Comments on: Chehade: “Honestly, if it was up to me, I would delay the whole release of new gTLDs by at least a year…”

By: No You Can'T

No You Can'T — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:31:43 +0000

That boat full of pork is going to sink and he doesn’t want to be on it when it does, but alas, he will need to go down the with sinking .ship

By: Rubens Kuhl

Rubens Kuhl — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:05:57 +0000

I’m not impressed with some of the new people he brought in, specially in the new gTLD arena. Will see if he can get the team, either inherited or new, do a better job, but for now the job is not getting done.

By: zack

zack — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:11:08 +0000

Sure…honesty is great for Chehade…even if it is at the expense of the management team he inherited…including his buddy Akram. Now, he will come across as being the honest savior of a flailing organization.

I’ll give him this…he his much better at taking credit for himselft than the ever so blunt (i.e., in your face) Bob Reckstr….uhhh…Rod Beckstrom.

By: Gideon Rop

Gideon Rop — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:09:49 +0000

Wow ! i admire the honesty.

By: Maria Farrell

Maria Farrell — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:51:44 +0000

Hear hear!

By: Ron Andruff

Ron Andruff — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:51:25 +0000

While those bedeviled with investors will push back on it, Fadi is exactly right. Anyone in the ICANN community with a 20 meeting pin or more has to agree with his assessment. If you are still not sure, look again at Fadi’s resume.

Time “to put your hands in the air,”as Fadi asks, or prepare yourself for a debacle created as much from the holes in the ‘Swiss cheese’ new gTLD process is at the moment, as from applicants’ unreasonable desire to move forward even when told that there are no rails to run on just up the track…

By: uhm really

uhm really — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:39:34 +0000

This is really no different than it always has been, and several people at icann, some past employees, have always worked for 7 days a week.

By: KD

KD — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:30:15 +0000

Fadi is a very respectable person and taking some great initiatives recently. It is nice to see such a new face on ICANN and where he is aiming. And now he comes out telling it how it is, not how it should be. Chehade keeps earning my respect…

By: @Domains

@Domains — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:15:39 +0000

It’s ok Fadi, we can wait another year. Keep up the good work and we’ll all meet back here in 2014.

By: Antony Van Couvering

Antony Van Couvering — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:54:32 +0000

I’m pleased he’s saying what he’s thinking and it is not surprising that he feels that way. But work expands to fill the time allotted to it (or in ICANN’s case, beyond the time allotted to it), so if he had another year I have no confidence that the result would be better — just later. Deadlines are very useful, and thank goodness ICANN is finally feeling that they have one.