The following is a guest post by Mason Cole of i2Coalition member company Donuts. The Internet governance debate is devouring headlines, and has been for months as governments seek to expand their roles—for various reasons—in overseeing the domain name system (DNS). This culminated in the NetMundial meeting in Brazil in April, where Internet leaders and […]
Access To Data, Privacy, US Policy
ECPA, Electronic Communications Privacy Act
Reforming the outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is one of our top policy priorities. The i2Coalition and allies in our industry and in Washington have worked for continuous change. Fortunately, we are now one step closer to needed reform. The Yoder-Polis Email Privacy Act, legislation currently in play to update the antiquated law, recently […]
The Internet Infrastructure Industry
HostingCon kicks off today and runs through June 18 in Miami Beach! The i2Coalition is excited for the activities that we have planned. Like last year, we have organized the “Issues and Trends” panels for tomorrow Tuesday, June 17. Our panels will focus on “Piracy, Porn & Privacy: Why Best Practices Work” and “The U.S. […]
Member Spotlight, The Internet Infrastructure Industry
Hostwinds, LLC., a web hosting company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is staffed by a group of individuals who daily fuel their commitment to generate the highest level of service and support in the industry. Hostwinds is a motivated and driven team that strives to remain ahead of the competition by living the promise to Provide […]
EU Policy, Open Internet, US Policy
The following is commentary by i2Coalition Chairman Christian Dawson and originally appeared on Site5 Blog. My name is Christian Dawson and in addition to heading up operations at a web hosting company myself, I am Chairman and co-founder of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, or i2Coalition. My friends at Site5 asked me to guest blog for […]
Patent Reform, US Policy
Senate
The i2Coalition is deeply disappointed that patent reform legislation has been removed from the Senate Judiciary Committee agenda. Patent trolls are a real and increasingly growing problem for innovators in the United States, costing companies $29 billion in resources and revenue in 2011 alone. The lack of action by the Senate will only embolden trolls […]
Access To Data, Internet Governance, Privacy, US Policy
DOTCOM Act, IANA, IANA Transition, ICANN, National Security Agency, NSA
The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s vote to recommend the DOTCOM Act to the full House for approval has the potential of slowing the transition of the IANA function to the global multistakeholder community. The i2Coalition believes that this transition, if given the opportunity to be handled properly by the multistakeholder community unencumbered by U.S. […]
The following is a guest post from Tenko Nikolov, CEO of SiteGround. I remember back in 2011 when the anti-SOPA campaign was in full swing. I feared that the web companies were the only ones standing against this threat of unseen censorship over the internet usage, that we had no chance against much older and more […]
Internet Governance, The Internet Infrastructure Industry
ICANN
Today, the i2Coalition announced the appointment of Blacknight Internet Solutions CEO Michele Neylon to the coalition’s board.
The following is commentary by Kevin Johnson, Channel Manager for The SSL Store™, about becoming a member of the i2Coalition. The SSL Store™ is the largest provider of SSL certificates in the world and the first Web Security Specialist Partner of Symantec. We take the utmost pride in offering SSL certificates and other web security solutions […]
