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Analyzing The Inbox of a Spammer's Domain

• Comment posted Aug 28, 2003 3:30 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Glad you found this article valuable and thanks for your comment. "I would like to quote the first few sentences of this article and link back to this page from my e-zine"—this would be fine.

Lobbying for Whois Privacy

• Comment posted Oct 30, 2003 11:29 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  There was indeed a typo in the title which is now fixed. Thankfully the correct word is "Lobbying"—we hope! "Lobbing: To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc" is a word that hopefully will never be needed in any…

ICC and the U.N. Takeover

• Comment posted Dec 12, 2003 7:20 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  Thank you Jane for pointing out the issue regarding the "Title" of the article. Although we would not foresee a lawsuit, nevertheless the following revision appears to be appropriate (also added to the beginning of the article): Editor's Note: Upon…

• Comment posted Dec 11, 2003 6:28 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  Dear Bryce Corbett, Thank you for your comments above and on behalf of all the readers, I'd like to thank you for the additional clarifications you have provided. Please also note that we are not a typical news publication; CircleID…

Recent WHOIS Report Overlooking Fundamental Issue?

• Comment posted Jun 17, 2004 2:46 am PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Update: Public Comment Period for GNSO Whois Task Force Preliminary Reports Extended to Monday, 5 July 2004

Sender Address Verification: Solving the Spam Crisis

• Comment posted Jul 27, 2004 3:56 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  As per above comments by Chris Linfoot and The Famous Brett Watson: Sometimes articles are posted because they carry points that are determined to offer good bases for a worthwhile debate. They're definitely not advertorials (or a paid inclusions). Thank…

IDN Spoofing Solutions With Balance

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2005 7:19 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  Thanks Jane, the long URL in the first comment seemed to be causing the problem. Update: "application No. 20040139086" in the first comment now points to the original URL which is not displayed on the screen any more.

Domain Name Dispute Cases Increased by 6.6% in 2004

• Comment posted Feb 20, 2005 8:55 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  Thanks Colin. We have now updated the text to correct the display of domain names mentioned in the report.

AOL and Goodmail: Two Steps Back for Email

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2006 5:10 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  Thank you all for your valid inputs and we apologies for this oversight. This article was posted on CircleID as a featured blog, originally published on Return Path's blog which did include authors name and title. Since postings on CircleID…

Hypertext Mail Protocol (a.k.a. Stub Email): A Proposal

• Comment posted Feb 19, 2006 8:23 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  Randy, Thanks for the inputs here: But first I’d want to try to understand it a little better.  I wrote something in a sort of "thinking on paper" exercise, but it exceeded the 6000 character limit on comments--even if it…

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 02, 2006 4:56 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  We have fixed the problem causing the "http://" issue in the comment mentioned above (Comment #21). Please send us a feedback if there are any more problems encountered. Thank you.

Why I Voted for .XXX

• Comment posted Mar 30, 2007 9:29 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  George Kirkos said: All of Susan’s posts to CircleID, if you view her profile (click her name), are blog entries, with exactly ZERO comments to other people’s posts. Please note that there are numerous CircleID participants whose posts are featured…

CircleID Relaunched: New Topics, New Tools, Mobile Access and More

• Comment posted May 04, 2007 8:19 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Simon Waters said: Some of the inbound links broke. Mainly pages about users. Any plans to stick redirects on these? Google will love you more if you do. Definitely, we are ensuring all old URLs redirect to new locations (the…

• Comment posted May 04, 2007 5:36 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Ale said: As a criticism, I wander why Email isn't one of the new topics. Actually, anti-spam is one of the tags available for topic definition and many posts address that subject. At the core technical level, a lot of…

Vint Cerf on the Diminishing Novelty of Internet

• Comment posted May 16, 2007 11:48 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Kieren McCarthy said: This is a bit of a weird angle. I'm not sure what "diminishing novelty" means. The interview certainly doesn't imply any novelty or otherwise. Anyway… I thought it might be worth me sticking my head up for…

Dispute Over Western Sahara's .EH

• Comment posted Sep 07, 2007 3:26 am PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Joe Provo said: "suffix" and "extension" show a serious lack of clue on the part of this 'circleID reporter'. This is not a report by CircleID, it's a news brief based on what and how news has been reported in…

Developing Internet Standards: How Can the Engineering Community and the Users Meet?

• Comment posted Sep 21, 2007 2:00 am PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Paul Hoffman said: Oh, and Patrik Fältström's name is spelled wrong in the article. Whoopsie. Thank you Paul, spelling corrected.

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!

• Comment posted Dec 17, 2007 3:48 pm PST — by Ali Farshchian
  Larry Seltzer has written a follow up story on eWeek: DNSSEC Is Dead, Stick a Fork in It

CERN's Grid 10,000 Times Faster than Broadband

• Comment posted Apr 08, 2008 3:56 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Jeroen and Gary, thank you for your comments and clarification. The News Briefing on CircleID is partly to make everyone aware of the news (and what is being reported as news) in the media. This is not an automated service…

Revision3 and Media Defender

• Comment posted May 30, 2008 10:12 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Christopher Parente said: Don't know where the first part of that truncated sentence in original post went. There's been a lot of coverage of the Memorial Day weekend incident, wanted to see what you folks have heard about it. Sorry…

Largest Synchronized Internet Security Effort Underway to Patch Newly Found DNS Bug

• Comment posted Jul 08, 2008 9:43 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Larry, yes according this and probably other sources which I havn't had time to look into: One of the Microsoft fixes for Windows DNS was part of a group of patches issued today by software vendors to plug a multi-platform…

Just a Matter of Time Before DNS Attack Code Might Surface

• Comment posted Jul 23, 2008 11:19 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Done.

DNS Attack Creator Becomes a Victim of His Own Creation

• Comment posted Jul 30, 2008 6:25 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  We have added an update to the post above as well.

Day 30: Kaminsky DNS Bug Disclosure

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 5:51 am PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Correct and just to clarify the timeline start date in the post is actually referring to the start of the 30-day time period which began with a public non-technical press conference on Jul 8th - the mass media news break…

New gTLDs: Comments on the Unsigned "The Economic Case for Auctions"

• Comment posted Aug 25, 2008 5:53 pm PDT — by Ali Farshchian
  Corrected.