Wednesday, July 3, 2013

ICANN Board dismisses NCSG reconsideration request on trademark violation



The chairperson of the Non Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Ms Robin Gross has revealed that ICANN board dismissed the group appeal to reconsider request on trademark violation.

Making this disclosure Tuesday evening to DigitalSENSE Business News, NCSG chairperson said that rather than reconsider her group’s Request 13-3, ICANN went on to adopt the Board Governance Committee (BGC’s) revised rationale through the new Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) programme committee.

She assured that NCSG would drag ICANN to independent review panel to seek redress over its request.

“We should file for an Independent Review Panel determination and ask ICANN and/or the arbitrators to waive our costs, which are otherwise prohibitive,” she said, lamenting that there is no accountability within ICANN.

“There is no accountability "within" ICANN, as this situation has demonstrated.  We need to go outside of ICANN to get any constraints on ICANN's lawlessness,” Robin declared.


Remmy Nweke/DigitalSENSE Business News
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