Harold Godwin

How digital archery threatens to become the organization's Battle of Hastings

Harold's demise as captured in the Bayeux Tapestry: is ICANN about to make the same mistake as the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?

Harold Godwin's army was already tired. The same day word arrived that Duke William II had landed on the English coast seeking the throne, the king's men had fought at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

Determined to show he was in charge, Harold raced down to the village of Hastings, ignoring advice to let his men rest and to spend a day gathering reinforcements. Just a few hours later, he was dead, famously struck in the eye by an arrow; an event forever recorded in the Bayeux Tapestry.