Recent Comments

• Dan:

  I was thinking the same thing... ;)... read more

• Rubens Kuhl:

  Streisand effect at its best.... read more

• The gTLD Club:

  It must be a plot against ".com" domainers.... read more

• Snoopy:

  Most of the new tld registrations are borderline fake so who knows what is really going on. Did people really want t... read more

• Quang:

  .IO is different form others. There are so many startup companies using it nowadays.... read more

• Markus Nystrom:

  Old Scratch has been having a great year.... read more

• David J Castello:

  Best domain industry news headline of the year.... read more

• Chris:

  Well, the GDPR would give the data controllers the obligation to give people access to their data, as I understand it. S... read more

• Volker:

  Registrants should go to their registrars directly to check their data. SSAD is for third parties.... read more

• Chris:

  I hope they haven't forgotten to allow domain holders themselves to check their own whois data. Which could be automated... read more

• Volker Greimann:

  If only it were that easy... If that were the only thing on the table, it would have been easy to build and impossible ... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  Provide 0auth tokens to law enforcement. Null leaked tokens. IMO all that's needed.... read more

• Rubens Kuhl:

  In our aftermarket process, average value decreased to half in March but got back to its normal value in April. May and ... read more

• Black Lives Matter:

  What are you talking about you called them out?? There was a whole thread about this on NamePros. They did the right thi... read more

• Michele Neylon:

  Kevin I'd suspect that there's been less money for aftermarket purchases. A lot of the small businesses we've seen re... read more

• NameSilo:

  Hi, This was a simple bug on our end where the domain ended up in our internal pool of domains and was auto changed t... read more

• Andrew Bennett:

  .uk is a ccTLD and doesn’t come under the remit of ICANN Nominet is a member of the CCNSO and has shared letters of u... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  Here's some PROOF incase anyone wants to come call me a liar and question MY intergity or mental capacity. We're deal... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  OHH parklogic sry...sounds the same. Anyways yea, namesilo was dying to see how much $ they could make by promoti... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  Namesilo was doing the exact same thing for some time with breonnataylor.com They zero-click parked it with parkingcr... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  This is the model of the future. Cut you all out. ICANN promotes top down managment. Special privilages. Now they claw b... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  I had invested in a few .cn domains in the past. Pinyin gold-related ones ('Jin') Then one day, sending your ID to th... read more

• Josh Eisenhower:

  I would rather domains go to auction for everybody to bid on than go to a certain few greedy individuals who are making ... read more

• wanker:

  You should add an SSL cert to your site. It's a requirement now for all sites.... read more

• Mark Thorpe:

  I still think .Web could be the next .NET, but not .COM.... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  We're preoccupied looking forward to selling 1,000 more for 10x the value of this, plebs. We don't have time to resol... read more

• Rubens Kuhl:

  With something like 85% share of domains in all TLDs registered by Brazilians, that's an accurate description of .BR aut... read more

• Snoopy:

  This is about Nominet making more money, has nothing to do with users and won't level anything. Nominet will be out ... read more

• Anthony Mitchell:

  Unlike the French or Germans, who can be found venturing out beyond their respective ccTLDs, especially when they find t... read more

• Frank Michlick:

  Nominet actually already profits from the drop catchers aside from the re-registrations. If I remember correctly they cu... read more

• Mark Thorpe:

  There will be no drop-catching market 5-10 years from now.... read more

• Steve:

  A welcome levelling of the playing field for those who wish obtain domain names imo. No doubt some will find a way to ga... read more

• Symon Rhuano:

  Regarding the .app.br extension, it was created based on the opinion of society. According to my comment in your post... read more

• Nick Adams:

  I read the whole reply in the Original Post above. I still not get why on the earth .Internet TLD will benefit anybody -... read more

• Snoopy:

  It's a pity you had to post their turd response. Can I have those 2 minutes of my life back?... read more

• B-R.APP Project:

  Even if the idea of the .internet is a good one, the new gTLDs have not yet managed to win over the public and have not ... read more

• Jean William:

  Seems like no one has, of yet, heard about the .eco Global Environmental Community Priviledged Priority Nightmare?... read more

• Peter M:

  For all of us old dinosaurs (I am early 60s), I would welcome your list for clarity of what I might do wrong if I had wr... read more

• Peter M:

  I've known of hundreds of different .icu domains being used for spamming... perhaps because of the low introductory fee... read more

• fronty:

  I'm looking forward to the next series of "Can't Pay We'll Take It Away" where ICANN heavies turn up at some CEO's door ... read more

• John:

  Neustar touted the 2012 round of nTLDs as "the next big thing." They continued to be consistently - and $ub$tantially -... read more

• John:

  A point of clarification, please. It is mentioned that this is the first "involuntary" termination, and then conclude... read more

• MapleDots:

  So the big question is.... Does everyone who bought a domain with that extension suddenly have no ownership rights or... read more

• Steve GOBIN:

  Having been part of ICANN staff between 2008 and 2013, I can confirm that, I never heard of any discrimination based on ... read more

• domains:

  expected to pay between 10k or 20k to renew a portfolio of 10k domains. The price changed overnight and cost now 100k to... read more

• Reviewu:

  Their abuse mitigation is ridiculous and needs reviewing by ICANN. GoDaddy are surely ranked at the top for not addressi... read more

• John:

  Peace out is nice, but as an observation, revolution is more likely to deliver a meaningful piece of the pie. When ... read more

• Staff 3:

  See below good Samaritan John set you straight. ... read more

• Another Staff:

  Thanks John, you hit it on the nail. No ill for ICANN and don't know what's the deal with this Rob guy, probably a wolf ... read more

• Rob:

  Thats not his job. He is the General Counsel of ICANN, and as such as a duty to the Corporation. The Board decide... read more

• Rubens Kuhl:

  Customer is the one who pays you. The ones that don't, are just freeloaders.... read more

• Green Jobs:

  Lame! ... read more

• steve brady:

  IT Engineer's whose resume listed "Adobe PDF" under SKILLS with a "Proven Track Record" got fired.... read more

• Rubens Kuhl:

  PDR is mostly a wholesale registrar, so it's likely they moved to one of their many resellers.... read more

• John:

  Not simple, simplistic. Passing the butter does not make ICANN "the hand that feeds" anyone. While they're at it, the B... read more

• stats:

  GRS / PWC has now lost over 95% of their customers...... read more

• Vika Mpisane:

  I'm happy to see Andrew Mack in there. He certainly looks the part:-)... read more

• Vika Mpisane:

  The dotAfrica stuff was some experience of course! Jokes aside, I suppose if Göran is on a prevention is better than cur... read more

• Rob:

  Dear John, “It is always so wonderful when people bite the hand that feeds them.” Simple. When an employee write... read more

• Rob:

  How is it an act of executives self bonusing themselves ? The Board of Directors gave the executives the bonus. The... read more

• Lifesavings.online:

  domainers are crazy for corona. ... read more

• John:

  Hey “Asshole” You write that, “It is always so wonderful when people bite the hand that feeds them.” Excuse me? ... read more

• John:

  Hey "Asshole" You write that, "It is always so wonderful when people bite the hand that feeds them." Excuse me? H... read more

• Rob:

  Hey "Staff" It is always so wonderful when people bite the hand that feeds them. You are clearly a junior staffe... read more

• xt:

  This is what you write about for a gTLD? What the hell is wrong with you?... read more

• Staff 3:

  This act of some executives self bonusing themselves while leaving the others in the org high and dry just broke the tru... read more

• Another Staff:

  ICANN now has many disappointed and angry staff.... read more

• Also Staff:

  Also staff. Can confirm the above. ICANN stopped employee merit increases due to “economic uncertainty.” Also froze hiri... read more

• Rubens Kuhl:

  The appearance of JJ pulling all the strings is probably the work of CEO and other senior executives, not his. Why takin... read more

• Giselle:

  When this pandemic will finish these domains will be unusable.... read more

• Rob:

  I want to comment on some of your statements, as some of them made me laugh out loud. "John Jeffrey seems to be the m... read more

• Staff 2:

  Goran: "The negative economic impacts around the world are undeniable, and ICANN is not immune to the economic impacts o... read more

• Staff:

  What is really missing from this article is that ICANN staff were told that there will be no raises this year because of... read more

• Mogreen:

  reading this I am not sure if you are more upset on the scale of the pay increase or that these particular people are st... read more

• kd:

  John Jeffrey seems to be the most powerful of all. Especially with his salary. He seems to pull all the strings at ICA... read more