Author: Kieren McCarthy (most popular articles)

Kieren McCarthy is an acknowledged authority on the Internet and Internet governance. He has written extensively about both for a wide range of national and international newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Sunday Times, New Scientist, The Register, PC Week, Techworld, and others.

An engineer by training, Kieren has spent more than 10 years as an IT journalist and has, at some point interviewed, just about everybody in the Internet industry. The official blogger for both the inaugural Internet Governance Forum and an OECD conference on the Participative Web, and author of the book Sex.com, he was also ICANN’s General Manager of Public Participation, tasked with coordinating communication between the organization and Internet users for three years.

He is CEO of .Nxt. Inc, and created both the company and the conference to provide a space for positive information-sharing about the future of the Internet's infrastructure.

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25 June 2011
USG ‘tough love’ policy toward ICANN revealed

The United States government’s policy of “tough love” toward domain name overseer ICANN has been revealed in an extraordinary transcript of a private meeting between Assistant Commerce Secretary Larry
Column
14 March 2012
Why Beckstrom's got a point, even if it's for the wrong reasons

No one can accuse Rod Beckstrom of not speaking his mind. Although ICANN would probably be much happier if he didn't.

Adding to the long list of "what's he done now?" moments, the organization's outgoing CEO choose the opening ceremony of the ICANN Costa Rica to tackle the issue of conflicts within ICANN at the highest level.

As Board members winced and community members rolled their eyes, he used the last five minutes of his speech to repeatedly attack his own Board, as well as ICANN's Nominating Committee (NomCom) - which chooses eight of the Board's 21 members.
Story
28 June 2011
Governments tested on their new Internet principles

A government conference that intends to produce a groundbreaking set of Internet principles is already being tested on those very rules, thanks to an argument over intellectual property.
Story
8 December 2010
New Internet extension rules to be finalised at 2011 Board-government meeting

ICANN is likely to delay final approval of rules for new Internet extensions until a special meeting of its Board and Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) is held in early 2011.
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21 October 2011
US government puts IANA contract out for open bidding

The United States government will put out the IANA functions contract for competitive bidding at the start of next month.