Recent Comments

• Dan: The problem is, I don't see how they'll get that with any of the proposals I've seen so far? All
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well, maybe this could open a "diplomatic" way to engage with this concept. We could expect - soo
• Volker Greimann: Frankly, ICANN advising governments how to regulate their ccTLDs is an outrage and reminiscent of th
• John McCabe: In the event that it was unclear in my previous Comment, I was NOT advocating for the use of blockc
• John McCabe: Verisign's RSEP may provide a paradigm not only for other registrars seeking to comply with such reg
• Rubens Kuhl: What I believe people want from an ICANN-operated ticketing system is non-repudiation. I understand
• Dan: They kinda already do... The WHOIS has fields for this. "Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@xxx
• Rubens Kuhl: Besides being the registry for .be, DNS Belgium also operates .brussels and .vlaanderen. It's more l
• Alex R: They might as well just create an email list with abuse email adresses of registrars at this point.
• Rob Golding: >The cost of storage decreases every year, as well as the cost to manage services The cost of
• John McCabe: It’s bad enough when the peasants are storming the fortress, but when national governments do, thi
• James Gannon: From looking into it, they don't even want to run this as a blockchain system, just something more a
• Rubens Kuhl: Take permissionless out of the description and everything works fine. Including using reasonable amo
• Andrei Dumitriu: The web3isgoinggreat.com cracked me up and made my day. Thanks Gavin 😂
• Gavin Brown: ICANN will not approve an application for a TLD that does not implement all five critical registry s
• Rubens Kuhl: Competition is not fragmentation. Fragmentation would be McDonald's and Burger King requiring cars o
• Rubens Kuhl: Not a typo at all, Tom. It's a shot in the foot for all Internet applications when fragmentation occ
• tom barrett: Just had to fix Rubens typo... "decreases the value of ICANN-based domains for all its global use
• Kevin Murphy: Thank you.
• Richard Wein: Dear all, Malaysia removes all travel restriction from 1. August, see https://www.malaysia.travel/t
• Paul Anthony Webb: StoppableDomains are for wallet addresses, they don't resolve to websites. However, your point is va
• Paul Anthony Webb: Users who care about blockchain domains will figure out how to use them. Otherwise, most people will
• Marc Trachtenberg: It was only a matter of time. More will follow.
• D.W.: The deal was brokered by Domainer.com and GoDaddy, according to an Escrow.com press release. Must
• Leo: Out of region registrations wasn't what I was getting at. Not everyone registers domain names. So, i
• Michael Anthony Castello: The locomotive (Nokia) should always pull the caboose (.com)
• Kevin Murphy: Yeah, but you're probably not going to register a .lat name if you were born and raised in Estonia.
• Kevin Murphy: Guessing that's a Car Guy reference, but it went way over my head! :)
• Kevin Murphy: But we know what Verisign's margins are. The company reports them. They keep going up. We know for a
• Michael Anthony Castello: It didn’t make any sense to put the locomotive behind the caboose.
• Leo: Latin America's population is about 600 million people. Is that what you mean by the total addressab
• Truth: PS: and to further state the obvious that shouldn't even need to be said (and they obviously don't
• Truth: Sick people just love having power and imposing control over others.
• Truth: You couldn't be any more wrong than to support this.
• Truth: That is just so wrong and reprehensible. Things can and do go wrong with it. And of course they
• Michael Palage: Smart move by Verisign especially considering the Supply Chain security requirements contained in Ar
• Rubens Kuhl: Personnel is a significant cost line for contracted parties, which is only rising (and not even line
• Paul Anthony Webb: The cost of storage decreases every year, as well as the cost to manage services. If anything, manag
• Paul Anthony Webb: That's quite a wordy TLD, two long words combined? I'm surprised it even got created.
• Truth: Sorry (yes this time) - did make one mistake there. Only verified at the 99.9% level, not 99.99%. ;
• Truth: Here's the truth: 1. People like this and "crackdowns" cause harm and even death to sex workers.
• Gavin Brown: I can confirm that no domains will be deleted or suspended due to the withdrawal of these IDN tables
• A man called Futz ...: My story, made into a film in 1969, told the tale of a young farmer who has had many bad experiences
• Truth: PS: i.e., for .US domains.
• Truth: There is no legitimate reason why legitimate parties should not be able to access private whois data
• Paul Anthony Webb: > Marby gets paid more than the secretary-general of the United Nations and the CEO of the Americ
• César: A free and neutral Internet has to accommodate (almost) all voices, including those critical of the
• Kevin Murphy: Looks like a WordPress theme placeholder.
• Bodger: not a great look https://lizforleader.co.uk/author/lizforleader/
• Dan: It never ceases to amaze me that elected politicians don't use .uk by default. You're standing t