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The Window of Opportunity for ccTLDs

• Comment posted Sep 07, 2010 6:27 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Shall we ignore that minor detail that .CO is the biggest typo of .com available?  This isn't about branding in most cases, it's about traffic.  Just like .cm for Cameroon. Let's also ignore the fact that most big companies register…

A Case for Dot-Outlet TLD

• Comment posted Oct 30, 2009 5:30 am PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Alex, The arguments for a .outlet TLD are some of the weakest I've seen of all the new TLD arguments. 1.  A customer who is confused by BrandOutlet.com and not Brand.Outlet?  I would say 1:1000 customers would fit that scenario,…

61 Businesses Tell ICANN New TLDs Are Needed to Help Consumers, Encourage Innovation, Avoid Chaos

• Comment posted Sep 30, 2009 2:33 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  I didn't know what a Google was not too long ago.  Allowing everyone access to 'better' names means more overlap and less creativity.  Using your united example, I want united capital, is it united.com? unitedcapital.com? united.bank? united.fund? united.capital? You're from…

• Comment posted Sep 29, 2009 10:49 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Although the many benefits of new top-level domains are obvious to many, and although they are central to ICANN’s mandate, still there are doubters who with great intensity plead their special interests. Looking at this list, it is a list…

Forget TLDs, Keep Dot Suffix and Move On

• Comment posted Aug 22, 2009 5:03 am PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  How does your solution fix it?  It doesn't.  It makes it harder to find anything or anyone.

• Comment posted Aug 21, 2009 4:24 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  It seems like you've read a few articles about the domain name space and decided that there is this massive problem.  How many companies are called United or have United in them?  People get clever.  Companies get clever.  There is…

• Comment posted Aug 19, 2009 1:34 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Seems like a backwards and useless idea to be perfectly honest.  Just because everyone can't have the name they want doesn't mean the system is broken.  It's actually a very sensible way of locating things.  One identifier locates the same…

• Comment posted Aug 18, 2009 7:37 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  See, it doesn't make sense.  The internet is about being able to access information anywhere freely and storing information and navigating in this style is 'out of the box' but 'out of the box impractical.' A 'special logical number' also…

• Comment posted Aug 18, 2009 7:04 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  My question was how does one initially get anywhere?  What would one type?  I am trying to imagine how a user would actually navigate and how it would be more practical than the current system.

• Comment posted Aug 18, 2009 6:29 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  How would this work if I wanted to get to something directly?  I want to access Hotels.com (current site) what would I be required to know?  ICQ used a number, which in reality isn't any different from having sld.tld or…

Blame Yourself, Not ICANN

• Comment posted May 05, 2009 7:35 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Care to explain your points a bit more? 1.a. limited dialog between who?  Domainers and ICANN?  Domainers amongst themselves?  Domainers to some other party? 1.b.  Domain names aren't a science that you can 'build on the shoulders of giants from…

ICA Anti-Phishing Victory Might Be a Curse!

• Comment posted Nov 11, 2008 6:53 pm PST — by Kevin Ohashi
  For example, getting domain names onto companies' marketing radar may be more important than victory in a legal battle. A recent McKinsey Global survey of marketing channels doesn't even mention domain names. Perhaps because domain names are to marketing like…

Will .cn Become the New .com?

• Comment posted Aug 27, 2008 10:20 am PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Well said Stephane.  Like to add to the point that this is what .info did in the run up to contracts for .com/net being potentially reassigned to prove capacity to handle what .com/net would take.  Their 99 cent infos turned…

• Comment posted Aug 26, 2008 5:26 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Pretty simple to explain really.  here is an email from a chinese registrar I received: Dear Kevin Ohashi: Protect your brand, expand your Web presence, give your business credibility and much more - register a .cn domain for one LOW…

Click Fraud, Botnets and Parked Domains - All Inclusive

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 1:07 am PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  People cybersquat because typo domains get lots of natural traffic (real traffic of people mistyping) and they profit that way off pay per click. Click fraud people use bots and fraudulent methods to generate those clicks. From each's perspective, if…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 12:59 am PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  You think someone registers typo domains and then uses click fraud?  That is stupid.  Why put 2 targets on the back of your head when you can get away with only 1?  If I am going to perform click fraud…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 12:41 am PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  You clearly didn't read what he wrote then.  He has two separate ideas which aren't connected but he simply assumes there is, wrongfully.  Why should I listen to someone writing about something they aren't familiar with?  Maybe he understands security…

• Comment posted Jul 29, 2008 7:23 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Sorry, this article doesn't make sense.  You are connecting typosquatting with botnets.  Let's be upfront, domain parking is easy to get into and at most places you can simply choose the keywords.  'cybersquatting still does the magic by including the…

Best Approach for Appraising Domain Names

• Comment posted Nov 17, 2007 1:19 am PST — by Kevin Ohashi
  Thanks for responding, but I think you have dodged the questions. You believe it is viable, I would like to see what sort of approach you would use or do use and how accurate a model you can actually create. …

• Comment posted Nov 14, 2007 8:42 pm PST — by Kevin Ohashi
  Just because certain arguments didn't work for one example doesn't mean they do not work for another.  Domain valuation, is predicting it really the same as supreme court decisions? I would LOVE to see a strong model able to predict…

Squeegee Domains

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2007 6:27 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Suresh, Again, you miss the context of arguments. The First part is in response to the stocks.com example, a generic name.  I am not talking about typos here.  I wrote 'Trademark infringements are certainly a valid criticism.' They are a…

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2007 5:39 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  Suresh, First of all, I think your arguments have been all over the place and mostly been irrelevant.  But I will address them anyways: Whether the domain can or can’t be pried out of the domainer’s hands through a UDRP…

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2007 4:56 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  domain “monetizers’’ are the Internet’s squeegee men. I changed the topic?  Read your own post before you start your a reply.  If you can't keep track, I stated my post was self serving.  I own domain names and use parking…

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2007 4:17 pm PDT — by Kevin Ohashi
  John, What you fail to see is the many differences between your squeegee men and domain monetization.  You conviniently lump anyone monetizing domain names as typo squatters.  If I type in stocks.com did I mean something else?  No.  I meant…

Huge Increase in Spam in October Email

• Comment posted Dec 13, 2006 7:11 pm PST — by Kevin Ohashi
  The only people that would get beaten with a lead pipe are the ones that need to, There are alot of legitimate websites and ‘maybe’ there are more illegitimate websites. Thats ludicrous to think that dealing with this would have…