Competing for the internet : ICANN gate : an analysis and plea for judicial review through arbitration / Flip Petillion, Jan Janssen.

Competing for the internet : ICANN gate : an analysis and plea for judicial review through arbitration / Flip Petillion, Jan Janssen.

Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands : Kluwer Law International, [2017]

©2017.

li, 478 pages ; 25 cm

"[This book studies the] complaints related to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) decisions that have been brought using ICANN's Independent Review Process (IRP). The ICANN, founded in 1998, is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation established to ensure a stable and secure global Internet. As the custodian of the Domain Name System (DNS), one of its key responsibilities is the introduction and promotion of competition in Internet-related markets, an aim which ICANN has tried to achieve through the delegation of generic top-level domains (gTLDs). This book investigates how successful ICANN has been in achieving this goal. Over the years, ICANN has been required to decide on a substantial number of complaints from applicants for gTLDs related to capture, arbitrariness, discrimination, and unwarranted restriction of competition. The authors...take a close look at how ICANN has handled the major issues raised and how ICANN has shaped its own accountability mechanisms. The book also weighs the influence of external accountability on ICANN's decision-making process and considers the implications of third-party decisions (such as IRP decisions) for the ongoing development of the Internet."-- Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

STA

K1569 .P48 2017

English

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