Recent Comments

• Jan Horak: Will be renamed from British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritian Indian Ocean Territory and it will
• David Conrad: True, although if IO gets transferred to Mauritius, I'd imagine there might be some changes in how .
• Thomas Ment: Many countries have separate country codes and tlds for separate areas, UK, US, France, Netherlands,
• Rubens Kuhl: Yeah, the ccTLD for Comoros, right ?
• Kevin Murphy: I think that was just a name change rather than a change of sovereignty.
• Mark Thorpe: Unfortunately .WS lives on!
• Mark Thorpe: Let the drama begin! Keep Calm and Buy .Com
• Braden Pollock: Western Samoa also disappeared when they became just Samoa but .ws lives on.
• Rob Golding: CreatorSEO have a much better graphic for it at https://creatorseo.com/why-your-domain-name-is-impo
• avri: > are perhaps more surprising, given the registries are run by a former ICANN director. Do yo
• Reallybigidea.com: This is insane. I still don't accept this tld as io or co. Very high renewal fees. Ai is not good
• Rubens Kuhl: And if .br deducts the USD 92k from the FY25 contribution due to the RSP program, it might only pay
• Kevin Murphy: I prefer "web extension".
• Matthias Pfeifer: You guys and ICANN are all wrong: This is obviously an "internet address".
• Reallybigidea.com: Thanks Gosh they aren't calling it URL. Dear Google, Domains aren't URLs "Search or type URL"
• Rubens Kuhl: My guess is exactly that. 20c for registrar fee and 30c for registry transaction fee is a likely out
• Frank Michlick: The slide still doesn't really answer the question. It shows a hostname (www.icann.org) but doesn't
• ICANN Insider: Will never pass. Soon to be rejected
• Kevin Murphy: It's weird that NTIA hasn't said anything yet. Even weirder that Verisign hasn't said anything.
• Krish: Isn’t Verisign’s pricing still dependent on meeting between DOC and Verisign ?
• Kevin Murphy: Maybe they'll do both.
• Andrew: Couldn't they just increase the 18 cent "tax" rather than the per domain fee? Or is it restricted ho
• Web-designs.net: I was a big fun of new gs in 2016-2019 sold many. But.Now I want to say they are sucks . New gtld
• Josh: May the best applicant win. ICANN will frown upon alt root providers trying to secure gTLDs no doubt
• Rubens Kuhl: Even USD 225k does not encompass the same costs as 2012 round. When you add the 92k RSP fee, the app
• Kevin Murphy: Thanks. II've corrected iit.
• Owen: The separation of the two Mercks actually occurred when the US entered WWI (and not WWII).
• Rubens Kuhl: Correction: .sas was a post-application JV formed to settle the contention. So this case wouldn't be
• Kevin Murphy: I disagree on your first point. When there are 45,000 registered domains but only 7,000 in the zone
• Helmuts: My bet would be that most are real domain registrations by x companies and webmasters. A very strong
• Rubens Kuhl: JVs were and will be allowed pre-application as well, like what did .sas (JV between software compan
• Kevin Murphy: In this case it seems the JV was formed years ago and the gTLD has not yet been delegated.
• Elaine Pruis: JV's are only prohibited during the application evaluation process. ROs will be free to make busines
• Steve GOBIN: Congratulations to Bruce! He had an excellent reputation as a board member of ICANN, whereas AUDA h
• John Berryhill: With the ban on forming joint ventures, this sort of resolution of an intractable conflict will not
• Kevin Murphy: Based on my incomplete research, I think .xxx makes more money from registrations than it does from
• Helmuts: hmm.. this is an interesting thought.. yes, it would be interesting to see these numbers.
• John Berryhill: I failed to note that if the idea is that one can switch to the "second choice" on the condition tha
• John Berryhill: "The Board views the ability to submit an alternate string at the time of application as a path to
• John Berryhill: "How difficult is it to choose friendly, tolerant and peaceful countries?" It is apparently becom
• John Berryhill: It would still be interesting to know whether, on balance, .xxx generates more revenue from domain r
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well, this wouldn't solve the problem which string a applicant prefer - this doesn't prevent the com
• Jovenet Consulting: I find this is genius from the ICANN text : "Ability to submit alternate strings: Applicants should
• Helmuts: ICANN meetings should not be organized in such countries. Period. How difficult is it to choose frie
• Andrew: Also another place women probably won't feel welcome
• Richard Funden: I am much more worried about their stance on freedom from religion: "It is a criminal offense to â€
• Rubens Kuhl: Not really. The 5% per month root zone increase quickly adds up to much more than 500 per year, so t
• Phil Buckingham: Intriguing .... . Academic Really . Simple maths. So the max delegation rate into the Root Zone pe
• Rubens Kuhl: While ICANN requires standardized WHOIS URLs such as whois.nic.mobi, there was nothing preventing wh
• Rubens Kuhl: That draft text doesn't comply the SubPro report and doesn't comply with board adoption of that reco