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The US Department of Commerce, the DNS Root, and ICANN

• Comment posted Jul 31, 2005 1:54 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  Looks like Tiscali, a major ISP in Europe will be using Public-Root rather than ICANN starting in September. See their press release: http://www.tiscali.com/press/releases/10552825f1a.html

ICANN Needs a Good Root

• Comment posted Aug 01, 2005 8:56 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  It seems that Tiscali, a major ISP, will be using Public-Root on Sep 1, or so it seems: http://www.tiscali.com/press/releases/10552825f1a.html

About Those Root Servers

• Comment posted Aug 04, 2005 5:12 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  Johthan - Your collision argument is a straw man argument for a problem that does not exist. Apart from several problem child roots, who have no traction as far as usage, the Inclusive Namespace community DOES NOT create collisions. This…

Why I Am Participating in the ORSN Project

• Comment posted Oct 03, 2005 9:07 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  [continued from last post] 4. Providing the Internet Community with Choice: By allowing as many TLDs as there TLD operators, internet consumers have a choice. This choice is not only between TLDs, but also business and pricing models. Maintenance of…

• Comment posted Oct 03, 2005 8:51 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  [NOTE: My postings are my own opinions. Although I operate a Public-Root server, I do not speak for Public-Root, INAIC or UNIDT] Paul, Joe and I disagree about how a minor internal dispute within the Public-Root community should be resolved.…

• Comment posted Oct 03, 2005 4:56 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  Joe, Public-Root is not a corrupt organization. There are a few disputes within the organization, but in general, it is doing ok. UNIDT is the driving force behind the Public-Root concept and it has been the mover and shaker with…

WSIS and the Splitting of the Root

• Comment posted Nov 18, 2005 3:43 pm PST — by John Palmer
  I think that significance of domain names as identifiers of personal and corporate entities is QUICKLY vanishing. Look at how most internet users use the net. If they want to find something, the go to Google or another search engine…

Ask Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Jan 19, 2006 4:14 pm PST — by John Palmer
  s/Vince/Vint/ Sorry, typed too fast and didn't see the type-o

• Comment posted Jan 19, 2006 4:10 pm PST — by John Palmer
  Hi Vince: Here is my question: When is ICANN going to stop limiting free trade and commerce by failing to recommend the immediate listing of all Inclusive Namespace TLDs in the USG Root? When is ICANN going to recognize that…

Answers from Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Mar 14, 2006 4:21 pm PST — by John Palmer
  While I kind of expected it, I still need to point out that none of the really hard questions that I asked were answered by Vint Cerf. Only the softball ones.

Report on DNS Amplification Attacks

• Comment posted Mar 24, 2006 4:02 pm PST — by John Palmer
  That's another aspect of the problem, and perhaps the more dangerous to internet freedom and that is demonizing all ORNs. There is a legitimate reason for ORNs to exist. The reason is to allow users whose ISPs don't support the…

• Comment posted Mar 23, 2006 6:27 pm PST — by John Palmer
  We need to be careful in proposing a suggested solution. Inclusive Namespace roots provide public resolvers for users whose ISPs are too stubborn or dumb to provide their users with choice. Customers of such ISPs can simply decide to use…

How Domain Name Traffic Testing/Tasting Works

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2006 7:47 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  An example of what competition in TLDs can do: We only charge $5.95/year for domain registration. When you have a world (the Inclusive Namespace) that has 15,000-20,000 TLDs, all of which can determine their own business models, pricing competition is…

Thoughts on ICANN Turning Down .XXX

• Comment posted May 12, 2006 10:24 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  What are they talking about? .XXX already exists: %dig ns xxx @g.public-root.com ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> ns xxx @g.public-root.com ; (1 server found) ;; global options:  printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 65 ;;…

Challenge to US Control of Domain Names

• Comment posted May 13, 2006 12:15 am PDT — by John Palmer
  Having some authority that keeps a master copy of the list of TLDs and handles nameserver updates to the root zone file, oversees the technical stability of the root servers, etc is a very good thing to have and thats…

ICANN Violating Free Enterprise?

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 1:58 am PDT — by John Palmer
  Don't know how long it will last but I have corrected some of the errors in the WIKI item about ICANN and have included additional information exposing the organization for what it really is.

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 1:36 am PDT — by John Palmer
  And why do you think Wiki is the authoritative cat's meow about anything? Anyone can submit information to Wiki and it isn't checked for accuracy. The US DOC never intended nor charged ICANN with setting policy, only to be a…

• Comment posted May 22, 2006 9:11 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  All I did in my post was to post an article critical of ICANN. Is it against the policy of this board to criticize ICANN? Who determines what gets deleted? Also, you go and delete posts and don't even send…

• Comment posted May 22, 2006 6:16 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  Ahaa - you understand the issue well! And the thats a good question - "Why?" Answer: ICANN's constituents are not the internet users nor participants in the DNS industry (actually only a few). They serve the four monopolies that have…

Possible Final Vote on XXX Next Week

• Comment posted Mar 25, 2007 6:26 pm PDT — by John Palmer
  This kind of nonsense of letting a group of religious fanatics dictate the content of the root zone has got to stop.  Thats why we need organizations like the TLDA. The Top Level Domain Association Inc. is a trade association…