Recent Comments

• Jeffry Stoud: I believe this increase along with the offloading of responsibility of man in the middle attacks wil
• John Berryhill: This is beautiful: "a decade of inflation alone would lead to a 28% price increase to $237,000"
• Rick Lane: So it is not just WHOIS that has gone dark, but all of ICANN org...
• Rubens Kuhl: It's curious that while ODAs carry the message from Org that the community shouldn't make decisions,
• Bret Fausett: This is not unusual in the legal field. From Facebook's own page for law enforcement: "Cost Reim
• Rubens Kuhl: Setting prices for a registry or registrar service would be a direct violation of the picket fence,
• Stephane Penaceque: Indeed, great to have you back Kevin. Your insights were truly missed over the last weeks !
• Jim Prendergast: Great wrap up Kevin. And wonderful to have you back. Best on your continued recovery.
• Paul Anthony Webb: Welcome back! StoppableDomains is incredibly litigious and has VC backing in the hundreds of mill
• Benedict Addis: @Theo perhaps the quantity of LEA requests indicates that the lookup system might not be best sited
• Volker Greimann: So these "Unstoppable Domains" sound very stoppable to me. Anytime the manager of such an extension
• John McCormac: There were two major problems with the ODP. The first was that the data quality of the registry repo
• A Registrar: It's almost like in order for this to work on a global scale, you do actually need someone centrally
• Kevin Murphy: Sorry Tom. I've corrected the article with the correct domain.
• tom barrett: The correct article reference should be https://altroots.com/stats/ And yes, the count for .COIN
• Kevin Murphy: That could be quite a useful superpower.
• Kieren McCarthy: Re: withered away. That may have been my fault. I put in a proposal to develop and run a proper ope
• Kevin Murphy: Yeah, I was accidentally conflating and confusing two different things. I meant of course the Inform
• David Conrad: I thought the Open Data Initiative (Platform?) basically withered away. I'm honestly surprised to he
• Snooty Fehootie: It's unfortunate that Mr. White didn't notice any of this until he left. Otherwise, he could have b
• Rubens Kuhl: To keep this trend, ICANN will be appointing a Chief Truth Officer, mirrored on the success of the M
• Kevin Murphy: This is part of a wider trend of ICANN wasting money putting more and more data behind registration-
• Pea: Perhaps ICANN has been directed to keep a low profile by big-bucks VeriSign, to whom they inexplicab
• Michael Palage: Brad, Thanks for this thoughtful article. Your participation in the ICANN community is sorely mi
• Andrew Allemann: One of the biggest disservices ICANN has done to journalists is getting rid of the MyICANN daily ema
• James: I was part of the ICANN communications team for nearly a decade, and had the distinct pleasure of in
• Rubens Kuhl: Considering the tightly focused uncontroversial amendments for RDAP currently under public comment t
• Kevin Murphy: Why, James?
• James Bladel: For clarification, GoDaddy abstained from voting for a NED candidate in the most recent election.
• Rubens Kuhl: Even modern Linux is not using eth anymore, is using ens. But for my generation, eth is Ethernet and
• Jim Davies: IFFOR hasn't published any AGM minutes since 2018 and no updates on its website in about a year. It
• Kurt Pritz: This is great news. Kieren has worked tirelessly for increased transparency and accountability of al
• Rubens Kuhl: Yay! Nominet budget is going to pay money owed by Kieren and I will finally collect!
• María: Great to have an expert and representative from LAC region in the GAC!
• Theo Geurts: The amount of LEA requests could be an indicator that LEAs have a capacity problem when it comes to
• Kevin Murphy: Genius. Genuinely brilliant idea. Will never happen of course, but nice one anyway.
• Paul Anthony Webb: I agree with you, this is pretty cool. I was prepared for them to be just another boring rebranded a
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well Rubens, there are also other operating systems than Linux...
• Steve GOBIN: How to hit a bird with 2 stones: ISO could give .su to South Sudan so that this country wouldn't hav
• Rubens Kuhl: But is it .com, .net or both ? .net has been in decline for years and new gTLDs has only made it wor
• Rubens Kuhl: For me eth can only mean an Ethernet interface, like eth0, eth1...
• Adam: I wasn't clear on the first example made either. Is there a link to the presentation? Because ICANN
• QC to KC: In the words of the Pointer Sisters: No way to control it - It's totally automatic...
• Paul Anthony Webb: Incredible
• Leo: It's automatic. See: https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/chair-of-the-bar-death-queen-elizabeth.h
• John Berryhill: So, do all of the QC's automatically become KC's or do they have to reapply to His Nibs (not to ment
• Carl: There are more NED with ties to the top20 than not, so anything which leads to be a better represent
• Scott: ICANN has a cash reserve of $500 million? For what does it need that much of an endowment? And a $12
• Kevin Murphy: The staffing costs for development are broken down as $1.68 million for seven full-time equivalents
• Paul Anthony Webb: ...maybe I'm in the wrong business. There can't possibly be that much staff for that $2.7m price tag