As first announced by ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom himself via twitter and then confirmed by a press release by ICANN (PDF), Beckstrom will step down at the end of his 3 year contract at the end June 2012. In the note on Twitter, Beckstrom wrote: I have decided to wrap up my service at ICANN [...]
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Rod Beckstrom To Leave ICANN After End of Term
CEO to step down at end of three year tenure. ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom will step down at the end of his three year term, the non-profit announced this afternoon. He has been at the helm of the company since July 2009 and will finish his three year contract at the end of [...]
Rod Beckstrom To Leave ICANN After End of Term
CEO to step down at end of three year tenure. ICANN President and CEO Rod Beckstrom will step down at the end of his three year term, the non-profit announced this afternoon. He has been at the helm of the company since July 2009 and will finish his three year contract at the end of [...]
Sorry Beckstrom, You Should Have Voted on .XXX
ICANN CEO’s abstention from .xxx vote is weak. During ICANN’s meeting in San Francisco last month a number of board members gave their rationale for or against .xxx. Some members abstained and stated their reason. So it was a little odd when ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom didn’t vote. He whispered something away from the microphone [...]
The Costs of a Dysfunctional Relationship – Part 1
“The current Board-GAC relationship is dysfunctional and has been so for several years.”1 Never has this line from the ATRT Report seemed so apt as now, when the ICANN board and the GAC are preparing to meet in Brussels. Part 1 of this blog will descri…
Good is Better than Perfect in ICANN Accountability
Source:CircleID: Domain Names
In the next few months, ICANN will have a concrete opportunity to improve its accountability and transparency by enacting the recommendations of the Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT). Those recommendations may not be perfect, but if th…
Red Tape Set to Snuff Out Online Identity of Wales
Wales, a small Celtic country that has proudly withstood the depredations of Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and tourists, which has given the world everything from an enduring mythology to the world’s longest single-world domain name, has been informed that th…
