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Plural TLDs: Let's Stop Throwing Spanners in the Works!

• Comment posted Apr 19, 2013 4:40 pm PDT — by Michael Berkens
  Stéphane Car.com and cars.com is quite different than a .car and .cars TLD, whole different business model whole different ball game. While I agree with you the Guidebook doesn't provide any rules against singular and plurals its should have and…

Much Ado About Nothing

• Comment posted Apr 06, 2013 6:47 pm PDT — by Michael Berkens
  Mr. Balto We are in full agreement with your assessment and actually published our own paper on this subject a couple of days ago with all sorts of legal citations: http://rightofthedot.com/2013/04/does-the-use-of-private-auctions-to-resolve-new-gtld-contention-sets-automatically-violate-federal-antitrust-laws/

What Did we Learn Today About .XXX From IFFOR Tax Return

• Comment posted Feb 13, 2013 7:57 pm PST — by Michael Berkens
  Kevin Then why is the deferred revenue showing up as a liability rather than an asset? Also why is only 20,800 paid out by IFFOR for content labeling $1 per domain, again reflecting only 20,800 resolving domains, they can't predict…

• Comment posted Feb 12, 2013 4:39 pm PST — by Michael Berkens
  Kevin Doesn't look like Xbiz had any luck getting any more details from ICM on how this got computed than we did. http://www.xbiz.com/news/159259 Guess we have to go back to the numbers and use some logic to try to figure…

• Comment posted Feb 08, 2013 2:07 am PST — by Michael Berkens
  Kevin I got the same message from your buddy Andrew on my blog, I reached out to IFFOR over 6 months ago asking for revenue and expenditures numbers and they responded that they aren't going to release any of that…

Private vs. ICANN Auction of Last Resort

• Comment posted Jan 03, 2013 3:37 am PST — by Michael Berkens
  Ray Thanks for the input. RightoftheDot.com offers highly flexible plans offering different auctions based on the desires and timing of the applicants for each string. The other auction solution is offered only during highly restricted time frames, and in a…