Recent Comments

• BPD Test: Nova is really going big with 200 new gTLDs! That $45.4 million application fee is mind-boggling. It
• Such a Waste: Imagine this : You help a coup against your boss, take the interim position and sit with the board,
• Andrew: The most surprising thing about this post is that .mobi still has 265k registrations. It shows the i
• avri doria: Well that will certainly make me think two or three times before reporting anything. Reports about
• Helmuts: Congratulations to Com Laude!! Huge respect and all the further success! It was already getting a
• Helmuts: .. interesting.. thank you for covering this. H
• Rubens Kuhl: Nomulus own documentation mentions which parts are usable out of the box and which ones require inte
• Gary: The Nomulus git repo is not very well maintained and it will be quite challenging to use this RSP co
• Matthias Pfeifer: I had no problems (days ago) to onboard the well known RAs to .versicherung, which was somewhat spec
• Rubens Kuhl: The only issue with running your own back-end is to get registrars to integrate. The already operati
• RKB-CashproofDomains.com: This is a bold step by Unstoppable. Vertical integration, especially with Nomulus, could set the sta
• Matthias Pfeifer: That step makes absolutely sense. Looking forward to see the opposite arguments (if any).
• avri doria: Involuntary Euthanasia?
• Jovenet Consulting: I am pretty much excited about these two. Am not so sure .HOTEL will be a hit but, powered by Verisi
• Christopher Ambler: You rang?
• Rubens Kuhl: If the choice is between ICANN parties and the pockets of alt-root speculators, then there is no evo
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well, it was some polemic in my post. Most internet users really didn't care who owns a domain or
• Michael: But wouldn’t that transfer control over conflict resolution to the browser publishers, ultimately
• Matthias Pfeifer: The day browser developers will integrate alt-root lookups into their software will change the whole
• Gary: Why have a model in place that has less than 50% acceptance? Would it not be better to engage wit
• Gary: Layoffs at Team Internet have been underway for more than 12 months across their DIS division. Most
• Rubens Kuhl: There is a case an applicant could make if its own RSP only provides services to its ASP application
• Garth Miller: I could be mistaken, but the 75-85% discount applies to the application fee, not the RSP evaluation
• Rubens Kuhl: Things change. Apple, Inc. used to be the party queen of defensive registrations.
• Christa Taylor: I share the concerns being expressed. Having taken part in the SubPro discussions on the Applicant
• Phil B: Hi Kevin, Updates ! I have been a participant/ member of the Sub Pro Applicant Support Progra
• Kevin Murphy: Thanks. I've clarified some of my language.
• Jovenet Consulting: Many didn't ready the Applicant GuideBook in Round 1. At the time, one applicant told us he didn't n
• Rubens Kuhl: The reasons for low uptake were brought forward by many participants, myself included, during PDP, G
• avri doria: re: "The USA and Canada don’t qualify for the ASP." The ASP is not limited by country but by in
• John B Berryhill: Yes, it’s been litigated before.
• James Stevens: they deliberately wanted to create customer confusion & make ppl think they were somehow buying
• James Stevens: I suspect the end result will be that this issue will end up in court. It just seems inevitable, unl
• Kevin Murphy: Some companies with a foot in both camps use an asterisk instead. So *wallet rather than .wallet etc
• Alex: The proper way to run an alternative namespace would have been to choose a different label seperator
• Alex: Running a completely incompatible identifier space that mocks/fakes a well known naming system, and
• John Berryhill: Some of us are old enough to remember the last time we did this. Others of us are old enough to hav
• avri doria: How come? Are all words, and even random strings, somehow reserved for use by ICANN. We have always
• Helmuts: :) It would be funny if Kevin published emails of people leaving comments :D :D Happy weekend to
• Rubens Kuhl: No, it means that expectations need to be realistic. If you played Risk (Hasbro board game) once, yo
• Rubens Kuhl: Public comments at this point in time are just wishful thinking. As for liability, the alt TLDs wher
• avri doria: I have great difficulty understanding how this can be a surprise to any of us.
• Christopher Ambler: They didn’t seem to care about this when I ran .web If they do make this call, you can be prett
• Rob Golding: > eam Internet won with 8%, but GoDaddy bid at 9%. So the difference between the two was of 1% an
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well, in GER/EU (and elsewhere, of course) we have ruled out WHO is allowed to receive personal dat
• Matthias Pfeifer: >Does that mean we stop fighting back Rubens? It >has been cat and mouse since the beginning
• Gary: Does that mean we stop fighting back Rubens? It has been cat and mouse since the beginning - lets no
• Gary: I doubt the historic relationship has much sway in the VSN gTLD off-board decision. This is just abo
• Sara Rego: Actually, Team Internet won with 8%, but GoDaddy bid at 9%. So the difference between the two was o
• Rubens Kuhl: While they are all good measures to take, we shouldn't forget that bad actors will adapt.