Recent Comments

• Helmuts: thank you, Kev! .. another "black hole" in my knowledge that is filled a little :) Happy Monday!! H
• Kevin Murphy: If you mean the gTLD strings or the applicant, none of that information has been released and will n
• Helmuts: .. it would be cool to know which ones are these.. not mentioned. Next time, Kev? :) Thank you for y
• Lucia: Headline shocked me! I thought it was Tom Barrett!
• Jothan Frakes: .jot is a great domain from my perspective
• Sivasubramanian Muthusamy: Dear Kevin Murphy, While your choice of phrasing—such as "throws a bone" and "stubborn"—is qu
• roddie: And the electronic music label Planet Mu has the domain, unsuprisingly, planet.mu !
• Ray D: Verisign, Godaddy and ID are the 3 potential horses (as you are aware PIR is not a technical RO, the
• TLD Advice , Phil Buckingham: To confirm : ALL applicants. An application WILL need to show 2 years of fully audited set
• Christa Taylor: Congratulations to the community behind this milestone - an enormous amount of time and energy has g
• Maxim Alzoba: During the previous round the cost of becoming a backend for your own TLD was 0.00 and this time you
• R. Funden: The difference being that registrars are competing against other registrars in price, driving the ul
• Boss: greed kills
• R. Funden: I am still waiting to be able to register clownpenis.fart as per https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWI
• Helmuts: Very interesting.. Thank you for sharing - never knew the short version (neither a longer one) of .m
• Daniel Greenberg: The real issue is the amount of time it takes to have a phishing site taken down. Most retail regist
• Richard Funden: You mean registrars stepping up and actually taking action against reported instances of DNS abuse?
• Jan Peeters: These kinds of rotten apples must be removed from the ecosystem. They are a disgrace to the entire c
• Kevin Murphy: How come?
• Helmuts: .. .circle is superb! Congratulations to Identity Digital!!
• Jothan Frakes: I really like this TLD
• Helmuts: Good morning John, I do not think stopping in-person events is the right answer. For many, thi
• John D: Of course not. An internet industry that still insists on meeting in person, regardless of the risk
• Rob Golding: Significantly more gets accomplished in the meeting week than remoting. That conversation in the
• John D: It doesn’t make sense for this to go ahead as planned. In a world where remote participation is fu
• Mickye.com: It sounds a bit .anal
• Mr. Tate: It was cheap too. $60 mill, more than you broke fuckers ever seen!
• R.Funden: All paid for by made up currency. If I can print the currency the price is paid it, I can pay as muc
• John Colascione: “Anguilla says the domain is now one of its primary sources of income” that is incredible!
• basketball stars: It's fascinating to see the resilience of gTLDs like this one. I remember launching a niche project
• Name: It doesnt mean its a domain name....
• Gary: the chief exec / ceo of Team Internet has burnt the business hard. He is now forcing a fire sale of
• Will P: This has nothing to do with Google. The underlying issue is prolonged governance failure at board le
• christopher ambler: You know, the original application for .web still has not been denied, withdrawn, or otherwise chang
• Sprunki: This is all about GoDaddy clinging to paper straws in order to make money, not about safeguarding ge
• Matthias Pfeifer: This will never happen, because it will significantly disrupt profits and (effective) abuse mitigati
• Kate: That's it. Registry operators know there is always going to be residual business from brand protecti
• Gary: It would be good for ICANN to enhance their enforcement process against registry operators and regis
• Gary: This has nothing to do with protecting legitimate interests and everything to do with GoDaddy claspi
• Richard A.: Symon Andrade, while your point is understandable from a global marketing perspective, it’s import
• DNSpear: Interesting, this has been a long-standing pain point for many domain investors and end users alike.
• DNSpear: GoDaddy’s move makes sense, DomainNames.com is a strong brand for an ultra-premium marketplace. Bu
• John McCormac: Shifting backend providers for some gTLDs isn't so much rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic as try
• Ben Anderson: I think that's just the number of domain managers who aren't knowledgeable enough (or are too scared
• Ben Anderson: mobi was horribly branded. Thinking it would be easier for users to enter only lessened the value of
• Ben Anderson: mobi was horribly branded. Thinking it would be easier for users to enter only lessened the value of
• Matthias Pfeifer: Farewell Rubens. He definitely was one of the best in the ICANN universe.
• Reg: Rubens was kind and patient when I was a babby in the ICANN space, an attitude I will always strive
• Gary: Pushing the narrative that this is all Google's fault simply does not make sense. Whoever buys wh
• Jean Giillon: A "good guy". The guy who always answered emails. A positive attitude, always.