Webmaster Radio

by | Dec 7, 2005 | Domain Aftermarket, ICANN, Jothan, Meetings, Speaking

I Guest host on Domain Masters tonight, 4pm Pacific, 7PM eastern, guest hosting for Monte Cahn while he is travelling. I was humbled that Monte chose me for this, as he is a kindred spirit who works very hard to develop awareness in the Domain Industry and grow the internet naming space. My guest was be Antony Van Couvering of Names@Work, a friend and mutual long time participant in the domain name industry. This should prove to be a great session, but it is my first webcast, so please pardon my ‘uh’ and ‘uhm’ count. 🙂

DotEU Sunrise

by | Dec 7, 2005 | ICANN, NewTLDs

DotEU Sunrise! is here. The folks at EURID deserve a round of applause for opening these floodgates during calendar 2005 after such a long and arduous process.

ICANN – Luxembourg

by | Jul 18, 2005 | Domain Shows, ICANN, Meetings, NewTLDs

The ICANN meetings in Luxembourg were hot but good. Lots accomplished here. The ccNSO has put together some fairly agile accountability frameworks that will hopefully be the start of better metrics – on behalf of ICANN/IANA and on behalf of the ccTLD administrators. This has been deadlocked for a long period of time by a number of issues, and Chris Disspain, among others, as really untangled the mess.

There is no perfect, but what seems to be the case is that there may be a solution where there is equity to the dissatisfaction on both sides.

Anyway, I have written an article on CircleID about this event.

Special thanks to Gavin Brown of Centralnic for the photos.

Domain Roundtable May 2005

by | May 30, 2005 | Domain Aftermarket, Domain Shows, ICANN, NewTLDs, Speaking

The Domain Roundtable Conference, which I had to bootstrap from the ground up, has turned out to be a success.

Thank you to all the staff at Name Intelligence and to the attendees and industry that came out to support this great gathering.

The speakers were all top notch, the content was fantastic, and the place was absent any egos.

It was an interesting thing to see Intellectual Property interests, Domain Name registries and registrars, and domain investors all under one roof getting to know each other.