Unredacted: ICANN's hidden role in fierce battle over .Africa rights

Domain-name overseer ICANN's pivotal role in a controversial fight over .africa is today revealed in full for the first time. An independent review into the .africa saga, which was two years in the making, concluded that ICANN had broken its own bylaws: the organization had failed to properly investigate claims made by one of …

[Anonymous Coward]

"info provided ... marked as confidential by one of the parties"

At least this is consistent with the rest of ICANN's "investigation": take the party's word for it without any further question.

We'd all like to face such empty "justice", where anything that reveals us as corrupt shits can simply be deemed "confidential" at our own behest. I guess that if my business model includes taking bribes then this would be "commercially confidential" and so forever safe from public scrutiny?

[Ashton Black]

No cheeseburgers.

ICANN haz bribe?

[Anonymous Coward]

What did you expect?

Are you so naïve as to not know that none of these agencies is objective or actually protecting the public? If so then you live in a fantasy world, not reality.

[cs94njw]

It beggars belief that a modern organization is so blatantly corrupt!

What kind of egotist was picked to run ICANN, and who the hell do they think they are!?

[Anonymous Coward]

who the hell do they think they are!?

Sepp Blatter?

[Mark 85]

and who the hell do they think they are!?

Hmm... Congress maybe?

[Will Godfrey]

Poer corrupts

You know the rest

[Will Godfrey]

Bugritt

Power does too. {mutter}{mutter}stupid keyboard{mutter}

[Henry Minute]

Poer Corrupts

Police Officers for Equal Rights corrupts?

Surely not.

[Will Godfrey]

Re: Poer Corrupts

Poorly Organised Error Recovery :(

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Why not a merger?

Simply merge FIFA, ICANN and the Olympics and you can have a single place to pay bribes - avoiding a lot of transaction costs.

[Jamie Jones]

Whenever you see that an article is written by Kieren, you know you are going to get some quality investigative journalism.

[ yeah, yeah, cue the 'brown-nose' comments! ]

[Ashton Black]

Well, it is a very brown nose.