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<div><span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: normal;">All,</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: normal;">I thought this was important enough of an issue to be discussed and I am happy to answer any questions you may have.</span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: normal;">Please see</span><span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: normal;"> </span><a href="https://circleid.com/posts/20211230-icannas-accountability-mechanisms-in-name-only" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 17pt; line-height: normal;">https://circleid.com/posts/20211230-icannas-accountability-mechanisms-in-name-only</span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17pt; line-height: normal;">.</span>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="line-height: normal; font-size: 17pt;">This article covers ICANN’s taking retaliatory action against a company I am involved in for daring to use the Reconsideration
Process. We alleged ICANN’s inaction was a violation of the Bylaws (and you can read about that separately).</span><span style="line-height: 1.5;"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="line-height: normal; font-size: 17pt;">What does ICANN do? It “pauses” its consideration of what it has failed to act on in retaliation against my company thereby compounding
the original issue. In other words, we complained ICANN was moving to slow in our request for the assignment of a TLD Agreement - and that was a violation of the Bylaws. ICANN has responded by stating that it now needs to halt all consideration of the assignment
request because we filed the Reconsideration Action in order to investigate the basis of our claims that it was moving too slow.</span><span style="line-height:1.5"><span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="line-height: normal; font-size: 17pt;">There will be a follow up post on why our initial request for urgent reconsideration was denied. In short, ICANN has taken the
position that:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 17pt;">A). Only ICANN Board Action can be challenged on an Urgent Basis. ICANN staff Action or inaction may not be.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 17pt;">B). And ICANN Board Inaction cannot be challenged where the basis for the “Inaction” is ICANN’s failure to pass a Board Resolution. In other words,
if you are angry at the Board for not passing a resolution, you cannot file an urgent reconsideration request…..why…..because in order to have an urgent Reconsideration Request, there needs to be an actual Board Resolution. Thus, if the board fails to pass
a resolution, by definition, there is no resolution on which to basis the urgent action.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 22.66666603088379px;">This case also covers ICANN’s misguided fight against the blockchain. Although the request to assign .hiphop has nothing to do with the blockchain,
ICANN has decided (wrongfully) that it does.<span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 17pt;">If you want to cover any of this in an open session, I am more than happy to discuss. I believe all of this should be done in the open and if ICANN
Org is not going to be completely open and transparent, then there is no reason we cannot be.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 17pt;">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Jeffrey J. Neuman</div>
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