Recent Comments

• Rubens Kuhl: The 26 are waiting to clear either background check or payment. Payments were due 45dd, so if an app
• John McCabe: This is great news as it shows how fairer pricing and collaboration can bring positive change and be
• Crews Gore: “ We see value in certain categories of applications such as for geo-TLDs and for internationalize
• R.Funden: "I'll take 'Things that'll never happen' for 500, Alex!"
• Avri Doria: The importance of GAC advice is only defined in Bylaws. I expect the Board will find a way around t
• Dan: This seems like one of those things which sounds easy, but just causes more work and still won't sol
• Steve: Maybe they could operate .com for $2.08 per name if it was put out to bid too (8% of $26)? Might sav
• Steve Gobin: While I agree that some registrars don't do enough to address DNS abuses (fortunately, they are a ve
• carlb: What the heck is going on with .mu? Apparently existing two- and three-letter .mu domains are app
• Tony Kim: Speaking from the point of a long time registrar owner and operator, adding some protective measures
• Volker Greimann: Before we can have a PDP on bulk regs, we need to see some conclusive evidence that bulk regs actual
• Kevin Murphy: True, but normal GAC advice is still treated very preferentially by the ICANN board. It's less uncom
• Jeff Neuman: There are some significant changes to the GAC’s control over new gTLDs from the last round. Most
• Antony Van Couvering: “Sadly, no doubt some applicants will be the kind of chancers who want to make their millions sell
• Russian Troll: The Japanese IDNs were dead on arrival: Japanese language uses a different character for dot, its ac
• Christopher Ambler: I can bet I know what will be the most-requested .you name :-)
• Nigel Roberts: Well, good to see Ofcom catching up. Since 2023 the .GG (and .JE) TLDs have had an explicit con
• Symon: They should sell domains for around $9 or $1 per year, with no discounts, promotional prices or expe
• William Yang: I'm not an expert in the Chagosian or Mauritian national identities... but I'm predicting they keep
• Rubens Kuhl: Actually, .shop promotions are infesting the zone with low quality content.
• Rubens Kuhl: In general, not all premiums have premium renewals. So the decision is similar to buying in the seco
• Domainer: Please think better before registering premium ones..
• emojimyface: Wow, .shop domain names are flying off the shelves! Seems like everyone wants to get their business
• dollgenerator: Wow, $41.5 million for .shop! That's insane! GMO must really think this Doll Generator idea has mass
• how old do i look: Nova going for 200 new gTLDs? That's insane! Imagine all those new domain names!
• Cheryl R Langdon-Orr: So why then, now, stay as a US Corporation?
• Rubens Kuhl: Executive team or outside counsel. Look https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_Day for Trump references
• ex staffer: Who is the MAGAT in the Executive team that called for this change ?
• JP: Kissing A$$ for an international organization? Maybe their responsibilities should be moved to an or
• avri doria: Perhaps as a US corporation they must bend a knee. The point of the yet unaddressed Transition
• MF: Looks more like budget cuts rather than fully motivated by changes to in corporate policies. This bl
• kiwiclicker: sounds like Facebook's Meta is calling out ICANN! Kinda funny to see them complain about bureaucracy
• facesymmetrytest: Wow, ICANN ditching diversity and inclusion? That's a bummer. Makes you wonder if it's just cosmetic
• hypackel: Wow, 200 new gTLDs?! That's a lot of domains. Sounds like Nova Registry is making a big splash!
• V Greimann: Shame! Bloody kneelers! Apparently people no longer are born with spines!
• Graeme: That LimpBizkit link was worse than being rickrolled.
• Kevin Murphy: Thanks Ray. Are you talking to ICANN about changing your contract to get rid of the PIC that says y
• Ray Fassett: Any short list of TLD competitors should include .com. About .med NDC domains (or more appropriat
• Rubens Kuhl: The wind-down of the drug-code.med domains was captured by DNSSEC monitoring tools, as can be seen i
• Kevin Murphy: Cookies? I have no idea.
• Ozzie: The whole is more than the sum of the parts (Aristotle), while the meetings look slick, one of those
• Patrice Défago: A question arises concerning multilingual or multi-country sites. How will they handle this?
• Kevin Murphy: I think she was referring to the organizational skills of the meetings team. I agree with her, the m
• Ozzie: ....Praised organisational skills!.!.?.?. That's a big dose of WTF. Over budget, Sacked 10% of the s
• Ozzie: The rumour mill was very active pre-election with pressures in the Democrat administration where the
• Premiums: Sorry it was a sarcastic comment
• Kevin Murphy: Why do you say that?
• Premiums: Hi, I think it should be $1m
• Rubens Kuhl: Hundred grand is not enough for a truth.social post from Trump. Perhaps a splash page at jdvance.com
• Blogbuster: That's huge!