I posted this to the ICANN comments. If you feel strongly one way or another about 1-2 character domains being released in .INFO, I encourage you to comment as well. Here is a link to the information on how to participate (deadline March 20, 2010). I have been pleased to see the trend of the relaxation...

Michael Berkins is blogging about a particularly nasty bit of legislature that is coming down the tubes. I am really concerned about a piece of legislature that has been getting pres. On February 25th, 2008 US Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) introduced S. 2661, the “Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection...

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...

Please welcome North Korea (aka Korea, Democratic People’s Republic) (.KP), Montenegro (.ME), and Serbia (.RS) to the root zone. Delegation was approved at the recent Special ICANN Board of Director meeting on September 11. My compliments to Kim Davies and David Conrad at IANA on a smooth process...

I commented on a public document.   Let me be more specific… Recently, there has been some talk over what a registry failover would need to look like, in the event that a new registry provider would need to be designated. As new Top Level Domains (TLD) are introduced, many of them include failover...

Heading down to Brazil for my umpteenth ICANN meeting. I’ve been asked to moderate a panel on the registrar phenomenon called ‘domain tasting’ on 12/6/06. Domain Name Marketplace Workshop Link