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New Paper Discusses Global City TLD's in the Public Interest

• Comment posted Sep 11, 2007 9:21 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  Dirk Krischenowski said: Dear Jeroen, there's a clear and reasonable answer on the question why a City.xy is not as sexy as a .city. We had a lot of talks with city representatives, not only in Berlin. Is that your…

• Comment posted Sep 07, 2007 1:46 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  And the main question which is not answered is: why is berlin.de. worse than berlin. Or did the people who are cooking this up forget about this thing called hierarchy because of the flashing dollar/euro signs in their eyes?

ICANN Tests IDN TLD (Live!)

• Comment posted Sep 08, 2007 8:53 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  William Tan said: The two paragraphs above almost contradict each other; if people don't type in DNS names, there's probably no need to internationalize it. Simple question: are people going to type punycode, yes or no? If no, then why…

• Comment posted Sep 06, 2007 6:46 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  It's just probably me, but I really don't understand WHY this has to be inserted into the Root Zone (.) ? Delegations for .cn/.th/.<every other country> has already been made for a long long time, and it seems that this…

More on WHOIS Privacy

• Comment posted Sep 08, 2007 8:35 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  John Berryhill said: And there is EXACTLY where the problem is: it’s all about the money. Well, some of us are not independently wealthy, and must work for a living. Like somebody in the 'western countries' will notice 50EUR/USD a…

• Comment posted Sep 06, 2007 7:01 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  John Berryhill said: Hey, let's penalize the registrars if 4 out of a million registrants provide false contact data.... And there is EXACTLY where the problem is: it's all about the money. As long as registrars can get away with…

Local ".city" TLDs as an Opportunity for City Portals

• Comment posted Oct 05, 2007 9:55 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  Gee and what is the difference between www.tax.city.tld and www.tax.city? The only difference I see is that www.tax.city can be the tax site for that city in the US or for that same city in Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, China…

In Praise of OpenDNS and a Wii Factoid

• Comment posted Apr 05, 2008 11:54 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  As I have a Wii, I finally checked how much "IPv6" is actually in there. The only thing I could find it doing though was that it is doing an AAAA query, though after an A query when going to…

• Comment posted Oct 31, 2007 2:06 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  David A. Ulevitch said: > You should be lobbying for us to setup a POP near you and to support the features you need. As 'near me' is quite a broad concept (I am moving around between Dublin.ie, Gouda.nl and…

• Comment posted Oct 23, 2007 11:14 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  That 2012 date is mentioned in an individual draft which is not even remotely going near the RFC queue. That is like me stating hear and now that you should have had IPv6 a hundred years ago… Anything can be…

Getting Rid of Whois

• Comment posted Oct 31, 2007 1:45 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  With the whois for domains (thus not IP space) only containing "DomainsByProxy" and other similar setups and also a lot of bogus information, not even mentioning the fact that a couple of registries don't even allow one to properly add…

Study Shows German Internet Users Prefer Memorable Domain Names for Cities and Regions

• Comment posted Nov 02, 2007 9:27 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  Short summary: Please stay out of the roots if you want something to be done in GERMANY (.de) instead of the WORLD (.) Technical solution for the people requiring this behaviour: echo "search de" >>/etc/resolv.conf as for the text: Oh…

ICANN CEO: "High Politics" Fueling IGF Debates

• Comment posted Nov 13, 2007 8:01 pm PST — by Jeroen Massar
  There is a very simple way for doing TLD's in other names than English. First off all all the software needs to support IDN anyway. They thus convert what is written on screen into punycode. Punycode is actually just ASCII.…

IPv6: Do as I Say or Do as I Do?

• Comment posted Feb 11, 2008 9:37 am PST — by Jeroen Massar
  Actually there is a killer application and you mentioned it already a couple of times in your application: VoIP. Or did you get that nice VoIP hardware box working behind a NAT!? ;) Yes, with tricks like having a local…

IPv6 Over Satellite: Pie in the Sky?

• Comment posted Feb 28, 2008 9:47 am PST — by Jeroen Massar
  IABG press report from 2004: "IABG is pushing the new Internet standard "IPv6 via Satellite"" See: http://www.iabg.de/presse/... That is 4 years ago. It exists and is there and is being used :)

Are Domain Name Registrars Ready for IPv6?

• Comment posted Apr 04, 2008 6:48 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  We have been trying to gather all IPv6-glue able and also the registrars which don't have it yet and possibly with their status of when/if it does come at: http://www.sixxs.net/faq/dns/?faq=ipv6glue Of course, as stated on the page, updates are always…

CERN's Grid 10,000 Times Faster than Broadband

• Comment posted Apr 07, 2008 8:03 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  Wow, due note that the article in question doesn't match up with reality at all and the 'journalist' who wrote it should probably go to school and then maybe try to learn something about networks, The Internet, The World Wide…

Proposal for .sport, a New Top-Level Domain

• Comment posted Jun 17, 2008 11:15 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  This whole "idea" of extra TLD's has only one really useful thing: earning money from some virtual bits. There is absolutely no advantage for the end-user to have http://www.football.com or http://www.football.sport or http://www.soccer.sport (which one is the one you want…

Google's Cerf Offers Alternate Strategy to Metered Broadband Billing

• Comment posted Aug 05, 2008 11:51 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  That is not the problem at hand here. The real problem is that the Provider is selling a service and stating "it is 50mbits" and it actually can only do 10mbit if actually used. The problem thus is that they…

• Comment posted Aug 05, 2008 11:43 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  And actually, the Australian system is pretty good, as you pay for what you get. The problem for .au is though that you don't have so much transit links down under to the rest of the world, and the links…

• Comment posted Aug 05, 2008 11:37 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  Cable == shared medium then onto ISP network DSL == own copper to the DSLAM (typically the closest phone exchange) then onto ISP network This is why P2P 'hurts' for Cable providers, both upstream and downstream for the whole neighborhood…

• Comment posted Aug 05, 2008 9:41 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  The main reason why access ISP don't want to go anywhere in this area is simply because they are selling oversubscribed services. When you now get a 20mbit service, you are actually only getting a 1mbit version, in the hope…

IPv6 Considered a Problem by Some Users

• Comment posted Aug 20, 2008 6:58 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  AICCU Binary Mac OS X i386 binary can be downloaded from http://www.sixxs.net/archive/sixxs/aiccu/mac/aiccu-mac.exe, you will still need to put a config file in /etc/aiccu.conf (see http://www.sixxs.net/tools/aiccu/ for an example) and install TUN/TAP driver if you want AYIYA though. This does avoid…

• Comment posted Aug 20, 2008 6:21 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  Yes, I am very aware that the packaging of AICCU has quite some open holes which need to be resolved for quite a number of users to make it much easier in use. Windows is still the largest user base…

• Comment posted Aug 09, 2008 6:59 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  IMHO 6to4 is a pain, as the setups of these are not verified and nobody actually using IPv6 checks if they are working properly. As there are so many things that can go wrong with 6to4 (both the IPv4 and…

• Comment posted Aug 09, 2008 6:54 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  In time, just like you upgraded from your good old 28.8k modem to a 56k one and then to DSL, you will be upgrading to something that supports IPv6. Most likely not today, but in time you will. As for…

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 10:54 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  The user can use a different DNS server as a caching resolver. OpenDNS for instance works like a charm. Thus people having DNS issues (because of IPv6 lookups) should definitely change their DNS servers. Reporting the problem to the owner…

• Comment posted Aug 08, 2008 8:01 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  The problem is indeed with DNS, but not with the connectivity ;) From the small write-up I did on wikipedia to stop that FUD also from spreading there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Disabling_IPv6_because_of_incompatibilities 8<------------------------------------------------------------------- Disabling IPv6 because of incompatibilities Various forums on the Internet…

Google Further Expanding the Undersea Communications Cable System

• Comment posted Aug 27, 2008 7:46 am PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  You mean that rumor that they are building an IX, another shared coop with other companies.

• Comment posted Aug 26, 2008 5:04 pm PDT — by Jeroen Massar
  "With a few exceptions, SJC consortium and Unity are reported to have the same members which include Google, Bharti, SingTel, KDDI and Global Transit." Thus clearly not only Google. People do hopefully realize that the other players are big transit…