bankers-claim-oversight-over-facebooks-cryptocurrency-idUSKCN1TM188" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">reuters.com</a>. Reuters also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-crypto-france/france-creates-g7-cryptocurrency-task-force-as-facebooks-libra-unsettles-governments-idUSKCN1TM0SO?il=0" target="_blank">reported</a> that France is creating a G7 task force to study how central banks ensure <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">cryptocurrencies </span></b>like<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Facebook’s Libra</span></b> are governed by regulations ranging from money-laundering laws to consumer-protection rules.</li>
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"<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Unicorns</span></b> are amazingly deflationary vehicles. They're deflating rents, they're deflating driver salaries, they're deflating all kinds of things"--renown short-seller <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Jim Chanos</span></b> explaining how <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-chanos-silicon-valley-unicorns-suppressing-inflation-federal-reserve-role-2019-6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Silicon Valley unicorns have pushed prices lower and why central banks are to blame</a>.<br />
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According to latest estimates by<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> Ericsson, </b></span><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/9604/5g-subscription-forecast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>5G</b> won’t really take off until</a> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>2021/2022. </b><u>See also</u> </span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Crown Castle International:</b> </span>a play on the coming of 5G and the expansion of IoT--<a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4270596-crown-castle-international-great-dividend-stock" target="_blank">SeekingAlpha.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Nvidia </span></b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nvidia-arm-inc-idUSKCN1TI0M9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">says its accelerator chips will work with</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ARM processors</span></b> by end of this year.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Google</span></b> will <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/17/18681573/google-rcs-chat-android-texting-carriers-imessage-encryption" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">eventually provide</a> <span style="color: #cccccc;">RCS Chat</span> (replacement for SMS texting) directly to any Android user. <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Note also</u> </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Google</span></b> <u>cancels</u> plans for <a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/3404206/googles-officially-done-making-its-own-tablets.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">future tablets</a>, focusing instead on <a href="https://store.google.com/product/pixel_compare" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pixel phones</a> and <a href="https://store.google.com/us/product/google_pixelbook?hl=en-US" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pixelbooks</a> (chromebooks).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Urban Mobility: Getting Beyond Gridlock</span></b>--<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/sustainability/our-insights/getting-beyond-gridlock-in-cities" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">by 2030 robo-taxis, autonomous shuttles, and trains</a>, will provide most <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">urban mobility</span></b> with private cars only a very small share, and buses almost non-existent.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Walmart:</span></b> <a href="https://news.walmart.com/2019/06/12/update-on-our-us-ecommerce-strategy-and-the-role-of-jet" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">U.S. eCommerce Strategy and the Role of Jet.com</a>. Walmart is the fourth largest online retailer in the US in 2019, according to eMarketer estimates, behind only Amazon, eBay, and Apple. <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>See also</u>:</span> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-best-buy/apple-says-iphones-can-now-be-fixed-at-all-u-s-best-buy-stores-idUSKCN1TK1W1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple says iPhones</a> can now be <u>fixed</u> at all U.S.<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Best Buy </span></b>stores, <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown</span></b> Gets Costly for Big Retailers--<a href="https://wolfstreet.com/2019/06/19/how-big-retailers-try-to-survive-the-brick-and-mortar-meltdown-but-its-costly-and-results-may-vary/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wolfstreet.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Slack closed at $38.62</span></b>, June 20, 2019, up 48.5% from its $26 reference price, on its first day of trading as a direct listing, valuing the company at about $20B. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Domain:</span></b> <a href="https://slack.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">slack.com</a>. Investor relations: <a href="https://investor.slackhq.com/home/default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://investor.slackhq.com/home/default.aspx</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>UK:</b> likely next Prime Minister, Boris Johnson</span>, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-leader-johnson-idUSKCN1TH0T7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pledges to 'end the digital divide' by 2025</a>, via a full rollout of fiber broadband.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Personal Tech: </span></b>most <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>U.S. mobile banking apps</b></span> have <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/banking-apps-security-flaws/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>security and privacy flaws</b></a>, researchers say.<br />
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How did direct to consumer startup <b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">MeUndies</span></b> (domain: <a href="https://meundies.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">meundies.com</a>) sell over 10 million pairs of underwear? Founder Jonathan Shokrian talks to CNBC about <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">shock advertising</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">social media</span></b> and MeUndies' road to success.<br />
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Jonathan Shokrian started MeUndies after a negative experience buying underwear at a department store. He raised $400,000, mostly from friends and family, and launched the <span style="color: #cccccc;">millennial-friendly</span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">direct to consumer</span></b> underwear start-up in 2011.<br />
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"Ecommerce is <u>not</u> just Amazon. It’s every online retailer out there, including the tiniest mom-and-pop operations. It’s manufacturers selling directly to consumers. In fact, it’s manufacturers in India or China selling directly to US consumers as third party-vendors on platforms such as Amazon, Alibaba, eBay, and others. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The entire world is trying to sell directly to US consumers</span></b>, bypassing classic middlemen, wholesalers, distribution channels, importers, and of course, brick-and-mortar retailers."--<a href="https://wolfstreet.com/2019/06/19/how-big-retailers-try-to-survive-the-brick-and-mortar-meltdown-but-its-costly-and-results-may-vary/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wolfstreet.com</a></blockquote>
According to Shokrian, MeUndies has sold over 10 million pairs of underwear and has been profitable in each of the past three years. The company will end 2019 with at least $75 million in annual revenue. How did MeUndies start a successful direct to consumer brand? MeUndies was off to a slow start until it turned to social media and harnessed the power of provocation. CNBC video above published June 7, 2019.<br />
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Scott Kupor of Silicon Valley VC firm <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Andreessen Horowitz</span></b> (<a href="https://a16z.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a16z.com</a>) joins CNBC's "Closing Bell" to discuss Facebook's new cryptocurrency, June 19, 2019.<br />
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"... we are joining the Libra Association as a Founding Member. The Libra Association is a membership organization behind Libra, a new global currency and financial infrastructure built on blockchain technology. Libra brings together a world-class group of partners, including:<br />
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"These organizations can help Libra reach a critical mass of users, businesses and developers, with the goal of mainstreaming crypto adoption ..."--<a href="https://a16z.com/2019/06/18/libra/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a16z.com</a></blockquote>
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employment and price stability. In support of these goals, the Committee [FOMC] decided to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 2-1/4 to 2-1/2 percent.</span></b>"<br />
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<a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Federal Open Market Committee</a> (FOMC) meeting Jun 18-19, with <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fed Chair Jerome Powell news conference set for Wednesday, June 19 at 2:30 p.m. EDT</span></b>. S&P expects the Fed to signal at its June policy meeting that it intends to begin cutting rates. Federal funds futures trading had been pricing in two rate cuts before the end of the year, but only a 23% probability of a cut at this June meeting. Donald Trump and Larry Summers agree that rates are too high, inflation too low, yet the Fed is still facing the results of keeping interest rates too low for too long (Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen's QE and ZIRP) the effects of which continue throughout the economy. Background: see previous <a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/videos.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FOMC press conferences</a> (video) and <a href="http://federalreserve.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">federalreserve.gov</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/federalreserve" target="_blank">@federalreserve</a>.<br />
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On top of that the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi</span></b> <i>"unleashed global chaos with his preview of more stilmulus, prompting an angry response from President Trump"</i>--more <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-18/draghi-unleashes-global-chaos-preview-more-stimulus-prompts-angry-response-trump" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-18/euro-bund-yields-slide-stocks-rebound-draghi-clears-way-more-stimulus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and here: <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-18/how-draghi-shock-unleashed-chaos-powells-most-important-day" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How The "Draghi Shock" Unleashed Chaos On Powell's Most Important Day | zerohedge.com</a>.<br />
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Mario Draghi just announced more stimulus could come, which immediately dropped the Euro against the Dollar, making it unfairly easier for them to compete against the USA. They have been getting away with this for years, along with China and others.</div>
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Meanwhile, <a href="https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/06/coming-in-2020-calibra/" rel="" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b> just announced</a> it will <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">disrupt the global central banking system</span></b> using a "New <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Digital Wallet</b></span> [<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Calibra, </span></b>domain:<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><a href="https://calibra.com/" target="_blank">calibra.com</a></b></span>] for a New <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Digital Currency</span></b> [<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Libra,</span></b> domain: <a href="https://libra.org/en-US/" target="_blank">libra.org</a>,]" based on blockchain technology:<br />
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<i>Today we’re sharing plans for Calibra, a newly formed <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Facebook</span></b> </i>[<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ%3A+FB" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ: FB</a>] <i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">subsidiary</span></b> whose goal is to provide <u>financial services</u> that will let people access and participate in the Libra network. The first product <b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Calibra</u></span></b> will introduce is a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">digital wallet for <u>Libra</u></span></b>, a<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> new global currency </span></b>powered by blockchain technology. The wallet will be available in Messenger, WhatsApp and as a standalone app — and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">we expect to launch in 2020</span></b> ....</i></blockquote>
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<i>For many people around the world, even basic financial services are still out of reach: almost half of the adults in the world don’t have an active bank account and those numbers are worse in developing countries and even worse for women. The cost of that exclusion is high — approximately 70% of small businesses in developing countries lack access to credit and $25 billion is lost by migrants every year through remittance fees. </i><i>This is the challenge we’re hoping to address with Calibra, a new digital wallet that you’ll be able to use to save, send and spend Libra. </i><i>From the beginning, Calibra will let you send Libra to almost anyone with a smartphone, as easily and instantly as you might send a text message and at low to no cost.</i></blockquote>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>See also</u> </span><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/how-libra-cryptocurrency-blockchain.html" target="_blank">How Libra Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Network Will Work (video)</a> <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">and</span></u><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Facebook Token Runs Into Instant Political Opposition in Europe</span></b>-- <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-18/france-calls-for-central-bank-review-of-facebook-cryptocurrency" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">French finance chief says it can’t be a ‘sovereign currency’-- Germany’s Ferber sees Facebook becoming a shadow bank | bloomberg.com</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/caitlinlong/2019/06/09/what-facebooks-cryptocurrency-means-6-predictions/#5ba26f227022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What Facebook's Cryptocurrency Means: 6 Predictions</a></li>
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<i>The big tech companies are smothering small start-ups. Minor changes to a platform’s algorithms can harm a business’s traffic overnight.</i>--Alan Patricof, Silicon Valley VC</blockquote>
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Washington is taking aim at big tech, and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon, Apple, Google,</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Facebook</span></b> could be vulnerable to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">antitrust actions</span></b>. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Alan+Patricof" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alan Patricof</a>, co-founder and managing partner at<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Greycroft Ventures</span></b> (<a href="https://www.greycroft.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">greycroft.com</a>), joins the discussion on CNBC's "Squawk Box." CNBC Television video above published Jun 6, 2019.<br />
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<i>"Let’s face it, the Internet is a utility and so are the corporations who control it .... Technology needs to be regulated."</i>--<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-face-internet-utility-so-corporations-who-control-alan-patricof" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alan Patricof</a>.<br />
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I'm concerned about the influence tech giants have over our business and societal landscape. Read the full version of my piece that was originally published in <a href="https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FinancialTimes</a>. <a href="https://t.co/HVGo3MvHgH">https://t.co/HVGo3MvHgH</a></div>
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In case you missed it, check out my article in today's Financial Times. <a href="https://t.co/c61Q4jyLKz">https://t.co/c61Q4jyLKz</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@financialtimes</a></div>
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Like it or not our congress has got to reconsider our monopilies and anti trust laws to deal with the issues arising from the internet. Open and fair competition is critical to building our 21st century economy.</div>
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The "true" founder of the internet,Larry Roberts who originated his work at ARPAin the 1960's , died over xmas at age 81.His seminal work in packet switching and his decision to build a network across multiple computers is responsible for the myriad of applications we use today</div>
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<i>Domain Mondo's weekly internet domain news review (NR 2019-06-16) with analysis and opinion: </i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Features • </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1) </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Cyber Sovereignty Rising,</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">China's Vision of Internet Sovereignty Spreading</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">, </span></b><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2)</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">ICANN Fatally Flawed?</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">a.Afilias v. ICANN .WEB IRP Update</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">,</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> b. </span></b><b><span style="color: cyan;">EPDP Meeting June 20 UPDATE</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">, </span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>3) a.</b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Trademarkia v. LegalZoom, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>b. </b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;">CJEU on Geograpnic Terms,</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b> c.</b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Kaddish.com, </span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4)</span> </b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>ICYMI, </b></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>5)</b> </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Most Read</span>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1) </span></b><b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Cyber Sovereignty Rising, </span></b><b style="color: #6fa8dc;">China's Vision of Internet Sovereignty Spreading</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China</span></b> is offering<span style="color: #cccccc;"> a new version of the internet</span>. This new <u>vision</u> combines sweeping <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">content curbs</span></b> with uncompromising <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">data controls</span></b>. It’s called <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Cyber Sovereignty</span></b> and it’s already spreading to other countries around the world. Bloomberg.com video above published June 10, 2019.<br />
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<b>Two Slides from <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/mary-meekers-2019-internet-trends.html" rel="" target="_blank">Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report</a>:</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Global Internet Users 3.8B</span></b> (<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">51%</span></b> of world population), Growth Slowing: +6% vs. +7% Y/Y. Future growth in internet users will largely come from Asia Pacific, Africa & Middle East.<br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Google’s Chrome Browser Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’</span></b>--Google has far-reaching control over how the web works, and who gets to create new ways of accessing it--<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-28/google-s-chrome-becomes-web-gatekeeper-and-rivals-complain?srnd=technology-vp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bloomberg.com</a>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">$20 Phones Could Bring a Billion People Online:</span></b> about half of humanity doesn’t have internet access, and a lot of those people are in Africa. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-07/the-next-big-phones-could-bring-a-billion-people-online?srnd=premium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enter a $20 device with smartphone brains and a five-day battery</a>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Taiwan</span></b>'s digital minister on<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> combating disinformation </span></b><u><span style="color: #cccccc;">without</span></u> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">censorship</span></b>--<a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2019/05/qa-taiwans-digital-minister-on-combatting-disinfor.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cpj.org</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-13/telegram-traces-cyber-attack-to-china-amid-hong-kong-protests" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram says</a> it faced a massive DDoS attack originating from <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China</span></b> coinciding with protests in Hong Kong, where organizers used the app to evade surveillance.</li>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">2) </span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN News: </span></span><span style="color: orange;">ICANN Fatally Flawed?</span></b><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">government</span></b>. While this express transfer included the powers and authority necessary to oversee</i></div>
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<i>the secure and stable operation of the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Internet</span></b>’s DNS, the transfer <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">did <u>not</u> include </span></b>the power,</i></div>
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<i>authority, or expertise to act as a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">competition regulator</span></b> by challenging or policing <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">transactions</span></u></i></div>
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<i>and <u><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">conduct</span></b></u> that could be deemed <u><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">anticompetitive</span></b></u>."</i>--<span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN Board Member and Neustar former employee, <b>Becky Burr</b></span>, <i><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-witness-statement-burr-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">infra</a>, at p. 10, May 31, 2019, in <u>Afilias v. ICANN</u> IRP </i>(emphasis added).</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>:</span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">if Becky Burr</span></b> (a/k/a J. Beckwith Burr)<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> is right,</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span>the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">competition provisions</span></b> in ICANN's articles and bylaws (see above) are essentially meaningless, and <span style="color: orange;"><b>ICANN is fatally flawed</b></span> and should therefore be replaced by the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">global internet community</span></b> <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">forthwith</span></u>, remembering the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3zjyRMTBSc7UzViS0stOWhQR3c/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">competition advice</a> that was given to ICANN (via <a href="https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/icann_081218.pdf" target="_blank">NTIA</a>) by the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division</span></b> in 2008, but which <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN</span></b> disregarded in favor of its own <a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/06/news-review-corruption-at-icann.html" target="_blank">ill-conceived and corrupt new gTLDs program</a> full of anti-competitive provisions.</div>
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<i><span style="color: #cccccc;">"Let’s face it, the <b>Internet is a utility</b> and so are the corporations who control it ... Technology <b>needs to be regulated</b>."</span></i>--<a href="https://www.greycroft.com/people/alan-patricof/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Alan Patricof</b></a>, longtime innovator and venture capitalist, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-face-internet-utility-so-corporations-who-control-alan-patricof" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">April 30, 2019</a>. </blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">a. </span></b><b style="color: #6fa8dc;">.WEB IRP Update: </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dueling ICANN Board Members & Dueling Expert Witnesses</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Afilias </a><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Domains No. 3 Limited, Claimant, </a><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">v. ICANN</a><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/irp-afilias-v-icann-2018-11-30-en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">, Respondent</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, Independent Review Process<b> </b></span>(<span style="color: #cccccc;">IRP</span>), 31 May 2019 filing by <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN:</span></b><br />
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<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-icann-response-amended-request-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>ICANN's Response</b> to Claimant's Amended Request for IRP</a>, excerpt, p.25:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Exhibits to ICANN's Response below</span></b> (<a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-basis-redactions-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">basis for redactions</a>)<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">:</span></b><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-exhibits-r1-r16-redacted-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exhibits R-1 to R-16; Claimant's Exhibits cited in ICANN's Response; Legal Authorities R-LA-1 to R-LA-3</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-witness-statement-willett-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Witness Statement of Christine Willett</a> (ICANN GDD VP, gTLD Operations)</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-exhibits-a-h-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exhibits A to H</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-witness-statement-burr-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Witness Statement of <b>J. Beckwith Burr</b></a> (ICANN Board Member, formerly employed by Neustar) <span style="color: #cccccc;">a/k/a</span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Becky Burr</span></b> [Burr basically counters the statement previously filed by Afilias of former ICANN Board Member <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-report-sadowsky-redacted-21mar19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">George Sadowsky</a>];</li>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Burr statement excerpt</span></b> (p. 12): "No policy, precedent, or authority
permits ICANN, based on competition concerns, to block Verisign from acquiring the rights to
operate .WEB or to second-guess the judgment of the DOJ – the ultimate competition regulator
in the United States – in determining not to act following its own expert and thorough
investigation."<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-exhibits-a-b-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exhibits A to B</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-expert-report-carlton-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Expert Report of Dennis W. Carlton</a> (ICANN's Expert Witness) who counters the Expert Report previously filed by Afilias of <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-expert-report-zittrain-21mar19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jonathan Zittrain</a>;</li>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Carlton report excerpts</span></b> (pp.9-12):<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b>"Applicants have collectively spent several hundred million dollars to become the operators of these new gTLDs. From 2013 to 2017, applicants spent a total of $294.6 million in new gTLD application fees, paid another $240.6 million for winning public auctions (including the .WEB auction), and expended many millions more in privately resolved contention sets. While I understand that ICANN does not have precise information about the sums spent in private resolutions, existing information suggests that the number is substantial. For example, one publicly-traded registry operator has disclosed that it has <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">received over $50 million from losing private auctions</span></b>."(pp.9-10) .... there exists evidence suggesting that an Afilias-operated .WEB is not likely to cause Verisign to reduce its already relatively-low .COM price below the regulated level." (p.12)<br />
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<li><a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/irp-afilias-appendices-a-b-redacted-31may19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Appendices A to B</a></li>
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See also on <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">DomainMondo.com</span></b><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2019/05/news-review-afilias-vs-icann-irp-update.html" rel="" target="_blank">News Review | Afilias vs ICANN, IRP UPDATE re: new gTLD .WEB</a> (May 19, 2019)</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.domainmondo.com/2019/02/update-afilias-domains-no-3-limited-v.html" target="_blank">UPDATE Afilias Domains No. 3 Limited v. ICANN re: new gTLD .WEB</a> (Feb 28, 2019)</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.domainmondo.com/2018/12/news-review-verisign-vrsn-new-gtld-web.html" rel="" target="_blank">News Review | Verisign $VRSN & New gTLD .WEB, Afilias vs ICANN</a> (Dec 9, 2018)</li>
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">b. ICANN EPDP Phase 2</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;"><b>Next </b></span><b><a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/2019-06-20+EPDP-+Phase+2+call+%2307" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EPDP Meeting June 20</a></b> (agenda / docs), <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=GNSO+Temp+Spec+gTLD+RD+EPDP+-+Phase+2&iso=20190620T14&p1=1440" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">14:00 UTC</a> (10am EDT), <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/2019-06-13+EPDP-+Phase+2+call+%236" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">June 13th notes and action items</a>. June 20th meeting observers' <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-June/002145.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">info </a>re: <a href="http://stream.icann.org:8000/stream02" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">audiocast</a> / phone. <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">Links</span></u> to the EPDP meetings' recordings and transcripts (when available) are posted on the <a href="https://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/calendar#jun" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GNSO calendar</a>. <span style="color: #cccccc;">Other EPDP Links</span>: <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wiki</a>, <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mail list</a>, <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/council/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GNSO mail list</a>, <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/b.+Worksheets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">worksheets</a>, <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/c.+Working+definitions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">definitions</a>. CPH comments on Purposes <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/attachments/20190618/61b9e2d9/CPHCommentsonPurposesTemplate-0001.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> (pdf).</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: cyan;"><b>UPDATE </b>EPDP Meeting #7 20 June 2019:</span><b style="color: #cccccc;"> </b></span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wn0zxlnvldeKLkicDZ09ZVKNq6lmNOH1/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chat transcript</a>; <a href="https://icann.zoom.us/recording/play/Gb3eIUtcJMma4sZwD81n16HQ9ir90l6UQQ1c2rTXQ5mv2WulbuAHAysDMGFYvFQK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Audio Recording</a>; <a href="https://icann.zoom.us/recording/play/HTYaMZs9M8-gfcAHHwSVkzxtZri7IgKb8Q68uj9RL-UImZr8c4rGY72QxrRAJwgR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Zoom Recording</b></a>.
<span style="color: orange;">Does EPDP Phase 2 need a course correction?</span><b style="color: #cccccc;"> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">See </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V1fQkuzU2BYTnOZ7ovM7urTdvDppM_CB/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">excerpt</a><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span>below<span style="color: #cccccc;"> from Zoom June 20 transcript:</span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">See also </span><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/attachments/20190620/b732fef6/MarbytoDrazek-Karklins18Jun19-0001.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ICANN CEO June 18, 2019, Letter</a> (pdf)<span style="color: #cccccc;"> re: "</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Planned ICANN org Communications to European Data Protection Board Regarding the </span><span style="color: #cccccc;">Expedited Policy Development Process."</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">June 13th EPDP</span></b> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vWdNQLhAPeMg0AX_6gmig0wv6EYMT94d/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chat transcript</a> (pdf) also gives the <i>gist</i> of what's going on:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">From the EPDP public mail list:</span></b><br />
"... I wanted to offer a thought that I hope will not be received as negative. A lot of the work that our group is doing cannot only be characterized as the community’s policy work, but it is in fact ICANN’s (org)<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> compliance</span></b>. Looking at the cost of becoming compliant, the easiest way to save money is to use synergies. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">We have asked in the past whether ICANN has written a record of processing activities, carried out DPIAs, asked for legal advice on related aspects <i>etc. </i></span></b>To my knowledge, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">we have <u>not</u> been provided with any such documentation</span></b>. To be clear, it <u>would be extremely helpful</u> for our group to be able to <u>review existing documents</u>. Even though if our group might hold different views on certain questions, any <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">existing work products would expedite our work</span></b>. Maybe there are documents in the making, in which case we could build our workplan around potential delivery dates to be able to benefit from such work products. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">If there is actually no documentation already</span></b>, <u><span style="color: #cccccc;">it would be good to get clarity around that</span></u>, too, and we could try to work so that duplicate efforts of the org and our group can be avoided, <i>i.e. </i>so that the org can benefit best from the legal advice we are seeking. Either way, when looking at where the money shall come from, I think it would be fair <u>not</u> to consider expenditures as the community’s policy making only, but as part of ICANN’s overall compliance activities. I hope this helps."--<a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-June/002136.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Rickert</a> (ISPCP) (emphasis added).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">UPDATE:</span></b> <a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-June/002140.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Response from ICANN Org</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">What's ahead?</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;">EPDP meetings </span>will be at <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">ICANN65 </span></b>in Marrakech, Morocco, <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/2019-06-25+-+ICANN65+Marrakech+-+EPDP+on+the+Temporary+Specification+for+gTLD+Registration+Data+-+Phase+2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">June 25</a> and <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/2019-06-27+-+ICANN65+Marrakech+-+EPDP+on+the+Temporary+Specification+for+gTLD+Registration+Data+-+Phase+2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">June 27</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Also note</u>:</span><br />
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<li>EPDP subgroup meeting on potential OCTO [ICANN Office of Chief Technology Officer] Purpose Feasibility of unique contacts to have a uniform anonymized email address, is scheduled on Monday, <a href="https://community.icann.org/display/EOTSFGRD/2019-06-17+EPDP-+Phase+2+-+Work+on+Priority+2+Worksheets++%233" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">17 June at 13:00 UTC</a> for 90 minutes. </li>
<li><a href="https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-epdp-team/2019-June/002090.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EPDP Team input</a> in response to GNSO Council's request re ICANN Board <u>not</u> approving two Phase 1 recommendations. </li>
<li>12 June 2019 <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/drazek-to-chalaby-12jun19-en.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Letter from GNSO Chair Keith Drazek to ICANN Board Chair Cherine Chalaby</a> re: Resource Support for Expedited Policy Development Process (EPDP) Phase 2.</li>
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<u style="color: #cccccc;">Related</u><span style="color: #cccccc;">:</span><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Privacy Fix:</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Search and Destroy</span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Old Email Accounts</span></b>--an unused email address can be a backdoor to your entire digital life--<a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/privacy-fix-search-and-destroy-old-email-accounts/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">consumerreports.org</a>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Afnic</span></b> enhances and simplifies the handling of <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">identity theft complaints</span></b>--since 2017, Afnic has registered 102 complaints for identity theft by individuals when registering a domain name under the<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> .fr</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">ccTLD</span>.--<a href="https://www.afnic.fr/en/about-afnic/news/general-news/11480/show/afnic-enhances-and-simplifies-the-handling-of-identity-theft-complaints.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">afnic.fr</a>.</li>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>3)</b> </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Names, Domains & Trademarks</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">a. Trademarkia</span></b>'s <a href="https://norcalrecord.com/stories/512538162-trademarkia-cleared-to-continue-infringement-complaint-against-legalzoom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">trademark infringement complaint against</a> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">LegalZoom: </span></b>LegalForce Inc., d/b/a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Trademarkia.com</span></b>, alleges LegalZoom bought the domain name <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>LegalZoomTrademarkia.com</b></span> in 2012 and from 2014 to 2018 used it to direct people to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">LegalZoom.com</span></b>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">b. </span></b>Use of figurative signs and words that evoke a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">geographical area</span></b> which is associated with a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">protected designation of origin</span></b> may constitute an <u>unlawful</u> evocation of the latter. This was the CJEU’s conclusion in its <a href="http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=F1DB5CFCA6C7496C35D91B06912A64AE?text=&docid=213589&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=1022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">judgment of 2 May 2019</a> concerning a legal dispute about the protected designation of origin for Manchego cheese (C-614/17)--<a href="https://www.limegreenipnews.com/2019/05/cjeu-on-products-evoking-a-designation-of-origin-don-quixote-only-rides-the-plains-of-la-mancha/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">limegreenipnews.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">c. Kaddish.com:</span></b> not long after Nathan Englander’s latest novel<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b>"<b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kaddish-com-novel-Nathan-Englander/dp/1524732753" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kaddish.com</a></b>" was published in March, someone actually developed the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">domain name</span></b> <a href="https://www.kaddish.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kaddish.com</a> offering mourners the same services as described in Englander’s book, and the author, reportedly <a href="https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2019/05/31/features/a-site-to-order-kaddish-for-your-loved-ones-takes-a-page-from-nathan-englanders-latest-book/11619.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thrilled</a>, said, "<i>The concrete joy of dreaming something up and as soon as it goes into the world, seeing someone actualize it, was purely joyous to me.”</i> Turns out that the person behind the website <u>kaddish.com</u>, is a 65-year-old Orthodox lawyer from New Jersey, who said <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">he registered the domain name 22 years ago</span></b> after his father passed away, but it wasn’t until he read Englander’s “terrific” book, that he decided to develop and launch the website. Read <a href="https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2019/05/31/features/a-site-to-order-kaddish-for-your-loved-ones-takes-a-page-from-nathan-englanders-latest-book/11619.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">more here</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2019/06/cisco-live-2019-cyberattacks-emerge-against-internet-itself" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cisco Live 2019</a>: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Cyberattacks Emerge Against the Internet Itself</span></b>--threat intel group Talos discovered a Domain Name System attack ("Sea Turtle") that its director calls ‘incredibly concerning.’<br />
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"<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://www.profgalloway.com/facebook-inc-new-employee-manual" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopath</b>, and <b>Facebook</b> has institutionalized <b>sociopathy</b></a></span>" says NYU's <span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Scott Galloway. </b><u>See also</u></span> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Facebook is the 'biggest fraud in history' </span></b>says Aaron Greenspan who studied at Harvard University with Mark Zuckerberg, in an <a href="https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-7119567/Facebook-biggest-fraud-history-Zuckerbergs-Harvard-peer-reckons-shares-HALVE.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">interview with UK MPs</a> over spread of fake news, basing his claims on his theory that Facebook has <u>billions</u> of <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">fake accounts</span></b>. See also: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Facebook</span></b> Settles Class Action re: <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Inflated Video Viewership Metrics</span></b>--ad agencies' lawsuit claimed <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/facebook-settles-class-action-claiming-company-inflated-video-viewership-metrics-1218059" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook misstated video metrics by 150-900%</a>.<br />
<i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><u><br /></u></span></i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Clock</span></b> <i><span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>runs down</u></span></i> for passage of any (<span style="color: #cccccc;">U.S.</span>)<span style="color: #cccccc;"> <b>federal privacy legislation</b> </span>this year--<a href="https://www.axios.com/clock-runs-down-for-privacy-legislation-ae5a08c3-8ed6-4b84-a531-bbf8a0a138c5.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">axios.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">What Is a DNS Leak?</span></b> A DNS Leak can compromise your online privacy and security. How to Check, Test & Fix? See this <a href="https://blokt.com/guides/dns-leak" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">comprehensive guide</a> which explains what DNS leaks are, what causes them, and how to prevent or fix them. Also: <a href="http://ipleak.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ipleak.net</a>.<br />
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<i>Tech Review (TR 2019-06-15)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech investing news: </i><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Features • </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1)</span></b> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Entrepreneurs' Top Tips for Startups Raising Money,</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 2)</span> <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Google and Facebook vs. Journalism & Democracy</span></b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">,</span> <b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">3)</span></b> <span style="color: #cccccc;">Investing: </span><span style="color: lime;"><b>The Week</b></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> & Investor Notes: </span><b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Why Trump Will Win The Trade Wars</span><span style="color: #cccccc;">,</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">4)</span> </b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">ICYMI Tech News:</span> <b><span style="color: orange;">Huawei</span></b>, <span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>AT&T, Verizon, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Salesforce,</b> <i>and more.</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">1)</span> </b><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>Entrepreneurs' Top Tips for Startups Raising Money</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Facebook </span></b>and<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Google control 60%</span></b> of the <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">online ad market</span></b>, and why that's bad for journalism and democracy, according to this CNN Business video published Jun 7, 2019.<br />
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<b><span style="color: lime;">The Week: </span></b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ+Composite" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ Composite</a> <span style="color: lime;"><b>+0.7%</b></span> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=sp500" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">S&P 500 Index</a><b> <span style="color: lime;">+0.5%</span></b> | <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Dow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DJIA</a> <span style="color: lime;"><b>+0.4%</b> </span><i> <b><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">*</span></b>The major indexes are still showing strong gains for June — the Dow is up 5.1% and the S&P 500 is up 4.9%. </i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Investor Notes: </span></b><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Why Trump Will Win The Trade Wars</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>US: </b></span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/u-s-stocks-still-look-better-than-anywhere-else" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>U.S. Stocks Still Look Better Than Anywhere Else</b> | bloomberg.com</a>--"while American outperformance continues to defy history, the rest of the world remains trapped in a bear market."<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>• </b><u>Editor's note</u>: </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Why Trump Will Win The Trade Wars: US exports</span></b> make up <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">only 12% </span></b>of the<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">US economy</a>, of which nearly <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>a </u></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>third</u> </span>go to <span style="color: #cccccc;">Canada </span>and<span style="color: #cccccc;"> Mexico</span>, with which Trump has already made trade deals (<a href="https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USMCA</a>). In addition, many of the most valuable US exports are 'must-have' items such as Qualcomm chips. In short, Trump is playing with a much stronger hand (and he knows it), than China or Germany, the world's two largest exporters, both of<i> </i>which are heavy net exporters to the U.S., and upon which their economies are more dependent.<i> </i>Trump doesn't need to<i> bluff, '</i>everyone in the game' knows he is holding the better hand (unless they are <u>delusional</u> or in a <u>state of denial</u>). <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">China</span></b> may still be trying to adjust to the <u>culture shock</u> of Trump's 'negotiating style' but the 'cold hard truth' is <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-11/why-china-is-likely-to-lose-technology-cold-war-with-u-s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China’s Likely to Lose a Tech Cold War--bloomberg.com</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Germany, </span></b>the world's second largest exporter, and dominant member of the EU, is actually a more complicated situation than China, with <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Brexit</span></b> still an "uncertainty"--see <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-12/pound-tumbles-after-parliament-rejects-move-block-no-deal-brexit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UK Parliament Rejects Move To Block No-Deal Brexit</a>--but if I were advising <b><a href="https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/profile/country/deu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Germany</a></b>, I would be worried. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Germany</span></b> will likely have to adjust to a new <i><span style="color: #cccccc;">level playing field</span></i> with the U.S. in trade, something long <u>overdue</u>, and which Germany has <u>never</u> had to face in the post-World War II era (now going on for almost seventy-five years), during which the U.S. generated big trade deficits with Germany as one way to stabilize and strengthen Europe to counter the Soviet Union. See <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-13/germans-scratch-their-heads-on-how-to-make-trump-back-off" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Germany Struggles to Figure Out How to Get Trump to Back Off--bloomberg.com</a>.<br />
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"If <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">President Trump</span></b> has a <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">poker style</span></b> it is almost certainly <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">loose aggressive</span></b>. It is the most challenging style to play well and the most difficult to play against. It is very hard to read a loose aggressive player, to know what they might do next. Such players are constantly taking the initiative, dominating the game. They are predictable only in their unpredictability. Sometimes they go down in flames but usually it is the loose aggressive players that win the money. Loose aggressive stands against tight weak. President Carter would probably play tight weak as would [UK Prime Minister] Mrs. May, although it is hard to imagine either at a poker table."--<a href="https://spectator.us/donald-trump-playing-poker/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arthur Goodhart</a> </blockquote>
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<b style="color: #cccccc;">• </b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">U.S. Mobility:</span></b> <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-09/why-some-americans-wont-move-even-higher-salary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">38 percent of US respondents</a> say they are<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> mobile </span></b>with the<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> resources, ability, and inclination to make a move.</span></b> In fact, 5 percent of respondents say there is a 100 percent chance of their moving. The <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">mobile</span></b> are most likely to live in cities, though the income and educational background of "the mobile" and "the rooted" are similar.<br />
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<b style="color: #cccccc;">• </b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Borrowing costs </span></b>are now <u>lower</u> <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-05/us-economys-dirty-big-secret" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">than at any time since the founding of the US Federal Reserve</a> in 1913 (or in the UK, since the Bank of England was established in 1694).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">EU:</span></b> <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Foreign investment into Europe falls for first time in 7 years</span></b>--<a href="https://youtu.be/T4MQED0jt5c" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CNBC International video</a> interview of Andy Baldwin, EMEIA managing partner at EY, discusses the management consultancy's <a href="https://www.ey.com/en_gl/attractiveness/19/how-can-europe-raise-its-game-ey-european-attractiveness-survey-2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2019 European Attractiveness report</a>: "appetite to invest in Europe" has dropped to a seven-year low.<br />
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<b style="color: #cccccc;">• </b><a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4268154-financial-stability-lack-thereof-drives-eurozone-agenda" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Financial Stability, Or Lack Thereof, Drives The Eurozone Agenda | SeekingAlpha.com</a>.</div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>• IMF to warn Italy's debt poses major risk to </b></span><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/eurozone-italy-debt-imf/imf-to-warn-italys-debt-poses-major-risk-to-euro-zone-economy-source-idUSB5N20U017" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">euro zone economy</a></b>. <u>See also</u>:<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b> </b></span><a href="https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/brace-for-impact-italy-poised-to-launch-euro-parallel-currency-jfYIUXnEmUe-yeo0-uVZrg/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Italy Poised to Launch Euro Parallel Currency | moneymaven.io</a>.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">• </span></b><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">European banks? </span></b>"They are burdened with an overbanked market, aging systems, a lack of resources to digitise and re-invent their services, and there are still <u>no</u> signs of any European banks emerging as cross border champions. European banking union is another EU initiative that seems to have<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> drowned in the sea of bureaucracy that sinks everything</span></b>. Governments still see their duty as protecting national banking champions. There is <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">repeated regulatory failure</span></b>; Danske Bank in terms of money laundering and the collapse of Spanish and Italian banks doesn’t help. No European banks are expanding, building market share. Instead they are all, and have been, retrenching. If I could think of something positive to say about Europe ... But I really can’t"--<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><a href="https://morningporridge.com/the-morning-porridge/f/blains-morning-porridge---june-4th-2019---european-banks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bill Blain</a> </b></span>Jun 4, 2019.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Hong Kong:</span></b> after seven hours of marching, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-extradition-march/hong-kong-plunged-into-political-crisis-after-huge-protest-against-extradition-law-idUSKCN1TA05L" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">organizers estimated 1,030,000 people</a> took part in the protest opposing the proposed China extradition law.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">January 2019:</span></b> the<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> US Justice Department unseals </span><span style="color: orange;">Huawei indictments</span></b> including 23 counts (<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1124996/download" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1125021/download" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>) pertaining to the alleged <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">theft of intellectual property, obstruction of justice,</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">fraud </span></b>related to its alleged evasion of US sanctions against Iran.</blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">June 2019: </span></b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=dead+man+walking+meaning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Dead Man Walking'<b> Huawei</b></a>,<b><span style="color: orange;"> </span></b>applies to <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Huawei+has+applied+to+trademark+its+%E2%80%9CHongmeng%22" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">trademark its “Hongmeng”</a> operating system (OS) in at least nine countries and Europe, deploying a back-up plan in key markets as U.S. sanctions threaten its business model. However, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-chip-catchup-analysis/china-chip-industry-insiders-voice-caution-on-catch-up-efforts-idUSKCN1TE1R4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">China's industry insiders</a> are less optimistic that Chinese chip makers can quickly meet the challenge of supplying all the needs of Huawei and other domestic technology firms. Prospectuses of Chinese chip companies preparing to list on a new tech-focused stock exchange in China are <u>even more blunt</u>, characterizing China's domestic chip industry as “relatively backward,” lacking in talent, and requiring “a long time to catch up.”<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b><br />
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<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-suppliers-factbox/factbox-global-tech-companies-shun-huawei-after-u-s-ban-idUSKCN1TC1KW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Global tech companies shun Huawei after U.S. ban</b>--reuters.com</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/06/11/ian-bremmer-not-sure-huawei-survives-trump-ban.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer: </a><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">'Not sure Huawei survives Trump ban.'</span></b></li>
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<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Huawei</span></b> indefinitely postpones the announcement of a new Windows laptop, originally scheduled for June, 2019, due to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/12/huawei-scraps-laptop-launch-because-of-us-blacklisting.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ongoing US trade sanctions</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-11/google-is-quickening-a-shift-of-hardware-production-from-china" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Google</b> Is Moving More Hardware Production Out of China</a>--Trump’s tariffs push tech giant to boost Taiwan manufacturing, while companies, both foreign and domestic, increasingly seek to pivot production away from China due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to reset the parameters for global trade and manufacturing. <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Foxconn </span></b>says it can assemble <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Apple iPhones</span></b> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-apple-iphone-foxconn-china-20190611-story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">outside China</a>.</li>
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<li><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Huawei v. United States:</span></b> <a href="https://www.worldtrademarkreview.com/brand-management/why-us-v-huawei-ip-technology-dispute-one-trademark-professionals-follow" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">why trademark professionals must follow this IP technology dispute</a>.</li>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-weight: bold;">AT&T: </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dish Network Corp</span></b> is <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Dish+Network+Corp+is+open+to+merging+its+satellite+television+business+with+AT%26T" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">open to merging its satellite television business</a> with <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">AT&T</span></b> Inc.’s pay TV service, <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">DirecTV</span></b>, since <span style="color: #cccccc;">both </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Dish</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">DirecTV</span></b> are <span style="color: orange;">hemorrhaging subscribers</span> as viewers continue to shift to cheaper online streaming services such as <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Netflix Inc </span></b>and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon.com</span></b> Inc.’s Prime video service. Unfortunately, AT&T's problems don't end there as <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4269727-t-another-merger-disaster-making" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AT&T appears to have <b>no viable plan</b></a> for its WarnerMedia streaming service a year after the Time Warner merger closed.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Verizon:</span></b> <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4269587-verizon-7-reasons-turn-bearish" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">7 Reasons To Turn Bearish</a>--upcoming <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Wi-Fi 6 </span></b>and Wi-Fi 7 technology may disrupt the wireless mobile industry by making free or low-cost <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">city-wide Wi-Fi</span></b> a reality.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon</span></b> is <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4269824-amazon-betting-big-satellite-internet?ifp=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Betting Big On Satellite Internet</a>. <span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>See also</u>: </span><b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon</span></b> is offering <a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4267251-amazon-makes-big-splash-travel-industry" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">flight booking</a> on its platform in<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> India</span></b>, and it wants to build a one-stop app to offer customers a wide range of services which will attract users to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Amazon Pay</span></b> in the crowded digital wallet industry.<br />
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<a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4268043-6-billion-record-fine-melt-apples-earnings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A $6 Billion Record Fine</a> may be coming next year against <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Apple</span></b>--see <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Spotify</span></b>'s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/13/spotify-files-a-complaint-against-apple-with-the-european-commission-over-apple-tax-and-restrictive-rules/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">complaint</a> against Apple filed with the European Commission--<a href="https://www.timetoplayfair.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">timetoplayfair.com</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://seekingalpha.com/article/4269639-microsoft-sell?ifp=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why Sell <b>Microsoft</b></a>--new tax law ramifications .. cloud computing has no moat ... Windows 10 has continuing quality and performance issues [<span style="color: #cccccc;"><u>Editor's note</u>: </span>most people would be better off to forget about Win10 and just get a <a href="https://www.google.com/chromebook/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chromebook</a>] ... Microsoft behind in artificial intelligence (AI).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Salesforce: </span></b><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3A+CRM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">$CRM</a><b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></b><a href="https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/06/10/1560170708000/Salesforce-Tableau--cloud-cuckoo-consolidation/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">all-stock deal</a> valued at $15.7B, for data visualization company <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Tableau</span></b> (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3A+DATA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYSE: DATA</a>).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Instagram</span></b>, a fashionista favorite, helped unknown labels find an audience but now "big bucks are changing the game" as <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-luxury-marketing-analysis/hey-big-spender-how-luxury-brands-are-raising-the-stakes-on-instagram-idUSKCN1T81QO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cash rich luxury goods groups</a> such as <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">LVMH</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Kering</span></b> use increased social media budgets to <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">drown out rivals on platforms</span></b> once seen as a leveler for brands big and small.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">IPO: </span></b>Pet care company<b><span style="color: #cccccc;"> Chewy Inc.</span></b> (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3A+CHWY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYSE: CHWY</a>) (domain: <a href="https://www.chewy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chewy.com</a>), closed up 59% at $34.99 after its debut IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, June 14.<br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><b>A Bad Use of Technology:</b> </span>"<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Illegal robocalls </span></b>are <u>not</u> just a drain on individual households' peace of mind, they are also a drain on our economy," FCC Chief Economist Babette Boliek and Chief Technology Officer Eric Burger <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2019/06/05/beating-back-unwanted-robocalls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wrote in a blog post</a>, before the FCC voted unanimously to let carriers block robocalls by default.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Personal Tech: Google</span></b>’s Login Chief Would Rather You <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662594/google-login-apple-sso-account-security-passwords-mark-risher" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Use <b>Apple</b>’s Sign-In Button</a> Than Keep Using Passwords--<i>‘I honestly do think this technology will be better for the internet.’</i><br />
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Israel-based freelancer marketplace <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">Fiverr International</span></b> ( <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NYSE%3A+FVRR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NYSE: FVRR</a> ) <b><span style="color: #cccccc;">IPO</span></b> raised $100 million at a market cap of $635 million. The company grew sales by 45% in 2018 to $83 million, but with a -27% operating loss. The company's stock began public trading on June 13, 2019, on the New York Stock Exchange, closing with a 90% gain in price per share:<br />
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CrowdStrike, Inc. is a U.S.-based cybersecurity technology company, with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, and a wholly owned subsidiary of CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. The company provides endpoint security, threat intelligence, and incident response services to customers in more than 170 countries. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform protects customers against cyberattacks on endpoints on or off the network by offering visibility and protection across the enterprise.<br />
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<li>Founded: 2011</li>
<li>Parent organization: CrowdStrike</li>
<li>CTO: Dmitri Alperovitch</li>
<li>Founders: George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, Gregg Marston</li>
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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ%3A+CRWD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NASDAQ: CRWD</a>), announced June 11, 2019, the pricing of its initial public offering of 18,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $34.00 per share. CrowdStrike granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 2,700,000 additional shares of Class A common stock at the initial public offering price less underwriting discounts and commissions. The shares began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, June 12, 2019, under the symbol "CRWD." The offering is expected to close on June 14, 2019, subject to customary closing conditions.<br />
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