Graeme Bunton

Organization:	Tucows
Affiliation:	GNSO
Region:	North America
Country:	Canada
Email:	gbunton[at]tucows.com
Website:	http://www.graeme.online
LinkedIn:	Graeme Bunton
Twitter:	@graemebunton
Currently a member of ICANN's GNSO Currently a member of ICANN's RrSG Has attended 10+ ICANN Meetings Featured in the ICANN 52 - Singapore playing card deck

Graeme Bunton is the Director of the DNS Abuse Institute. Before that, he was an Information Specialist at Tucows beginning in February 2011, where he worked in business intelligence, analytics, and reporting. He was also a Senior Web Presence Consultant at nModel Solutions Inc in Toronto. Bunton was an original member of Citizen Lab, a Toronto-based digital rights think tank.

ICANN

Graeme is involved with ICANN through the Registrar Stakeholder Group and has been involved with IRTP-D since ICANN 46 in Beijing. In May 2013, he said the following about the GAC's safeguard during the ICANN New gTLD Board Committee's request for comment: "The GAC is proposing restrictions upon the new gTLDs which have not been imposed on their own ccTLDs." He serves as Vice Chair of the group's Executive Committee (Excom) since October 2015; the term is set to expire in 2016. According to ICANN, "The Vice-Chair assumes leadership of the Registrar Stakeholder Group in the absence of the Chairman; monitors and reports on technical issues related to the domain name system; reports on activities of interest and importance to the Registrar Stakeholder Group."

Resources

• Graeme Bunton SOI at ICANN
• Graeme Bunton's author archive at Tucows
• 3-U.S. says inaction on online piracy risks public safety (March 5, 2015), Reuters
• US Trade Office Wants ICANN and Governments To Help Stamp Out Online Counterfeit Goods by David Goldstein (March 6, 2015), Domain Pulse
• Help save domain privacy by Graeme Bunton (June 30, 2015), OpenSRS

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).