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Hotels.com Denied Trademark, Too Generic Says Court

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2009 5:27 pm PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  "hotels" may not distinugish the entity from all others, but hotels.com certainly *does* and should be trademarked. This has nothing to do with .hotels, we're not even talking about that.

• Comment posted Jul 25, 2009 5:26 pm PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see why they couldn't trademark "hotels.com" - which certainly is unique given that there can only be one. In our trademark for "easyDNS" we had to specifically disclaim any claim to the generic…

NeuStar Experiences Partial Outage as DynDNS Tries to Turn up the Heat

• Comment posted Apr 03, 2009 1:26 am PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  One of the things I absolutely love about the DNS industry are my competitors, because for the most part I've never been in competition with a nicer, genuinely helpful and clueful bunch. Yes, Steve at DNSmadeeasy and David at EveryDNS,…

ICANN Blows $4.6 Million In Stock Market

• Comment posted Feb 27, 2009 5:26 pm PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  They are probably switching over to new "mark to myth" accounting practices. Everybody's doing it.

• Comment posted Feb 05, 2009 8:49 pm PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  ICANN has a duty to disclose what the money is invested in.

• Comment posted Feb 05, 2009 3:30 pm PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Speaking as one of the sources of those funds, I'm not pleased to learn of this. When I was on the CIRA Board we had a reserve fund: it covered 9 months of operating expenses and we later increased it…

Users Don't Like Forwarded Spam

• Comment posted Oct 16, 2008 5:14 pm PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  We just went through this with comcast ourselves after they were deferring mail from our mail forwarders to comcast users. We finally got in contact with some postmasters and their abuse department and we went ahead and set up a…

Domain Aftermarket Overdue for an "Asset Repricing"

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2007 4:52 am PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Robert Haastrup-Timmi said: I make an excellent daily/monthly return on a lot of my domains that have no natural type-in traffic whatsoever, simply by optimising them through search engines and most of them are parked! Therefore I could prove to…

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2007 3:30 am PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Snoopy said: Over the top, we have gone from one extreme to the other. Your blog article has almost as many errors in it as Mark's. Yes I know Snoopy, I botched the numbers big time, you know I copped…

• Comment posted Apr 27, 2007 3:20 am PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Robert Haastrup-Timmi said: Mark!...that's a bit like saying don't hold on to your disney shares back in 1955 Actually it's more like saying "Sell VA Linux" back in January 2001. The point, is all assets appreciate in value over time…

OpenDNS: It's Not SiteFinder for Obvious Reasons

• Comment posted Jan 01, 2007 5:02 am PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Example: What’s to stop opendns from making a bit of extra dough by sending 1% of, say google.com lookups to theirsearchsite.dom and monetizing the traffic (and probably causing lots of unexpectged ugly side effects despite efforts not to).  Saying their…

AFNIC and DNS Server Redelegation

• Comment posted Dec 15, 2006 2:52 pm PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Sorry about the confusion about the RFC1912 serial, that was my mistake.

• Comment posted Dec 15, 2006 5:22 am PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Allowing TCP or not aside, AFNIC also insists on RFC1912 style serials in the SOA as another reason for refusing delegations, which I'm sure is fine for the theological purists, but there really is no reason for a registry to…

The Credible Threat

• Comment posted Feb 28, 2006 7:09 pm PST — by Mark Jeftovic
  Michael, I'm not sure this is happening quite as surmised. As I just posted, there are now entries under .cn for .com.cn and .net.cn with SOA serials dated March 1, 2006. If you reread the article, you can see there…

Whither DNS?

• Comment posted Sep 14, 2005 9:50 pm PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  Do you want an open standards-based internet or a closed proprietary one? All of your examples of systems that don't require DNS: skype, AOL, MSN are closed proprietary systems. They work, but they're a pain to inter-operate (if at all).…

Fight Spam With the DNS, Not the CIA

• Comment posted Jul 09, 2003 2:57 pm PDT — by Mark Jeftovic
  There is a recent proposal around this idea called Reverse MX or RMX. An internet draft exists at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-danisch-dns-rr-smtp-02.txt and the author maintains a site at http://www.danisch.de/work/security/antispam.html I think its an idea whose time cannot come fast enough.