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Typosquatted Domain Names Pose Plenty of Risk But Surprisingly Little Malware

• Comment posted Dec 20, 2011 7:26 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  The study also found that DoubleClick (Google) had a revenue relation with 37% of the study sites. The distribution of its competitors in the PPC universe was discovered in the study site sample unfortunately not stated.

ICANN Successfully Tiptoes Through Political Minefield With New TLD Applicant Guidebook

• Comment posted May 13, 2011 5:37 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Krista, You make several claims in your (process only) comment on the Joint Applicant Support Working Group work product. Upon what facts do you base your first claim, that the work product was submitted directly (your emphasis) by the JAS…

ICANN's Tokyo Meeting Provides a Little More Clarity on the New gTLD Program

• Comment posted Sep 02, 2010 2:28 am PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  It occurs to me that rather than continue to kvetch about the absence of a certification program for backend registry operators, with all the benefits that has to offer existing RSPs, and the potential it has to offer ICANN during…

DNS RPZ, Malicious Domains... Bring Your Own Policy. Dress Casual.

• Comment posted Aug 04, 2010 1:15 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Welcome to CircleID Garth. Start with Verisign's periodic domain report for coarse data. The distinction you (and to be fair, most of the domainer benefited parties) offer between "typo-squat" and "malicious" is beneficial to domainers. I think correctly characterizing the…

Taking Back the DNS

• Comment posted Aug 03, 2010 4:13 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  hi john, it is entirely conceivable, given the discussion of reputation of address blocks, and therefor of routing, on nanog, involving paul and others, that a domain may "resolve" yet not "route" by policy. this in addition to a domain…

DNS RPZ, Malicious Domains... Bring Your Own Policy. Dress Casual.

• Comment posted Aug 03, 2010 12:30 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  If you start with the assumption that "life" is more likely to be the target of resolution requests than "0000", and that resolution requests are not uniformly distributed over the set of all strings formed by four letters, digits and…

Towards a DNSCERT Definition

• Comment posted Jun 22, 2010 6:21 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  The room was filled with cc and g operators, non-dns security people, some ICANN staff, and the discussion was lively, interesting, but not yet conclusive of any particular thesis concerning next steps.

VeriSign Leaves the Security Certificate Business

• Comment posted May 25, 2010 7:07 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  The GNSO-VI-Feb10 WG mailing list is public, so I don't need to self-quote. Of course there really isn't any reason that all the servers servicing .com need to be run by the same contractor. Multiple contractors would increase diversity and…

• Comment posted May 25, 2010 6:22 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Which contract renewal moment, for which registry, during the past decade, has been even remotely in doubt?

Will Stonewalling on .xxx Be Beckstrom's First Big Mistake?

• Comment posted Feb 22, 2010 10:46 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Kieren, To claim there was no threat overlooks prior use, and institutional awareness, you really have to be making the claim that Ira never threatened Jon, over a far more nuanced issue of what was in the IANA zone, and…

• Comment posted Feb 22, 2010 6:15 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Milton, We don't usually agree about the polarity of gravity, however on this issue, the substitution of unstated (and state-directed) policies for stated policies, the outcome of Consensus Policy Development, there was an error. I do wish you'd take the…

Why ICANN Nairobi Security Concerns May Be a Blessing in Disguise

• Comment posted Feb 14, 2010 3:34 am PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  i recommend reading africacomments.org for more insight. h/t Maxcrat commenting at wampum.

• Comment posted Feb 13, 2010 8:09 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Kiren, Reductions in the numbers of general, open meetings, must increase the effect of the meetings which are other than general and open, such as the Increasing Institutional Confidence Consultations, in Geneva and elsewhere, the DC Consultation on the Draft…

Swiss Among World Leaders in Enabling DNSSEC

• Comment posted Feb 10, 2010 7:39 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  We've the same problem with folks thinking that .org was the first gTLD.

Las Vegas City Council to Debate the Support of .vegas Domain

• Comment posted Feb 06, 2010 6:35 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  need i write more? if lvnv and/or clarkco put out an rfp they will get bids, and it is unlikely that $1.50/domain-name/year defines the high end of municipal revenues.

TLDs of Vacant or Close to Vacant Places in the World

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2010 2:28 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Dear intrepid CircleID Reporter, Please don't post fluff. If you want to run stories for a paying customer (paid media), please do, it is your blog after all. If you want keep running earned media, people with earned media have…

gTLDs: Why Are Your Overarching Issues Not Relevant In IDN ccTLDs?

• Comment posted Dec 09, 2009 11:31 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  from a CORE technical standard for the registries we operate: "Configuration changes always passes the four-eyes principle." 1k of deltas on the . zone in a year is 3 times the four-eyes principle, every day. now do the math, staff…

• Comment posted Dec 07, 2009 1:30 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  howdy richard, (a) notice that you are asserting that root scaling for the cctld idn ft is not an issue, the point of my response to adrian, and (b) you are not addressing the rate of change problem. assuming the…

• Comment posted Dec 05, 2009 10:18 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  I look at 40 applicants (out of some 250) for one or more (but not much more) scripts each and from that queue of ready operators (at various dates) I don't see a root scaling issue, whether the root is…

Post Delegation Dispute: A Once Supportable Concept Proposed by the IRT is Now Unsupportable

• Comment posted Oct 08, 2009 7:51 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Jeff, Concern over process is not the same as concern over conclusion. The IRT could have been a midnight coven of witches who concluded that ICANN must make me Queen of the May. I might be pleased by the conclusion,…

• Comment posted Oct 08, 2009 4:37 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Jeff, We're not bothered by the issue, we went from strong pre-del validation to post after two years with a registry we operate with only two DRP items or .5 x 10^^-5 DRP rate. We were also excluded from the…

Who Needs More TLDs?

• Comment posted Jul 02, 2009 6:46 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  I was commenting on John Levin's post.

• Comment posted Jul 02, 2009 4:28 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  John, I'm not interested in the search vs lookup comparison, but in your follow-up would you either distinguish between for-profit models such as .com after the competitive bid that moved the nic from SRI to the remote anticeedent of VGRS,…

Companies Trademarking Possible Future Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Jul 01, 2009 12:58 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  One of the funnier public comments was HP's. They'd like .hp because ... Does anyone think that the iso3166/MA is constrained from allocating any alpha-2 pair (other than aa, qm-qz, xa-xz and zz, for which it is self-constrained) by any…

The Proxy Fight for Iranian Democracy

• Comment posted Jun 30, 2009 2:05 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Jim, This post and the several previous are very insightful. I commend you and the whole rensys crew for your careful analytic work. Eric

Analysis of Domain Names Registered Across Multiple Existing TLDs and Implications for New gTLDs

• Comment posted Feb 07, 2009 3:44 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Mike, The .berlin proposal is a municipal or city proposal, not a geographic regional proposal. The same is true for .paris, as proposed by Sébastien Bachollet, and for .nyc, as proposed by Tom Lowenhaupt. All have non-ignorable public administration policy…

First gTLD Signed: Dot Gov

• Comment posted Feb 07, 2009 1:49 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Thank you Patrick. If we were second, or third, we'd still be quite pleased that .museum is signed, and Carl's comment upthread is spot on. See you in Mexico. For the general CircleID reader, I'm the CTO of CORE, which…

Unreasonable ccTLD Registry Price Increases!

• Comment posted Sep 05, 2008 8:09 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Jackie, So, it is not just people in the country of the ccTLD which are affected when registries raise their prices unreasonably but also people around the world who have registered domains in those ccTLDs for their websites. There may…

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

• Comment posted Aug 25, 2008 5:26 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Kurt's name is "Pritz". The rubble of English, Dutch and German in my head is guilty. My fingers too share the blame.

The Anti-Phishing Consumer Protection Act of 2008

• Comment posted Mar 07, 2008 5:33 am PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Reading S.2661 is depressing. Here's the worst crud from the "Findings". I put a call into Olympia Snowe's Portland office this morning. (2) Phishing e-mails are becoming more sophisticated by having malicious spyware attachments that once opened covertly record the…

Wall Street Journal Article on Whois Privacy

• Comment posted May 11, 2006 3:35 pm PDT — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  Ram, I ran on a platform that registrars can, and should do just what Suresh advocates, and lost. The problem isn't dumb small registrars, its that ICANN's budget dance was far too important for registrars to work on anything else,…

.NET Bid Contenders

• Comment posted Jan 22, 2005 11:59 pm PST — by Eric Brunner-Williams
  It has been a given that VGRS will submit a defensive bid, with or without partners, and that Afilias and NeuStar would submit bids, also with and without, for .org and .net. The only things interesting is whether the bid…