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Padma Venkataraman
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29 Oct 2017
Blog post
Why Presumption of Renewal is Unsuitable for the Current Registry Market StructureWith the recent and much protested renewal of the .net legacy Top-Level-Domain (TLD), the question of the appropriate method of renewal has again come to the forefront. While this seems relatively uncontroversial to most, Padma …
29 Oct 2017
Blog post
CIS’ Efforts Towards Greater Financial Disclosure by ICANNCIS has been working towards enhancing transparency and accountability at ICANN since 2014. While initial efforts have resulted in ICANN revealing its sources of income in a granular fashion in 2015, we are yet to see this level of …
24 Oct 2017
Blog post
ICANN’s Problems with Accountability and the .WEB ControversyThe Post-Transition IANA promised enhanced transparency and accountability to the global multistakeholder community. The series of events surrounding the .WEB auction earlier this year has stirred up issues relating to the lack of …
13 Jan 2017
Blog post
Comments on the Proposed ICANN Community Anti-Harassment PolicyICANN sought community input on the Proposed ICANN Community Anti-Harassment Policy on 7 November 2016. In response to this the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) submitted its comments.