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Hope for Human Resources with .Jobs Domain

• Comment posted May 16, 2006 4:28 pm PDT — by Rob Larkins
  There's another important point noone else mentioned. Different organizations can have the same SLD (second level domain) with different TLDs. This is intentional, as it increases the variety of domains that that can be registered and keeps groups/individuals from crowding…

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

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 2:10 am PDT — by Rob Larkins
  I can't comment on the DearAOL compaign or the EFF's position on it generally because I haven't looked into it, but I can confidently say that current spam filtering technologies seem to be growing increasingly more "dangerous" to safe mail.…

Search Engines and Registrars Getting Creative with Whois Database?

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 1:45 am PDT — by Rob Larkins
  The internet has a tradition of being a free and open society. As such I'd like to see the WHOIS database remain open to the public in some form, but I agree that something needs to be done to discourage…

.XXX and Conservative Groups

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 1:30 am PDT — by Rob Larkins
  dot plumber, dot electrician, dot lawyer or dot attorney, dot cpa, dot appliances, etc. would all be commercially viable TLDs yet ICANN’s BoD says this would be confusing. Yes it would to anyone who doesn’t know how to use a…

ICANN Violating Free Enterprise?

• Comment posted Jun 01, 2006 12:49 am PDT — by Rob Larkins
  I'm critical of the TLDs ICANN has been approving but I don't think running TLDs the same way we run SLDs is the answer. For people who think that ICANN approves too few TLDs, think about this: letting anyone register…

Switzerland Wins Ownership of its Domain Name

• Comment posted Oct 23, 2006 6:06 am PDT — by Rob Larkins
  Most of this article is good news as long as individuals retain the ability to turn the system off to avoid being tracked. I've been disappointed recently with both AOL's and Verizon's spam filters b/c they don't seem to allow…