I started a new company with Antony Van Couvering called Minds + Machines, and we’ll be posting over there at that blog about professional domain matters and new TLDs. http://www.mindsandmachines.com/blog   -J

This just in, the new TLD process guidelines are posted, as promised by ICANN a few weeks in advance of the Cairo Public meeting. http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-draft-rfp-24oct08-en.pdf

I had the privilege to speak at the CENTR General Assembly in Pisa, to discuss the marketplace and how new TLDs can be assimilated into the marketplace via the registrar channel. https://www.centr.org/main/lib/g1/4622-CTR.html It may prove to be like taking a small sip from a fireplug with the number...

DotME, the collaboration between Afilias, GoDaddy, and DoMen seems to have launched with some success, and I am the proud registrant of jothan.me.  Congratulations to all those that registered and participated.

I am now the registrant of jothan.asia, which is now on the giant shelf of extensions I have my first name registered in.  I am now a multicultural ubergeek.

Desiree Miloshevic of Afilias is talking about the history and future of the Domain Name System, including IDN, in an upcoming forum at the Oxford Internet Institute on January 28th, 2008. The session is titled “What’s in a name? The History and Future of the Domain Name System“. Here...

ICANN is establishing a forum on allocation methods for single character ([A-Z0-9]) second level registrations in the gTLDs. There are 16 gTLDs that have single character registrations restricted, of which .COM, .NET, and .ORG have only six registrations within that predated the rule to establish the...