Recent Comments

• 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• christopher ambler: You know, the original application for .web still has not been denied, withdrawn, or otherwise chang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.
• 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