[article] ICANN pays to push Whois case to European Court of Justice

[Ayden Férdeline]

An excellent article, as always, in The Register on the state of WHOIS:

ICANN pays to push Whois case to European Court of Justice

Just has to lose GDPR rulings in other courts first

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/15/icann_whois_gdpr/

"... what on earth is ICANN doing? And why is it spending millions of dollars pursuing flawed legal challenge after flawed legal challenge? The answer is simple: the organization has more money than sense.

On top of paying senior executives double-digit pay raises every year since, the organization also expanded every aspect of its work. Controversially, it gave millions of dollars to a slew of former top US government officials, including former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine Albright, and former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, during the process to grant it autonomy from the US government – and then attempted to hide that expenditure from its own constituencies.

... All of which is to say that ICANN has a huge amount of cash on hand that it has been spending unwisely and with little or no accountability. It decides what it wants to do, publishes a report saying so, and then votes to do exactly what it proposed several months later having run through the pretense of a public comment period."
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