Publications and Papers by Milton Mueller

Scarcity in IP addresses: IPv4 Address Transfer Markets and the Regional Internet Address Registries. The Internet Governance Project. July 2008

"Info-Communism? Ownership and freedom in the digital economy." First Monday, April 2008. Access paper here.

"Democratizing Global Communication? Global Civil Society and the Campaign for Communication Rights in the Information Society." with Brenden Kuerbis and Christiane Page. International Journal of Communication. Vol. 1 (2007). Download paper here.

Reinventing Media Activism: Public Interest Advocacy in the Making of U.S. Communication- Information Policy, 1960-2002

July 2004. A 91-page monograph on the role of U.S. citizens groups in shaping communication and information policy. Research funded by the Ford Foundation’s Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program. The web site includes two freely downloadable spreadsheets containing: 1) comprehensive data on 35 years of U.S. Congressional testimony on communication and information policy issues and 2) organizational ecology data on public interest advocacy groups that existed from 1962 to 2002. Link to Project website.

The Post-Com Internet: A Five-Step Process for Top-Level Domain Additions

March 2003-October 2003. With Lee McKnight. The policy analysis that smashed through the FUD surrounding Internet top-level domain additions. Download.

Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace. MIT Press, 2002.

A study in technologically-induced institutional innovation at the international level. The book uses property rights economics to analyze the domain name wars and the formation of a global governance regime that leverages the technical bottleneck of the Domain Name System root to exert centralized control over Internet users and the domain name registration industry.

Review of Ruling the Root by Salon.com / Ordering information. / Outline of book / Sample: Global Rights to Names (Chapter 11)

Success by Default: A New Profile of Domain Name Trademark Disputes under ICANN's UDRP

June 2002. The most comprehensive statistical report on the nature and effects of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Download

The Economics of ENUM over Cable Broadband Access Networks

June, 2002. Co-authored with Junseok Hwang. Cost study of private ENUM implementation. Download

Dancing the Quango: ICANN as International Regulatory Regime.

February, 2002. Paper presented at the Johns Hopkins SAIS/George Mason University on Technology and Global Governance, February 11-12, 2002. Download

Goverments and Country Names: ICANN's Transformation into an Intergovernmental Regime.

January 2002. Paper presented at PTC 2002 Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. Download.

Competing DNS Roots: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?

October 2001. Paper presented at TPRC 2001, Alexandria Virginia. Download.

Rough Justice: A Statistical Assessment of the UDRP

November 2000. Statistical proof that "forum shopping" creates a pro-complainant bias in ICANN's UDRP. Download

Digital Convergence and its Consequences

June 1999. How the takeover of media by digital technologies affects market structure of media industries. Download