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How to Stop Spam

• Comment posted Jul 21, 2006 7:43 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  The biggest problem so far is that the cure has been worse than the disease. Programs like sorbs.net block or flag legitimate domain names because some spammer was on the same IP block. The owner of the legitimate domains had…

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

• Comment posted Jan 21, 2006 1:43 am PST — by Chris McElroy
  What is the exact reason that companies cannot introduce sTLDs without interference from ICANN except to make sure they are technically able to introduce their sTLD? Chris McElroy http://www.WhoLetTheBlogOut.com

• Comment posted Jan 19, 2006 1:49 pm PST — by Chris McElroy
  Are you sure you mean Brazil? Sounded a lot like what's happening in the US. I don't mean to make light of your concerns, they are serious. It's just that you wrote "using monopoly as a tool to succeed preventing…

• Comment posted Jan 17, 2006 7:30 pm PST — by Chris McElroy
  Nice to hear from you Chris. Your persistance is amazing. .web should have been approved long ago. Chris McElroy http://www.newsandmediablog.com

• Comment posted Jan 17, 2006 1:49 am PST — by Chris McElroy
  Hello, Vint. You've probably seen my issue in the mailing list, but just got too busy to respond there. I hope you will here. If you go to http://thingsthatjustpissmeoff.blogspot.com/2006/01/icann-in-violation-of-free-enterprise.html or http://thingsthatjustpissmeoff.blogspot.com/2006/01/icann-creating-monopoly-in-domain.html or http://thingsthatjustpissmeoff.blogspot.com/2006/01/icann-to-consider-new-tlds.html you can quickly get up to speed…

WIPO Crowing Again About "Cybersquatting"

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 4:51 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Suresh you asked, "How good an idea is it, though, to point at individual bad judgements, and use that to criticize this?" And without using specific examples, just how would you go about pointing out flaws in the system? Thats…

A Day Which Will Live in Infamy: ICANN Board Approves VeriSign Settlement

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 4:17 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  James you said "Running a business and/or NGO/NOP is never about proving a point. Settlement is always cheaper and faster for all involved." Not if you believe in what you are doing and that what you are doing is right.…

Finally the .com Discussion is Over...

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 4:11 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Veni if you bothered to read the ga mailing list even just once or twice you would have seen that Karl, Danny, Sotiris, Jeffsey, and many others put forth proposals and solutions and none of them would have benefitted from…

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

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 5:11 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Why is it that whenever I get pissed off at ICANN issues that my fingers get fat and I can't spell anything? Excuse the misspelling above. "I never misspell, I create brand new words." Chris McElroy AKA NameCritic

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 5:03 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Q7: What about future generations of users and future businesses that are not even on the web yet? How long will their domain names have to be since ICANN has limited namespace to a few generic sounding TLDs, com, net,…

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 4:42 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Back to you Vint. I appreciate you addressing my questions and you did it in such a way as to not let on that they weren't quite anbswered. Thank you. Q5: Since ICANN is supposed to foster competition, how does…

Finding Good ICANN Board Candidates

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 3:44 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Returning to the elections that were promised is the only valid way to choose new Board Members. If the public is dissatified with the current Board Members how can they be satified with letting them choose the next set of…

Fighting Over the Scraps from ICANN's Table

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 3:38 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  What is sad is the fact that ICANN squashes any ability for the public to participate and even when it had some mechanisms in place it ignored the consensus and went the way it wanted to anyway. I've been involved…

Thoughts on ICANN Turning Down .XXX

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 4:11 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Veni. Again ICANN should not be deciding policy. They are supposed to only decide if the company that wants to create a new TLD is technically capable of doing so. Why is that so difficult for everyone to understand? Social,…

EFF and Its Use of Propaganda: Could Karl Rove do better? Probably

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 3:46 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  The problem is it seems you trust AOL to use it in the beneficial way you think and hope they will. Corporations like AOL say all the time, "Trust Us" it will benefit you. We are doing it for your…

Search Engines and Registrars Getting Creative with Whois Database?

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 6:45 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Another question is how using whois information is going to work with whois privacy becoming an issue. Is it only going to be private to the public but accessible to Google and GoDaddy, etc.?

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 5:20 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  I have to agree with Ram. Using whois, as it is now, to establish reputation, historical data, or anything else seems moot. The idea that a domain name registered for 2-5 years means it is more valid than one that…

.XXX and Conservative Groups

• Comment posted Jun 02, 2006 2:51 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Good point Ram. I think .tel was a ridiculous addition but I'm for introducing new TLDs. But with dot xxx they talked of all the porn websites being moved onto that TLD. Does that mean I have to get a…

• Comment posted Jun 02, 2006 4:43 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Hi Brett. I haven't even looked at .pro. I was just going by what was said on the thread earlier. The point was dot pro isn't the answer to the shortage of good domain names.

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 3:16 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  It would get confusing. With “.pro” it’s all simple, unless you follow their system of subdomains which I think allows for things like “http://[somebody].laywer.pro” ... that has it’s uses too, and can do everything your TLD system would allow all…

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 5:28 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  True. My post was intended to point out that ICANN is a technical body and political issues should not be their concern. Chris McElroy AKA NameCritic

• Comment posted May 18, 2006 3:16 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  All good points! 1. No dot xxx would not affect the porn industry except the ability to get some new domain names for more porn websites. 2. ICANN was way out of their area of ability and purpose. They are…

ICANN Violating Free Enterprise?

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 3:25 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  All the newer TLDs put together make up less than 8% of all the TLDs registered. Because the tlds they have approved are not commercially viable. Give me dot realestate and I'll sell more domain names than dot net ever…

• Comment posted May 23, 2006 3:34 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  I was answering the post wes made mike. But Mike you make a good point and I agree 100%. There are already ways to deal with bad business management. ICANN doesn't need to be involved at all in that.

• Comment posted May 23, 2006 3:29 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  As much as anywhere really. ICANN wasn't set up as a policy review board, nor a financial advisor, nor an accountability board, nor a public policy creator. It was set up to ensure technical stability. Therefore they are not in…

• Comment posted May 22, 2006 6:58 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  I don't think circleid.com will take it down. They moderated my article and decided to allow it. Good discussions are good business. You are right that ICANN has been captured by big business and was always part of the US…

• Comment posted May 22, 2006 2:10 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  I have one where I'm giving them away. It's a great place to talk about ICANN. LOL. Seriously, most subdomains are given away, but if you had a real good domain name it is possible to sell subdomains. It makes…

• Comment posted May 22, 2006 4:29 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  It looks like anyone who wants to be in the TLD business will have to sell subdomains because ICANN isn't going to approve new TLDs that are commercially viable. Something stinks in ICANN land and people are restraining trade illegally.

XXX Litigation Looms

• Comment posted May 22, 2006 9:31 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Hi Milton. Unfortunately lawsuits seem to be the only thing that might get ICANN's attention.

New York Passing New Domain Name Law

• Comment posted May 26, 2006 6:15 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Should have edited that but it's a little late to care about misspelled words. Besides, I believe there are typo domainers that follow every post I make so they can figure out what domain names to register.

• Comment posted May 26, 2006 6:13 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  There are other articles here explaining my take on that. There are several solutions offered by various people. 1. Creat TLDs that match the classes that trademarks are registered under. This way a company with a trademark would be entitled…

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 7:23 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  If you want to put up a website about someone you can always get bettylittlewritesbadlaws.com or bettylittlesucks.com etc. If you like the person you can register bettylittleiswarmhearted.com or Ilikebettylittle.com But in my opinion when you register just their name it's…

Questioning Parked Domains and Google AdNonSense

• Comment posted May 31, 2006 6:35 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  Yeah I do miss the gophers! And you are right, the users will migrate and from what I read in forums and I'm not talking about techie or webmaster forums, many people are moving toward MSN, ASK, and others. Never…

• Comment posted May 31, 2006 6:01 am PDT — by Chris McElroy
  I hope you are right Ram. But about the big greedy corporation thing, think walmart. Not policing their tos is doing more than hurting their program, it's hurting the Internet in general. You can hardly do research on the web…

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 10:24 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  There is a thread at webpro world that is related to this about the way Yahoo Publisher is not policing their own ToS either. http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=63887 is the thread where it is explained further.

• Comment posted May 25, 2006 6:55 pm PDT — by Chris McElroy
  I'm all for making money for the website you are operating. I have no problem with a bsuiness making a fair profit at all. I have a problem with people who do not offer anything content-wise skimming of the whole…

Network Solutions Responds to Front Running Accusations

• Comment posted Feb 29, 2008 7:36 pm PST — by Chris McElroy
  The 20 cent fee will assure the practice continues, but now ICANN will also profit from it.

More on the Front Running Class Action Suit

• Comment posted Feb 29, 2008 7:00 pm PST — by Chris McElroy
  Nice of you to link to an article and blog that one disgruntled employee wrote. Of course the negative information helps you forward the points you are trying to make in the article. Since I have been doing business on…