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ICANN Blows $4.6 Million In Stock Market

• Comment posted Feb 04, 2009 8:56 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  So is it safe to say that the point is better related to 'why' they have such a large amount of cash (equivalents) on hand and the potential inappropriateness of the investment strategy related to their mission? So a non…

• Comment posted Feb 04, 2009 7:13 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  George, thanks for the correction. I appreciate the assistance since it's somewhat hard to follow some of the logic that is being presented here treating ICANN's cash management functions as a special case. I'm not an investment advisor, nor am…

• Comment posted Feb 04, 2009 6:24 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  If the fund amount is (the cash equivalent of) $20.4m, and the loss is $4.6m, then the decline in portfolio value is roughly 22.54%. I'm not getting the logic around why this isn't in line with expectations and investment policy.…

Identity Theft of Root Name Servers, Reason Unknown

• Comment posted May 20, 2008 10:54 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  That said, there was agreement to announce the route and collect data for DITL between ICANN and EP.NET.  You did not do your homework and it appears there are “chinese walls” inside ICANN, where one party is not talking to…

• Comment posted May 20, 2008 4:43 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Hyperbole. Best Regards, Martin

Where are DNS Root Servers? See them on Google Maps

• Comment posted Sep 19, 2007 5:20 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Patrik Fältström said: Martin Hannigan said: We could argue this all day and disagree, but the point is factual. The Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America are woefully under served as far as root servers go and I disagree that being…

• Comment posted Sep 18, 2007 7:53 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Patrik Fältström said: Martin Hannigan said: The map demonstrates that Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean are woefully under-served. To some degree this map does not tell the truth either. A real map should list the servers based on network…

• Comment posted Sep 17, 2007 5:36 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Patrik has confirmed as many misconceptions as he's possibly debunked. Root server placement is not effective solely based on population, but requires consideration of infrastructure architecture. The map demonstrates that Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean are woefully under-served. Root…

Squeegee Domains

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2007 4:11 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  R. Meyer said: Very interesting thought. And, there are people in the corporate world that think the same thing about consultants. Drive by shooters too.

Researchers Explore Redesigning Internet Infrastructure from Scratch

• Comment posted Apr 18, 2007 2:35 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  I agree with Brett - look at the problems there are with getting people to move to IPv6 and that has very clear advantages. Why should anyone move to IPV6? What's wrong with IPV4?

Splitting the Root: It's Too Late

• Comment posted Apr 11, 2007 4:57 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  What I *do* care is that the *set* of name servers I choose in my resolver is the one actually used. If I choose ORSN, I want to use ORSN. If I choose ICANN, I want ICANN, *not* any alternative…

• Comment posted Apr 11, 2007 7:59 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  the *entire* purpose of this service is to deliver packets to the destination machine *I* choose (not to another one). How does a user choose which instance of a root server that they desire to use? I argue that they…

• Comment posted Apr 10, 2007 10:31 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Today there are no constraints on the main body of roots, or on any other roots, to refrain from data mining of the query stream and selling the resulting information. As far as I can tell, there are few, if…

• Comment posted Apr 10, 2007 3:51 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  My issue with not having a unfied root is that sometimes I want to know about what’s known inside some other realm of interest.  It’s a two way street, people inside a local realm may want global reach and that’s…

• Comment posted Apr 10, 2007 2:50 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  hijacking It's not hijacking. Networks are private entities. They can control their traffic how they see fit. If that wasn't the case, network operators would be hijacking other types of traffic as well through RBL's and blackhole routing. They aren't.…

Why I Voted for .XXX

• Comment posted Apr 09, 2007 2:30 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  One thing the statement seems to make clear. ICANN has policies and procedures that allow for creation of new TLD's and the proponents followed them and did meet all concerns and obligations. No doubt, politics play a role. But is…

Splitting the Root: It's Too Late

• Comment posted Apr 09, 2007 2:22 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  John, Thanks for the pointer to the IANA root zone file ftp site. I nearly forgot about that since out of sight, out of mind, with respect to Internic. You may know that the internic.net domain was transitioned to ICANN…

• Comment posted Apr 09, 2007 12:31 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  The real issue is not whether there is one single root but rather that those roots that are out are consistent with one another. I agree. ICANN ought to create a mechanism to distribute a root zone file to anyone…

How Many Bots? How Many Botnets?

• Comment posted Mar 09, 2007 7:13 am PST — by Martin Hannigan
  We should consider any machine without anti virus software to be basically compromised and instead count these hosts, shouldn't we? The larger vulnerability seems like a more accurate threat representation at this point.

Why I left the ICANN At Large Advisory Committee

• Comment posted Mar 09, 2007 7:10 am PST — by Martin Hannigan
  John, thank you for a job well done. I appreciated your representation. Best Regards, Martin Hannigan Plain-old Internet User

Attack Seriously Slows Two Internet Root Servers

• Comment posted Feb 20, 2007 8:40 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  Of course, it is difficult to operate a local copy. You have to be sure it is up-to-date, you have to monitor it, etc. Surely you aren't saying that only the current root server operators are qualified to operate reliable…

• Comment posted Feb 12, 2007 2:30 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  The main reason (but I advise everyone to read the original thread, I provided a link to the archive) is the risk of stalesness. Many operators will not check if the copy is properly refreshed. So, it will become one…

• Comment posted Feb 12, 2007 5:09 am PST — by Martin Hannigan
  There is a big difference between the hints file and the root zone file. Hints are checked at startup (at least by BIND), a local root zone file is not. There are been a long thread in the IETF DNS…

Earthquake in Asia, Spam Plummets

• Comment posted Dec 30, 2006 9:42 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  Hi John: Brett Glass, a journalist who runs a small rural ISP in Wyoming, noted that if the affected countries dealt more effectively with their spam, they might not well have needed all of the capacity they’d lost. I'm seeing…

ICANN Releases Beta TLD Verification Tool

• Comment posted Dec 05, 2006 5:36 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  Various issues were discovered in the code and we decided to pull it down while a revised version was prepared. No conspiracies here. No consipiracies assumed. All references linked to on the page were to the ITU conference. It was…

• Comment posted Dec 05, 2006 4:26 am PST — by Martin Hannigan
  It would be interesting if the tool was actually available. http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03dec06.htm There isn't a reason why the tool was retracted, but it must have something to do with the ITU. Anyone care to explain?

OpenDNS: It's Not SiteFinder for Obvious Reasons

• Comment posted Nov 06, 2006 10:16 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  Martin, "I can’t say I fully disagree that this is interesting waters we are walking down.  I feel strongly that users are the ultimate arbiter of what is the right thing to do.  That is why we made a specific…

• Comment posted Nov 06, 2006 5:49 am PST — by Martin Hannigan
  Mark, it's a few months later and some support of what OpenDNS is doing. I had little issue with the original, simple model, but with the recent obfuscation of wildcards from ccTLD registries, I think that they've treaded into extremely…

• Comment posted Jul 11, 2006 4:13 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  OpenDNS adds an extra feature set to recursive DNS. As long as legitimate answers aren't being altered, there's no correlation that I can see. NXDOMAIN is a legitimate answer, but in the case of the service, it's the answer that…

IT Managers in U.S. Still in No Hurry to Adopt IPv6

• Comment posted Jun 21, 2006 8:44 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Note, when I say consulting clients, I intend to mean enterprises typically amongst the fortune 1000. There is currently no reason for small to medium size business to spend the money. If they foresee some requirement for their busines to…

• Comment posted Jun 18, 2006 6:27 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  I'm recommending to my consulting clients that they acquire at least 1 native IPV6 circuit, turn it up, get it up and running under all existing v4 monitoring and provisioning systems and keep it supported for training while we see…

Domain Tasting Target of US Federal Cybersquatting Lawsuit

• Comment posted Jun 18, 2006 12:02 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Jothan, I agree with you that monitization is an excellent topic. I recently made this presentation at NANOG under their "lightning talk" series. This is a smaller part of a much larger piece of research and I hope that you…

Send a Message to NTIA

• Comment posted Jun 15, 2006 6:34 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Hi Suresh: I don't necessarily agree with Mr. Muellers immediate desires for internet governance, but I do agree that there needs to be as much participation as possible and I think this is a reasonable way to stimulate that. We're…

ICM Registry Appeals ICANN Decision Rejecting Proposal

• Comment posted Jun 03, 2006 6:06 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  The comment I can feel comfortable making is the one that surrounds ICM's actions. I'd like to know why they felt that they should go ahead and put their business plan in motion by building the registry back end prior…

Cat Loses Domain to Morgan Stanley

• Comment posted Jun 03, 2006 6:02 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Baroness Penelope argued in its submission that "the registration information is not false; there are an immense number of Domain Names registered by non human beings". That seems, IANAL, to be pretty clear as to who registered the domain. But…

Identity, ICANN, and Public Meetings

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 4:58 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Update: Unfortunately I was unable to attend the specific meeting the Dr. Twomey stopped by to talk to the ASO AC, but in that meeting it was reported that he was dealing with this issue. I am under the impression…

Antispam Effort Backfires Forcing Company to Shut Down

• Comment posted May 23, 2006 3:22 pm PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Ram, what happened there is called a "joe job", or an impersonation spam, a method that some folks use to "take revenge" on someone and cause them many problems. The speculation is that Blue Security or Skybox did not send…

• Comment posted May 23, 2006 3:18 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  Many of the facts of this story are distorted when presented by the folks at Blue Security(RIP). To start at the end, it appears they were shutdown by their funding partners. Within 12 hours of the announcement they were scrubbed…

.XXX and Conservative Groups

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 5:13 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  "They have a mandate to be a technical authority for domain names only." Chris, they are also mandated for IP addresses. The critical mass phraseology is "unique identifier". ICANN is far less in control of IP addressing than DNS, but…

Challenge to US Control of Domain Names

• Comment posted May 13, 2006 12:00 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  I'm not sure what everyone expects when 92% of the root server system is US controlled and not as designated by ICANN. Couple that with a large amount of ccTLD riding on top of root infrastructure, and you have domination.…

Identity, ICANN, and Public Meetings

• Comment posted Apr 06, 2006 6:24 am PDT — by Martin Hannigan
  I observed this repeatedly at the Vancouver ICANN meeting which I attended. This evening, on the ICANN ASO Address Council telephonic meeting bridge call, I made a motion to direct our Chair to object to this practice and I was…

Who Owns the Internet? See This Map

• Comment posted Mar 25, 2006 3:31 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  There are more interesting mappings of the Internet that include some of the work that the United States Government funded with CAIDA, and work by commercial entities like Renesys. You can view what we think is a better idea of…

Registrars Urge Rejection of VeriSign's .com Deal

• Comment posted Mar 16, 2006 11:36 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  ..and a small portion that didnt make it to original post is inserted at the very end: "To the best of my knowledge, Raimundo Beca and Mohamet Diop were appointed to the ICANN Board of Directors after a solicitation of…

• Comment posted Mar 16, 2006 10:39 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  In the article, there is a reference to a letter that Warren Adelman, GoDaddy's President, wrote to DoC Secretary Carlos Guitterez. http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/pressreleases/DOC.pdf In that letter, it is stated that ICANN Board member Raimundo Beca voted "no" with respect to the…

Security by Obscurity?

• Comment posted Feb 01, 2006 9:21 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  Looks like this security through obscurity is everywhere: InterNAP-Ken-Schmid-San-Jose-3.ge-0-1-0.106.ar1.SJC2.gblx.net INTERNAP controls the reverse resolution, not VeriSign. That's upstream. There's no value in hiding in the DNS. The IP Address is public. In fact, that resolution is inside of the INTERNAP…

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

• Comment posted Jan 16, 2006 8:44 pm PST — by Martin Hannigan
  Vint, What would be the impact on the demand for new TLD's if there were a mechanism or service like a "DO NOT REGISTER" system for trademark holders? -M<