Recent Comments

• Blogbuster: That's huge!
• Peter Larsen: When facebook stops sponsoring crime networks and all sort of sh*t, i'll listen to their opinion abo
• Jan peeters: And since when do we give a f#ck about META's opinion when it comes to internet governance? Goosebe
• Jan Peeters: Again the arrogance of US big tech. They will decide for you. In 5 years, nobody will use this bloat
• Kevin Murphy: I guess we'll have to see what they do with their search preferences.
• Name GULF: Finally! It was getting a bit wild with all those ccTLDs (you'll experience this while travelling ab
• David Chelly: Incredible news! Google is on the contrary terribly bad at providing geolocalized results. I am
• Kevin Murphy: Good to know.
• NamerTips: ICANN should really opt for an overhaul of the organization and not just budget cuts. As of now, it
• Christopher Ambler: Thanks for pointing out that it was the "old Epik" under Monster. Clearly, we, the "new Epik," wo
• Dan: You'd think Matt had had enough scandal this year!
• David M Piscitello: Nigel was indeed a thoroughly pleasant chap but he was so much more. He was a great colleague. W
• Guy Smiley: Knock Knock RDAP and Jane There Knock Knock RDAPtation Is Hard Way To (Knock Knock) RDAP-M-P(e
• Robert Martin-Legene: You almost had me, there.
• mario: fire all but 3 employees, and let ai do the rest
• Milan: https://ripn.su/en/news/statement-on-su-cctld-status/ original statement in English
• Kevin Murphy: I did. Thanks.
• Jean Guillon: Did you write "russian law" ?
• Kevin Murphy: Wiser and/or weaker.
• Dcentro: I think you meant "Colombian government".
• Andrew Allemann: It seems that both RosNIIROS and ICANN are relying on the fact that a follow up to its initial, non-
• Steve Gobin: One solution would be South Sudan to have its 2-letter country code changed from SS to SU in the ISO
• Page howe: Interesting use of the word law. be given time to implement the policy before it becomes law and
• David Chelly: Interesting news, but this won't reverse the decline of .COM When I've started investing in domains
• Rubens Kuhl: Russian language is not under sanctions, Russian Federation is. Russian is still one of UN languages
• Kevin Murphy: Sounds like bullshit to me.
• Jovenet Consulting: Icann was criticized for "not doing anything" about the russian invasion of Ukraine but I recently h
• Tom Barrett: The way to mitigate this risk would be to request a review of the ccNSO Retirement Policy here:
• Jan Peeters: Yet another trojan horse.
• Tom: https://www.asciostatus.com/incidents/vg71tr7fs65n .MU Registry Maintenance (Transition to Identi
• Kevin Murphy: Source?
• Tom: Identity Digital just took over the management of .mu (Mauritius), so they have both .io and .mu now
• Garth MILLER: Well, ID took over January 15th 2025, and from the 1st to the 15th there were about 14k creates.
• Rubens Kuhl: It seems blogs such as this one and DNW are already doing that.
• Michael: Just change the slogan to People.Love.Things
• Michael: Good point. How could we facilitate discovery of contention sets before applying?
• Anthos: Fully agree, that registrar is a scam
• Kevin Murphy: My apologies. Here are the sources: Press release published January 17, 2025: https://cnnic.cn/n4/
• David: How sad this article is not sourced! The latest statistics available on CNNIC website are those of R
• Kevin Murphy: Have you seen their banknotes?
• Richard Funden: Coming next: .rug .pull
• Volker Greimann: Canadians are not Americans? Since when?
• Rubens Kuhl: For contention sets known before applications are submitted, it's also possible to do a private sett
• Gavin Brown: The main IANA website has a full list of everything they publish if you follow the "Protocol Registr
• Gavin Brown: IANA is very receptive to feedback: send them an email at iana@iana.org :) (BTW - I should have s
• Kevin Murphy: Unless you're coding an RDAP client. :)
• David Conrad: https://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json In theory, rdap clients should fetch that file to know where
• Rubens Kuhl: Previously, data.iana.org had a directory listing that would refer to all of the datasets they publi
• Kevin Murphy: Thanks for all the info Gavin. I did read the RFCs, and the Base Registry Agreement, while trying t
• Gavin Brown: > It’s not super obvious, but it seems instead you have to head over to IANA’s “Bootstrap S