ICANN concluded its week-long meeting in Nairobi on Friday 12 March
with a number of notable and controversial decisions. The board meeting,
the traditional final happening at its meetings held three times per
year around the world, voted to defer a decision on the .XXX Top Level
Domain and to scrap the Expressions of Interest Proposal for new generic
TLD applicants. However they did vote to create a Trademark
Clearinghouse and Uniform Rapid Suspension System to protect trademark
holder's rights in new gTLDs. But the decisions from the ICANN board
were given a poor mark by Milton Mueller writing on the Internet
Governance blog.