Registry Failover Planning Should include Registrar Provisioning
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...
Domain Marketplace moves…
The Domain Marketplace converged on New York this week for the Sedo User conference and T.R.A.F.F.I.C., with other events like the DomainJamNYC happening in the midst of it all. Lots to report, though I am not there. Oversee.net completed the acquisition of Snapnames...
Webex as a platform
I just have to talk up Web Conferencing provider WebEx and their service. I have been in many web conferences that this platform has supported, and it worked each time without a hitch. Adobe now is offering a variety of web conferencing solutions as well along with...
The Jothan Frakes Islands (.JF)
For the past 10 years I have been contributing quietly to the DNS and TLD infrastucture in both private and public companies, in a variety of technical roles. Over the course of that time, I have gotten the opportunity to work with some fantastic and brilliant people....
Fun with ImageChef…
I got sent the following image chef sticker because of all the work I do with ccTLDs, and I got a big laugh out of it. Seems like you can plug in whatever you want and it will render the graphic for you. This was the funniest thing eh-ver, and it seems like the...
Web 2.0 Word to my brother man…
Props to my brother... Page just finished up another movie, the upcoming "Enchanted" starring McDreamy. He's been doing computer animation for Tippett Studios since 1997. Yeah, his name is Page Frakes, as opposed to the new web 2.0 company Page Flakes. By the way I...
ICANN San Juan, Puerto Rico 6/25-29, 2007
Whois, New TLDs, and … La Isla Bonita!
INTEROP.JP June 11-15 2007
I have been asked to speak at the INTEROP in Chiba (Tokyo) Japan on the 14th, and accepted. What is INTEROP?...
.Bank??
There is more and more conversation surrounding introduction of a TLD called .bank for financial institutions to use for their websites. f-Secure has two articles, one called "Masters of Their Domain" and "And you can take that to the .bank" Eric Kitchens' Blog has an...
Speaking at HostingCon
I'll be part of a panel at HostingCon in July to talk about domain monetization and internet advertising. The hosting industry is somewhat aware of this, but I think that there are some shifts coming in how they can turn customer loss or abandonment into opportunity,...