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Mike OConnor

Mike OConnor

Curmudgeon Emeritus (formerly foo@bar.com)
Joined on May 20, 2006
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BA, Grinnell College—majored in drugs, sex and rock and roll

MBA, Cornell University—majored in Fear vs Greed

Community radio—KDNA, KUSP, WORT, National Federation of Community Broadcasters

Big-time consulting—Arthur Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand

Big titles—VP, Controller, CEO, CIO (various places)

Internet—Started an ISP, got a gaggle of great domains (bar.com, television.com, place.com, corp.com, etc.) back in the early days, member of the ICANN Business Constituency

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ICANN Violating Free Enterprise?

Comment posted May 23, 2006 3:25 am PDT — by Mike OConnor
Gotta come back on that "due process" thingy. Customers in a free market have lots of due process. If providers do a crummy job, customers can do all kinds of things, all the way from complaining, to switching to another…

Comment posted May 22, 2006 8:42 pm PDT — by Mike OConnor
Hi Ram, I think you've hit the crux of the debate. On the one hand is a regulated-industries environment, which is used in the case of a "natural monopoly" (inside-baseball term, that) to ensure customer-service, fairness, access, equitable pricing, etc. …

Comment posted May 22, 2006 1:58 pm PDT — by Mike OConnor
I think selling subdomains might be the way out of the logjam. That approach would dramatically expand the domain-name space and is consistent with the way that ccTLDs are doing it. Subdomains are very flexible semantically—nobody is going to confuse…

Comment posted May 21, 2006 12:04 am PDT — by Mike OConnor
Heh. Interesting notion about the info.com registry. Check out the corp.com, bar.com, pub.com and place.com registries that we brought up this weekend.

If WHOIS Privacy is a Good Idea, Why is it Going Nowhere?

Comment posted Aug 30, 2007 2:30 pm PDT — by Mike OConnor
I agree with the broad strokes of your argument John. As an ICANN-newbie (my first meeting was Wellington) and end-customer of the domain system, I've been bewildered by the conversation about WHOIS privacy and found this article to be helpful…

CNET Report Calling all Domainers "Cybersquatters", Blaming Cheap Domains

Comment posted Oct 11, 2007 12:47 am PDT — by Mike OConnor
Huh. CNet beat me out for radio.com back in 1994. They still own it. And it's parked. So it look t'me like CNet is calling the kettle black. I think of CNet as one of the most astute domainer outfits…

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DNS, Domain Names, Top-Level Domains, Whois, Privacy, Security, Policy & Regulation, Cybersquatting, Cybercrime

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