Recent Comments

• PJ: Bro. Are you an activist for actual universities ? Wrote this from a pure bias pov. Dude was smar
• Kevin Murphy: Careful now.
• Andy Brier: Thank you for the giggle inducing references to Father Ted and the IT crowd, the Graham Lineham mast
• TK: Madness
• Snoopy: He paid $460,000 for the picture. Probably a big mistake to double down on this stuff.
• Girish: So who won the TSP backend infra project development for IN Registry?
• Anthony Mitchell: Mao wanted to abolish character scripts and shift to a Romanized system for writting Chinese. He jus
• Rubens Kuhl: While I don't know the specifics, most registrars are very wary of low-volume and/or rule-heavy gTLD
• Josh: So, the first step in rebuilding a brand and establishing trust and transparency is to falsely accus
• Amadeu Abril i Abril: Goood to see .post moving forward. But the question is: how is it possible that they have accepted o
• shop.wwwbrand.com: XXXURL.com - BIN $25 on Epik. Previously owned by Mike Mann
• Jovenet Consulting: Finally, we're getting there...
• Rubens Kuhl: Web3 is like AOL content back in the days, you either have the software or you can't get to it. Look
• John Berryhill: "Pretty outlandish stuff, based on some pretty flimsy arguments." He's been pursuing this idiotic
• Matthias Pfeifer: Page, there IS already a market. The job you (and the others) will probably have to do is to inclu
• A Domain Registrar: Oh fan-bloody-tastic. Yet another opportunity for string confusion, phishing and excuse to sell a wh
• Matthias Pfeifer: You are right Rubens, but what Barret said: "We don’t know the answers yet.." And I am prett
• page howe: so i realize this is a rarely held, and much criticized opinion.. but being able to start a Web3
• Andrew: Interesting to note that IONOS seems not to be selling Registry Services LLC (Godaddy Registry) new
• Rubens Kuhl: If someone had a business plan including a TLD launch, and it ends up in contention, there shouldn't
• Avri Doria: Given that every new rule, no matter how draconian, creates new opportunities for those who skirt ru
• Jovenet Consulting: Did I read "against Russia"? 😂
• Kevin Murphy: I was mistaken. There aren't any. I think I might have found collisions.
• Tom Barrett: What are the included Handshake TLDs?
• Kevin Murphy: Would it really be new precedent? Doesn't ICANN always bend over backwards to get pre-2012 RAs conve
• Rubens Kuhl: With IFFOR gone, my odds of receiving owed money from Kieren McCarthy are also gone.
• Rubens Kuhl: Do you mean like .sucks, clearly inspired by .xxx ?
• John Berryhill: The interesting question is that, in view of the longstanding and multiple breaches of the registry
• Rubens Kuhl: Not all ccTLDs publish zone files, which monitoring systems usually process.
• John McGarr: These blocking services are a little far-fetched. Let's look at it logically. Data shows threat acto
• Matthias Pfeifer: WTH would one use a not-working framework on DNS Abuse? Hypocrits..
• Rob Golding: There remain no functional 'consumer protections on domains, which is especially clear with the ongo
• Simon: You might also be interested in the following FOI request: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request
• Symon Andrade: One of the problems with new gTLDs is the instability and frequent price changes, which in my opinio
• R. Funden: In memory of an old SNL sketch: clownpenisdotf.art, anyone?
• Thor: This is not a protocol error. For a more non-sensational article, read ISC's post about it, at https
• Rubens Kuhl: This was just to show that a draw may involve no-cost tickets. Registration with CA authorities is t
• Kevin Murphy: Perhaps ICANN's lawyers are being cautious. If you pay $250,000 and get a "free" ticket, how free is
• Rubens Kuhl: From the same reference: "Registration is not required if all tickets for a drawing are free, solic
• Kevin Murphy: From https://oag.ca.gov/charities/raffles A raffle is a type of lottery in which prizes
• Observer: It is amazing how such a small team can consistently spawn thoughtleading products.
• Rubens Kuhl: While the draw was bound to come back, the ticket purchasing system doesn't have to, and might chang
• tom barrett: These same outcomes are coming to "immutable" web3 naming services and resolvers.
• Helmuts: Well said, Rubens! -- It is simple, for a UK company to signal local presence: they need to be
• Rubens Kuhl: While Russia is formally in the list, securing OFAC license for providing applicant support is going
• Kevin Murphy: To be clear, we're talking about small businesses based in these countries. Not their governments.
• R. Funden: Why is ICANN sponsoring benefits for an aggressor country like Russia? This is out of line!
• Rubens Kuhl: It's only application fee. If approved, at least USD 25k in ICANN fees would go down the drain, with
• wwwbrand.com: Hi, Great news. What's renewal fee? $40K is it one-time fee or per year?
• Elisa Cooper: Really? We are 12+ years since the launch of new gTLDs. Wouldn’t any valuable names have long been