Recent Comments

• Steve Gobin: One solution would be South Sudan to have its 2-letter country code changed from SS to SU in the ISO
• Page howe: Interesting use of the word law. be given time to implement the policy before it becomes law and
• David Chelly: Interesting news, but this won't reverse the decline of .COM When I've started investing in domains
• Rubens Kuhl: Russian language is not under sanctions, Russian Federation is. Russian is still one of UN languages
• Kevin Murphy: Sounds like bullshit to me.
• Jovenet Consulting: Icann was criticized for "not doing anything" about the russian invasion of Ukraine but I recently h
• Tom Barrett: The way to mitigate this risk would be to request a review of the ccNSO Retirement Policy here:
• Jan Peeters: Yet another trojan horse.
• Tom: https://www.asciostatus.com/incidents/vg71tr7fs65n .MU Registry Maintenance (Transition to Identi
• Kevin Murphy: Source?
• Tom: Identity Digital just took over the management of .mu (Mauritius), so they have both .io and .mu now
• Garth MILLER: Well, ID took over January 15th 2025, and from the 1st to the 15th there were about 14k creates.
• Rubens Kuhl: It seems blogs such as this one and DNW are already doing that.
• Michael: Just change the slogan to People.Love.Things
• Michael: Good point. How could we facilitate discovery of contention sets before applying?
• Anthos: Fully agree, that registrar is a scam
• Kevin Murphy: My apologies. Here are the sources: Press release published January 17, 2025: https://cnnic.cn/n4/
• David: How sad this article is not sourced! The latest statistics available on CNNIC website are those of R
• Kevin Murphy: Have you seen their banknotes?
• Richard Funden: Coming next: .rug .pull
• Volker Greimann: Canadians are not Americans? Since when?
• Rubens Kuhl: For contention sets known before applications are submitted, it's also possible to do a private sett
• Gavin Brown: The main IANA website has a full list of everything they publish if you follow the "Protocol Registr
• Gavin Brown: IANA is very receptive to feedback: send them an email at iana@iana.org :) (BTW - I should have s
• Kevin Murphy: Unless you're coding an RDAP client. :)
• David Conrad: https://data.iana.org/rdap/dns.json In theory, rdap clients should fetch that file to know where
• Rubens Kuhl: Previously, data.iana.org had a directory listing that would refer to all of the datasets they publi
• Kevin Murphy: Thanks for all the info Gavin. I did read the RFCs, and the Base Registry Agreement, while trying t
• Gavin Brown: > It’s not super obvious, but it seems instead you have to head over to IANA’s “Bootstrap S
• peter orourke: I can tell you one registrar that should be shutdown. That is sav.com. They have stollen several dom
• Volker Greimann: ....and as usual, registrars get to change their implementations without any benefits to them...
• Steve GOBIN: .seat and .audi are obviously successful. Bentley being for another type of consumer, the recipes th
• Rubens Kuhl: Why do you say "even ICANN" ? ICANN information security track record is of an under-performer, so t
• Domainz: Even ICANN isn’t safe! This crypto hack proves that no one is immune to phishing attacks. A wake-u
• Richard J. Sexton - VRx: Would this be a good time to mention that the guy who owns the Iraqi domain (.iq) is in Gaza. Act
• Adrian Kinderis: Who determines this relief? Is it applied by Registrants or Registrars or does ICANN simply arbitrar
• Jim Spaid: For instance: "What the fuck are you talking about" is about exactly what anyone should expect as
• Rubens Kuhl: Kerry Logistics is also one of two TLDs that changed string due to s*-up. They applied to .kerrylogi
• Rubens Kuhl: DNS delegation is all one needs to issue a TLS certificate for that domain, so TLS doesn't address t
• S Cournane: Why didn't Orwell pen the slogan that empathy is censorship?
• Derek: what is "az.mastercard.com" even used for? zero reference to anything on the Internet other than th
• Kevin Murphy: Cheers. I'm using borrowed spectacles at the moment.
• ZeroZoneZing: 'from June 2000' you've got the year wrong. Additionally, the very important distinction here is th
• Rubens Kuhl: The Independent Objector also has standing for filing LPI Objections, so it wouldn't require specifi
• António Guedes: We are writing to you on behalf of .PT, the registry responsible for managing the Portuguese top-lev
• Rubens Kuhl: Besides all 6 being solid Board Directors if elected, their statements provide good reading for curr
• Helmuts: Edmon Chong is very cool :)
• Tom Barrett: All would be solid Board Directors.
• Vivid Website: Hello, It's a kinda cool. Can I pay for a Premium with crypto-currencies?
• Rubens Kuhl: While new gTLDs do not have that much share in Latin America, they have some level of usage. For