Recent Comments

• 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• christopher ambler: You know, the original application for .web still has not been denied, withdrawn, or otherwise chang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.
• Kevin Murphy: Thanks Karen. Others can find the resolution here: https://lists.icann.org/hyperkitty/list/council@
• Observer: It is a ccTLD, hence no EBERO provider required.
• Kevin Murphy: He was certainly detail oriented. He used to regularly humiliate me by using his second language to
• Paulo Marcos Drewiacki: Rubens was my boss and the person who hired me to work at NIC.br. Over the course of seven years, we
• Karen Day: To quote a motion a passed today by the GNSO, "His work is missed but he is missed more." RIP dea
• Neil: I wonder who will be their EBERO 🤔
• Pari Esfandiari: Tripti’s remarks were a legitimate expression of concern voiced after the NomCom’s decision—an
• Such a Waste: The chair finding out how the ICANN and NomCom works. Amazing :D
• Rob Golding: The rant from the chair was astounding - essentially making two claims ; * That it takes a director
• BPD Test: Nova is really going big with 200 new gTLDs! That $45.4 million application fee is mind-boggling. It
• Such a Waste: Imagine this : You help a coup against your boss, take the interim position and sit with the board,
• Andrew: The most surprising thing about this post is that .mobi still has 265k registrations. It shows the i
• avri doria: Well that will certainly make me think two or three times before reporting anything. Reports about
• Helmuts: Congratulations to Com Laude!! Huge respect and all the further success! It was already getting a
• Helmuts: .. interesting.. thank you for covering this. H
• Rubens Kuhl: Nomulus own documentation mentions which parts are usable out of the box and which ones require inte
• Gary: The Nomulus git repo is not very well maintained and it will be quite challenging to use this RSP co
• Matthias Pfeifer: I had no problems (days ago) to onboard the well known RAs to .versicherung, which was somewhat spec
• Rubens Kuhl: The only issue with running your own back-end is to get registrars to integrate. The already operati
• RKB-CashproofDomains.com: This is a bold step by Unstoppable. Vertical integration, especially with Nomulus, could set the sta
• Matthias Pfeifer: That step makes absolutely sense. Looking forward to see the opposite arguments (if any).
• avri doria: Involuntary Euthanasia?
• Jovenet Consulting: I am pretty much excited about these two. Am not so sure .HOTEL will be a hit but, powered by Verisi
• Christopher Ambler: You rang?
• Rubens Kuhl: If the choice is between ICANN parties and the pockets of alt-root speculators, then there is no evo
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well, it was some polemic in my post. Most internet users really didn't care who owns a domain or
• Michael: But wouldn’t that transfer control over conflict resolution to the browser publishers, ultimately
• Matthias Pfeifer: The day browser developers will integrate alt-root lookups into their software will change the whole
• Gary: Why have a model in place that has less than 50% acceptance? Would it not be better to engage wit
• Gary: Layoffs at Team Internet have been underway for more than 12 months across their DIS division. Most
• Rubens Kuhl: There is a case an applicant could make if its own RSP only provides services to its ASP application
• Garth Miller: I could be mistaken, but the 75-85% discount applies to the application fee, not the RSP evaluation