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ICANN Board Member Quits

Kieren McCarthy writes on The Register:

A director of internet-overseeing organisation ICANN has resigned from the Board, claiming he will be able to do more working from the outside.

Michael Palage was due to stay on the Board until June 2008 but decided to quit because he says he was unable to participate effectively thanks to conflicts of interest. A key member of ICANN since its inception, Palage is an IP lawyer and IT consultant and has represented a number of internet registrars since 1998. He currently acts as a consultant to big-player Afilias.

His advisory role for companies caused him to abstain on the controversial Board vote over the dotcom registry. And it has also seen he receive a number of threatening letters from right-wing Christians in the United States over the proposed .xxx domain because he had advised the company behind it in its original bid several years earlier.

posted by Fergie @ 4/06/2006 06:38:00 AM