Recent Comments

• Rubens Kuhl: JVs were and will be allowed pre-application as well, like what did .sas (JV between software compan
• Kevin Murphy: In this case it seems the JV was formed years ago and the gTLD has not yet been delegated.
• Elaine Pruis: JV's are only prohibited during the application evaluation process. ROs will be free to make busines
• Steve GOBIN: Congratulations to Bruce! He had an excellent reputation as a board member of ICANN, whereas AUDA h
• John Berryhill: With the ban on forming joint ventures, this sort of resolution of an intractable conflict will not
• Kevin Murphy: Based on my incomplete research, I think .xxx makes more money from registrations than it does from
• Helmuts: hmm.. this is an interesting thought.. yes, it would be interesting to see these numbers.
• John Berryhill: I failed to note that if the idea is that one can switch to the "second choice" on the condition tha
• John Berryhill: "The Board views the ability to submit an alternate string at the time of application as a path to
• John Berryhill: "How difficult is it to choose friendly, tolerant and peaceful countries?" It is apparently becom
• John Berryhill: It would still be interesting to know whether, on balance, .xxx generates more revenue from domain r
• Matthias Pfeifer: Well, this wouldn't solve the problem which string a applicant prefer - this doesn't prevent the com
• Jovenet Consulting: I find this is genius from the ICANN text : "Ability to submit alternate strings: Applicants should
• Helmuts: ICANN meetings should not be organized in such countries. Period. How difficult is it to choose frie
• Andrew: Also another place women probably won't feel welcome
• Richard Funden: I am much more worried about their stance on freedom from religion: "It is a criminal offense to â€
• Rubens Kuhl: Not really. The 5% per month root zone increase quickly adds up to much more than 500 per year, so t
• Phil Buckingham: Intriguing .... . Academic Really . Simple maths. So the max delegation rate into the Root Zone pe
• Rubens Kuhl: While ICANN requires standardized WHOIS URLs such as whois.nic.mobi, there was nothing preventing wh
• Rubens Kuhl: That draft text doesn't comply the SubPro report and doesn't comply with board adoption of that reco
• Steve GOBIN: Maybe one of the persons that was recently laid off ;-)
• Volker Greimann: Ideally not only OFAC, but also other organizations, such as the EU... I think ICANN has an importa
• John Berryhill: If someone really wants to really cripple the Russian air travel industry, then *require* them to us
• R. Funden: OR, ... - and hear me out on this, ... OR, Russia could just call this entire misadventure off and
• Rubens Kuhl: ICANN will always have to be incorporated in one jurisdiction or another; but if some jurisdiction o
• Tom Barrett: There is another simpler way this issue can be resolved. ICANN could engage with OFAC to explicit
• Ukraine: What is ICANN waiting for to 🦵 terrorist state russia from using domains. Congratulations to .aer
• Dan: They already have -> IANA #1330 Microsoft Corporation Also a registrar is not the same as a re
• Dan: Oh, if only that was true. Just have to look at your average phishing email... a lot of people f
• Joe: Dumbest propaganda ever. They are thinking that people are dumb as they. Nobody visits their fake si
• Kevin Murphy: Correlation does not equal causation.
• Rubens Kuhl: From the complaint linked at https://domainincite.com/30131-frat-boy-culture-icann-faces-more-sexual
• Rubens Kuhl: I thought hyphenated domains were scam...
• shop.web-designs.net: Www.office looking like a typo without dotcom New gtlds are really scam tlds Microsoft should cr
• juan: lol they froze registrations for a minute pending discussion with the partner but it's live again no
• Ryan: That the ICA is talking to the NTIA directly is pretty huge. Hopefully that means the NTIA is serio
• Mr. Tate: Yes. I've bought it. Get fucked.
• Rubens Kuhl: What are you calling current gTLD Application Guidebook ? The one we have right now is 12 years old.
• Kevin Murphy: The rules have not yet been adopted and the language being drafted is for recommendations that would
• Chessur: Boo this man!! xD PDFs located here seem to indicate such rule changes were not adopted by ICANN:
• John Berryhill: Tipping them off is not fair. You may have deprived us of future entertainment here.
• Kevin Murphy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
• Rubens Kuhl: .farms bought the farm
• Steve GOBIN: The following article has just been posted:https://domainnamewire.com/2024/08/15/former-employee-sue
• Rubens Kuhl: More from Verisign in this topic: https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/myths-vs-facts-about-dot-c
• Midnight Cowboy: Could not agree more, very much a restrictive practice and should be outlawed, plus their enforced p
• Jeff Neuman: I have known Ambassador Sapiro for many years beginning when she was at VeriSign. After leaving Ver
• Rubens Kuhl: Nothing is free, but they are both components of the TCO of having an online presence. Registrars an
• Richard Funden: 'If you add registration plus hosting package...", because hosting is free, right?
• Dan: Bonkers strategy.. could have setup an ICANN registrar for less than $50K and not had to fight again