Recent Comments

• Steve Gobin: Not surprising! The most criminal friendly registrars systematically indicates a whois proxy servic
• Snoopy: Farewell Lipsy!
• Sundram Tiwari: No, bro icann is an non profit organisation and 135$ million dollars will be donated in icann grant
• Jagan: Great feature. Didn’t know until this post. Will implement.
• Aquarion: Even if they drop the .io country level domain, I expect someone (probably google, since it's main a
• Jovenet Consulting: I wonder how long it is going to take for a .TRUMP ?
• Atlantic Names: I feel like numbers like this don't really mean anything as far as adoption goes. There are less
• Byyp.com: After your article I have visited ebay website, it looks so outdated. Nobody cares about their tagli
• Maxim Alzoba: .su is inherited from the Soviet Union like national debt e.t.c. , and still has quite many active d
• Matthias Pfeifer: They could update their arguments.
• Paul Twomey: Kevin, When the first agreements were put in place with registrars in the first 1-2 years of ICANN,
• sultan4d: who won? you or capten?
• Jothan Frakes: Not surprising. Every time the registry makes fee increases each year, registrants reduce the num
• Jothan Frakes: Aren't folks scratching their heads and wondering of this might perhaps have correlation with the re
• Rubens Kuhl: Registry fees are being increased from 6,250 to 6,450 (quarterly fixed fees), from 25 cents to 25.8
• Steve GOBIN: 11 years ago, they did not hesitate to use my then medical condition to put on my back everything th
• Helmuts: Boosting gtld cashflow for 11% is definitely a healthy gain for ICANN’s revenue streams.
• Rubens Kuhl: Perhaps Meta should have been on the receiving side of this as well ? Most abuse I get these days is
• Steve GOBIN: South Sudan should have got the ISO code SU instead of the crappy SS. Then they would have inherita
• Rubens Kuhl: TLD with the name of a country -> already blocked in 2012 and will keep being blocked in 2026 TL
• Volker Greimann: INTA folk seem to forget that ICANN could not simply stuff all their ludicrous demands into the cont
• Rubens Kuhl: I believe they mean that despite of thousand work hours, ICANN is still going to require them to dis
• David Conrad: Statistically speaking, same thing.
• John Berryhill: The difference between a person with a lottery ticket and a person without a lottery ticket, is that
• John Berryhill: Part of the problem is that there are a fair number of lawyers who believe that everyone else is stu
• Owen: I agree 100% with John. How lawyers can tell the ICANN community with a straight face that revea
• John Berryhill: It's long past time for this requirement. Objections which have been raised by various lawyers ar
• Garth Miller: My comment was simply a response to Kevins observation that DataHaven's approach to operations is "
• Peter: It's worth noting that this comment is completely unbiased and has NOTHING to do with the fact that
• Garth Miller: It is worth noting that the current locally run DataHaven registry infrastructure is standards based
• Christopher Ambler: Decoolify? That’s a fine new term; perhaps my new band name :-)
• Tommy: All useless extensions. It's like the same bucket of shi- of people hang out together. They keep pum
• Calvin: How many are resolvable on say, a standard android web browser? Or any standard web browser. Or e
• TJP: Two quotes in this article tell me Epik and this new clown CEO are not to be trusted. 1. “When
• Kevin Murphy: Thanks. .sv is of course El Salvador.
• Petruska: Slovenia = .si !!!
• Jan Horak: Will be renamed from British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritian Indian Ocean Territory and it will
• David Conrad: True, although if IO gets transferred to Mauritius, I'd imagine there might be some changes in how .
• Thomas Ment: Many countries have separate country codes and tlds for separate areas, UK, US, France, Netherlands,
• Rubens Kuhl: Yeah, the ccTLD for Comoros, right ?
• Kevin Murphy: I think that was just a name change rather than a change of sovereignty.
• Mark Thorpe: Unfortunately .WS lives on!
• Mark Thorpe: Let the drama begin! Keep Calm and Buy .Com
• Braden Pollock: Western Samoa also disappeared when they became just Samoa but .ws lives on.
• Rob Golding: CreatorSEO have a much better graphic for it at https://creatorseo.com/why-your-domain-name-is-impo
• avri: > are perhaps more surprising, given the registries are run by a former ICANN director. Do yo
• Reallybigidea.com: This is insane. I still don't accept this tld as io or co. Very high renewal fees. Ai is not good
• Rubens Kuhl: And if .br deducts the USD 92k from the FY25 contribution due to the RSP program, it might only pay
• Kevin Murphy: I prefer "web extension".
• Matthias Pfeifer: You guys and ICANN are all wrong: This is obviously an "internet address".