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Registry Governance
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Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Orange Business Services SA's Hosting and CDN Boundary: What Its DSA Report Reveals About Operational Control
Orange Business Services SA's transparency report draws a useful line between hosting and caching responsibilities, internet-access reporting, and registry identity, showing why operational control must be verified service by service rather than inferred from a shared corporate…

Europe and Middle East National Telecom
2 Swisscom Broadcast Ltd’s Bantiger Site: Why the FM-to-DAB+ Shift Is an Operational Continuity Handoff
Switzerland’s FM transition is easy to compress into a date and a replacement technology. The evidence around Bantiger calls for a more careful reading. Broadcaster timing differs, the named site carries several functions, and the available records answer different questions…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Spark New Zealand's 3G Shutdown: Why Device Compatibility Became a Telecom Continuity Gate
Spark says its 3G network shut down on 31 March 2026. The practical consequence is not that every device automatically moved to a newer network, but that compatibility became a condition of continued use. Bands, voice support, antennas, modules, SIMs and testing now sit between a…

Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Chorus and New Zealand's Copper Exit: What Fibre Safeguards Reveal About Telecom Continuity
The important question in a copper-to-fibre transition is not whether fibre is newer. It is whether a working replacement is available to the person who is about to lose an existing service. New Zealand's safeguards make that distinction operational: copper withdrawal depends on…

Global Cloud Services
DE-CIX Barcelona: How a Multi-Site Internet Exchange Supports Route Continuity
For a business that depends on online services, “route continuity” is the ability to keep useful network paths available when a component, connection, or policy stops working as expected. It is tempting to treat a multi-site exchange as a finished resilience product. That…

Africa Institutional
ZARC 2025 DNS incident made .za registry resolution continuity an accountability test
In March 2025, a DNS disruption around .ZA commercial second-level domains showed why registry continuity is not a back-office detail. DNS is the internet lookup system that turns a domain name into reachable network directions. When that lookup layer degrades, users can see a…

Africa National Telecom Trends
Helios Towers raises 2026 guidance again
Helios Towers raised its tenancy, earnings, and cash-flow forecasts after record first-half additions across Africa and the Middle East.

Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
EE launches 8Gbps fibre in Guildford and Woking
EE has begun selling 2.3Gbps and 8Gbps broadband over Openreach’s XGS-PON network in selected Surrey postcodes.

CASE FILE
After the Failed CPE: How DotMusic Reached the .MUSIC Root
A failed community-priority score did not end DotMusic Limited’s application, and a later delegation did not erase that failure. The route from 10 points in 2016 to a live top-level domain in 2021 ran through separate institutions, separate legal instruments and separate…

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Who Could Challenge EBU’s .RADIO—and Who Could Enforce Its Rules
EBU’s community-priority victory did not itself award an operating right, and the losing applicants’ access to ICANN accountability procedures did not entitle them to a fresh evaluation. The history of .RADIO is instead a sequence of distinct institutional gates: an outsourced…

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The .SHOP Clock: Bidder Exit, a $41.5 Million Price and Control of ICANN’s Proceeds
The price attached to .SHOP was produced by a public rulebook and a largely private sequence of bidder instructions. That distinction matters. Nine applications were listed in the contention set, but deposits were submitted for only seven, creating seven eligible bidders in…

CASE FILE
Who Decides Who Is a CPA Online? AICPA's Failed Community Bid, the Contract Without Specification 12, and the .CPA Appeal Chain
A failed community-priority application, a later non-sponsored registry contract and a registry-specific eligibility appeal now sit in the same institutional history. Reading them as one continuous grant of authority obscures the central governance question: which instrument lets…

CASE FILE
The Domain ICANN Did Not Order: .PHARMACY’s 2018 Contract Cure
A Public Interest Commitment Dispute Resolution Procedure standing panel found that the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy had not transparently applied its published eligibility rules to one rejected applicant. ICANN then issued a breach notice and later recorded the…

CASE FILE
Why Booking.com’s .HOTELS Contended with .HOTEIS but Not .HOTEL
Two decision processes within ICANN’s new-gTLD programme could compare similar-looking top-level-domain strings and produce opposite-looking outcomes because they were not answering the same procedural question. Booking.com’s route to .HOTELS shows how a visual screen…

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When Territorial Coexistence Met a Single Root: Merck KGaA, .MERCK and the Limits of ICANN Review
For decades, private agreements divided use of the Merck name by territory. ICANN’s root could not. The .MERCK record shows how contractual history could enter objections and accountability proceedings without giving any one forum power to partition a globally unique label, award…

CASE FILE
Verified, Bundled, Released: How .NGO/.ONG Turned NGO Eligibility into Registry Enforcement
Behind .NGO and .ONG’s verification promise was a contractual machine: a name could be created before documentary review finished; linked commands once moved matching labels across two top-level domains; and different failures could lead to lock, hold, termination, deletion or…

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When Wine-Origin Claims Reached the Root: .WINE, .VIN and the Contract Path to Identity Digital
The argument over .WINE and .VIN did not ask ICANN to decide who could lawfully use names such as Champagne, Rioja or Bordeaux. It asked whether a global naming contract could carry protections for wine-origin claims before international and national law had produced a single…

CASE FILE
Who Could Stop Site Finder? VeriSign’s Wildcard and the Birth of Registry-Service Preclearance
When VeriSign changed the answers returned by the authoritative .COM and .NET servers in September 2003, the registry operator controlled the technical switch. ICANN did not itself edit the zones: it could demand rollback, invoke the contracts and threaten enforcement. Technical…

CASE FILE
Registry.Africa and the Remedy Gap: Why DCA’s IRP Victory Did Not Reverse the .AFRICA Delegation Chain
DotConnectAfrica secured a consequential finding that ICANN had mishandled its `.AFRICA` application, but the ruling neither transferred the string nor erased the rival operator’s contract. The result becomes intelligible only when the dispute is followed across the separate…

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Emergency Custody, Not Ownership: The .WED Failure and ICANN’s EBERO Chain
The .WED case is not chiefly a story about a failed registry. It is a test of how contractual emergency powers, escrowed records, root-zone changes and a temporary operator can preserve a top-level domain without deciding who may hold its permanent registry role next. The record…
