Recent Comments

• Rubens Kuhl: The .net contract is very curious due its higher registry fee (75 cents instead of 25 cents). It sou
• Kevin Murphy: I like her too, but I do wonder about the transparency of the complaints office under her management
• Rob: I could not think of a better person for the job. Her history of ICANN, her compassion and her
• James: Thanks for the kind words Reuben, trust that I (and hopefully Avri) won't be going too far from ICAN
• Dan: More like a bangle than handcuffs. All they have to do is tell us they're doing something we don'
• Owen: ICANN's breach notice to Net 4 India in December 2020 covered 14 tickets, and referenced hundreds of
• Kevin Murphy: If it was 90% of members, there would be no chance whatsoever of the motion passing. Nominet's AGM t
• Andrew: See clause 4 of the current memorandum: 90% of votes cast by the steering committee (members) pre
• Leo: "but Nominet has set a massive 90% majority threshold for the changes to be approved." 90% of the
• Anthony Mitchell: Any Web 2.0 gTLD these gentlemen come home with will likely have more features bundled into it than
• Matthias Pfeifer: I was wondering why .brand TLDs are still in question out there. The .brand model has well proven it
• Rubens Kuhl: Does anyone have the link for Adrian Kinderis post mocking Radix for moving from ARI to CentralNIC t
• Matthias Pfeifer: Thats a lot of money which will break out some another stones out of Fort ICANN's wall. But I wou
• Irfan Habib: Daps are coming ahead. It will be overload and outperform traditional domaining / internet.
• Anastasia: Hi Jean, We are constantly adding new universities to our list. Anyone can send us a request, and
• Kevin Murphy: I'm not sure how wealthy American students are.
• Kevin Murphy: Yup.
• Jean Henrique: In summary, Namecheap forgets many students in underdeveloped countries to fawn over wealthy student
• John Berryhill: "That’s not as bad as April, when the net transfers number was -34,492" In absolute terms, but
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well, that could become the perfect delay-tool for the nxt round ..
• Kevin Murphy: Sadly, this was just another symptom of my deteriorating eyesight. Thanks.
• kamran: Why amazon is registering "sta" ending domain names ? springsta.com was registered by amazon last mo
• Rubens Kuhl: "The policy also bands privacy/proxy services." - I was going to correct that to "bans", but then I
• Christian Tecar: I really want to congratulate Michael Riedl, CEO of CentralNic, that is taking a leadership role in
• Lars: Kudos to Michael Riedl for championing sustainability in our industry. This is a great initiative. W
• Page Howe: ive done some consulting work with Freename and they have tried to be a responsible integration with
• Chad Ellis: I almost guarantee it was because email leakage. I own a geobank.com and a bank and uses geo name .b
• Rubens Kuhl: Closed generics are in a Schoredinger state: there is a status quo, one just doesn't know what it is
• Rubens Kuhl: We had two great losses in this NomCom batch, Avri Doria (ICANN Board) and James Gannon (PTI Board,
• Kevin Murphy: Pre-Musk, I would have said a .twitter application was a certainty. Now...
• Matthias Pfeifer: Next step could be applying for .twitter. scnr.
• Michael Anthony Castello: Whether you hate him or love him, this news is great for the domain name industry. Musk gambles $42
• Kevin Murphy: I'll try to remember how woke I am the next time I get suspended for hate speech.
• Peter: Woke mind virus is strong with this one. You can't even help yourself with using language like "he w
• Matthias Pfeifer: I would assume that are .brand TLDs the most "expensive". All those dying .brands create costs.
• PeterPete: That's great news! Denic is collectively owned by its member registrars, and everyone can become one
• StrongestBrands: (in further support of IDN.com) Not all marketing must focus on lowest-level awareness. Imagine Hert
• StrongestBrands: The perfect name will of course pass the audio test without confusing alternate spellings. But singl
• Kevin Murphy: :) "No, like to incite a riot."
• Michael Anthony Castello: O.com would be a great marketing visual on TV or screen but a buyer would also have to acquire Oh.co
• B.Lambert: It's depressing & frustrating to witness apparent collusion between ICANN & Verisign. The Pu
• Andrew: They announced this acquisition in April when they announced the acquisition of Top Level Design's r
• Kevin Murphy: The focus on proactive government engagement and "getting stuff done" in general suggests that ICANN
• Rubens Kuhl: Which is why a no-collusion clause like the one used in spectrum auctions was discussed in the PDP,
• Rubens Kuhl: Actually, most ICANN CEO successions I followed appeared to look for someone that wasn't like the pr
• Matthias Pfeifer: So private auctions will happen more private..
• Rubens Kuhl: Make Digital Archery Great Again
• Volker Greimann: “ alternative means for the resolution of such contention sets, such as drawing lots, may be explo
• Kevin Murphy: If I had more confidence in my ability to coin terms, I'd be using "C-Org".
• John Berryhill: " the Org will be hiring an auctions expert to investigate the best way to handle auctions and reduc