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European Commission in Favour of New IANA Contract - Disapproves of US Only Bidding Process

• Comment posted Nov 17, 2011 5:05 am PST — by Gary Osbourne
  I wrote this on icannwatch back in 2004. http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/15/2010245&tid;= plus ca change. ~g

Google Removes All Sites Under .CO.CC Over Security Concerns

• Comment posted Jul 07, 2011 9:34 pm PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  I don't really see the fuss about this. Many search engines have used similar in their algoriths for many years. OTOH their was serious discussion amongst senior netadmins way back about 1996 to remove *.tw (Taiwan's ccTLD) entirely from their…

Speculation and Investment in Domain Names

• Comment posted Jun 04, 2010 1:06 am PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  I cannot believe that such snakeoil is still going on. I worked for a Sillycon Valley startup back in the nineties which as a sideline 'owned' some very good .com names. I was given the task to divest some of…

Why New TLDs Don't Matter

• Comment posted Jul 08, 2008 10:58 pm PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  If one gets a non-resolving name one doesn't necessarily get one's 'favorite' search engine by default. SFAIK with IE7 one not surprisingly gets Microsoft's own live.com search engine, with FireFox one gets Google. The rest of your article is bang-on.…

Are Botnets Run by Spy Agencies?

• Comment posted May 15, 2008 9:07 am PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  It gets worse, what if it was organized crime, instead of or in addition to spy agencies, engaging in such activities, which of course they are. Spy agencies are normally engaged in criminal activity too, so that's not what makes…

Canada's New Policy Will Privatize Whois Data for .ca Domains

• Comment posted Apr 22, 2008 9:12 am PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  The Read Full Story link to External Source at the end of the article actually points to an internal link of trademarkblog.ca which seems to belong to Clark Wilson LLP "BCs [SIC] Law Firm for Business". Not surprisingly, these IP…

CERN's Grid 10,000 Times Faster than Broadband

• Comment posted Apr 08, 2008 8:35 am PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  Jeroen wrote: What is this article doing on CircleID? The 'article' isn't ascribed to an author other than 'CircleID Reporter' which normally, as here, means it is a (usually partial) feed from elsewhere. Does Google News make editorial changes to…

15 Years Ago Joel Furr Referred to Unsolicited Bulk Messages as 'Spam'

• Comment posted Apr 02, 2008 9:25 am PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  I never cease to be amazed at the numerous indigenous cultures around the world who can pass on stories orally (often not having a system of writing) for centuries with almost no change. Now we've got this digital internet thing…

Circumstantial Evidence of Yahoo's CAPTCHA Being Broken

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2008 10:48 pm PST — by Gary Osbourne
  Over the past few weeks I've had a few (not all) of the CircleID Weekly Wrap newsletters show up in my yahoo.com email Bulk (yahoo thinks it's likely spam) folder. Additionally, all of my weekly The Register news headlines wind…

eTLDs? ICANN to Take Bids for Common Extensions as TLDs

• Comment posted Feb 15, 2008 8:51 am PST — by Gary Osbourne
  Has ICANN lost its mind, that is, the mind that hitherto has been under the control of their Intellectual Property puppetmasters? Adobe Systems has patents on .pdf (portable documentformat). I doubt they'll just bow out gracefully to someone else receiving…

Domain Tasting to Go Away for Real This Time

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2008 11:51 pm PST — by Gary Osbourne
  @John Berryhill, who wrote: You seem to have conflated domain tasting and drop catching. I didn't intend to conflate the two. I would argue that there is some overlap, but as your defininition of domain tasting as only going after…

• Comment posted Feb 03, 2008 11:47 pm PST — by Gary Osbourne
  @John Levine While I agree that .org frontrunning fell precipitously, I don't think we can just generalize this across the board. First, it was .org after all, not as desirable as .com/.net. Second, a lot of runners probably just moved…

• Comment posted Jan 31, 2008 9:35 pm PST — by Gary Osbourne
  Suresh, if you don't know of one Jeffrey A Williams please read the outdated but still damning FAQ on him here, I guess someone better update that if he's going to spam the invaluable circleid.com. In what must be close…

• Comment posted Jan 30, 2008 9:06 am PST — by Gary Osbourne
  I fail to see what all the positive fuss is about. Ok, so there's no more domain tasting (or less anyway, see PIR's Org. attempt) and presumably no NSI gumming up the works (though they do know how to file…

Dot Travel: The Rise and Fall of a Brilliant Concept

• Comment posted Jan 19, 2008 4:53 am PST — by Gary Osbourne
  Edward Hasbrouck, the Practical Nomad, author of a number of travel books and world traveller (he's on an around the world trip at the moment), has followed the story of .travel since before the beginning, this being probably a near…

ICANN, WSIS and the Making of a Global Civil Society - Part III

• Comment posted Jun 08, 2005 7:00 pm PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  In answer to Joe Sims second post, I did not miss the Carl Bildt working group, which I submit wouldn't have been created were it not for pressure from some within the USG including the Small Business Administration. When I…

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2005 5:14 pm PDT — by Gary Osbourne
  Joe Sims' description of the ICANN experiment in direct democracy as a 'disaster' requires a longer look. First, ICANN (of which Joe Sims has been an integral part since before the beginning, despite not being staff, appointed or elected) has…