Recent Comments

• John Berryhill: "Well, it looks like we all applied for the same TLD and ICANN is encouraging us to form a joint ven
• John Berryhill: "Ideas such as allowing good-faith joint ventures to be formed between competing applicants..." B
• Rubens Kuhl: Most, if not all, feeds prohibit redistribution. So the money issue is not ICANN's or Contracted Par
• Matthias Pfeifer: >Which is a real hassle, adding a few commercial >feeds to block stuff, the cost goes up reall
• Arnt: Arnt is still around. I too think the root cause is the same.
• Stacey: "at least one ear was grazed" Highly inappropriate to use that language.
• Rubens Kuhl: Referring to registrars and answering the complaint would suffice according to the agreement.
• Matthias Pfeifer: That's very theoretical and why should they loose their TLD? Abuse Cases are used to hand over to th
• Rubens Kuhl: So all I have to say is "Me not speak Engrish" to not handle abuse reports ? Great, problem solved.
• Theo Geurts: It is a very good feed. And for free, we have been using it for a while now. https://realtimeregis
• Kevin Murphy: Plenty of people at ICANN speak Chinese last time I checked.
• Helmuts: The CEO of .TOP Registry was at the recent ICANN Contracted Parties Summit in Paris. Btw, he does no
• Kevin Murphy: Yup.
• Owen: The effective date of the DNS Abuse amendments was 5 April 2024, not 2 April 2024. See https://www.i
• Rubens Kuhl: The penalty is loosing the registry agreement and the TLD.
• Common Sense: I understood Emergency Back End Registry operator as a tool to support registries where the actual t
• Matthias Pfeifer: The whole process still lacks of the definition of penalty.
• Matthias Pfeifer: >If somebody told me that this blog spends >altogether too much time shitting on dot-brand >
• Symon Andrade: I came from the future to say that the ccTLD .MY does not accept pornographic, LGBT content or conte
• Garth MILLER: For the avoidance of confusion, there haven't been any technical failures of the back-end registry s
• Helmuts: .. sounds like a dirty war :/ .. someone is burning money to get a chance to get their hands on .com
• Dan: How is that kind of term ever a fair contract? It's wild that ICANN ever let it get put in in the
• Jeff Neuman: Same comment as I left on another site: Without commenting on the actions of VeriSign over the ye
• Rubens Kuhl: The .net ICANN fee of 75 cents instead of the standard 25 cents is also something curious in the ICA
• Adrian: Ah, clever :)
• Helmuts: :) This was short :) Great to see PorkBun reaching such a great number. Didn't know that they are
• Observer: Founder out, 10 weeks later, back in. Old CEO out, new CEO in. The new owners seem to be a bit nervo
• Matthias Pfeifer: It would be an amazing case for psychologists if we see another brand applying for a brand next roun
• Dariusz: Now, after June 1, the prices for registration and renewal of .TM domain names are different, more e
• Matthias Pfeifer: 2.000 applications .. wow
• Kevin Murphy: I called it a "manifesto", ICANN did not.
• Adrian: Since when do businesses have manifestos?
• Steve GOBIN: The 30 staff members that were recently laid off will certainly feel a bitter taste in their mouth w
• Rubens Kuhl: Kevin credited NCSG, of which NCUC is part. Inside NCSG, whether something comes from NCUC, NPOC or
• Milton Mueller: Hello Kevin. You really need to give more credit to NCUC for this outcome. We were the only ones ra
• James Gannon: Correct this would not be permitted spend. Previous round funds leftover could be though.
• John Berard: Does she stay?
• Rubens Kuhl: I don't think the auction proceeds guidelines would allow for that.
• Andrew: Did they discuss taking future auction proceeds to defray the costs?
• Kevin Murphy: "was"?
• Don: Arnt was one of the best hires for the UA program.
• Rubens Kuhl: macOS WhatsApp also not doing linkfication, could be the same root cause as iOS devices.
• John McCabe: An excellent analysis, Jeff. Bravo! You've hit on all the major pain points and succinctly artic
• Rubens Kuhl: Now that ICANN Org released the RSP eval fee, which at first is going to be USD 92k, we know that th
• Matthias Pfeifer: Anyone here (besides Managers/Lawers in the ICANN circus) wondering? Let's get back to Email and
• Snoopy: All I see on their site is a picture of a tent, nothing else works.
• Jeff Neuman: There are certain realities that we have to deal with. First, ICANN is the only entity that can app
• Rubens Kuhl: One can't blame ICANN Org for not being optimist. That said, it's expected that the number of RS
• Ed: I tried submitting a request for a phishing site registered and hosted through goDAddy, and was told
• Kevin Murphy: I look forward to the review :)