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ICANN Auctions or Private Auctions?

• Comment posted Jun 06, 2013 10:22 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  Avri, If I follow you, the logic is that the "recirculated" funding from applicant auctions is the difference, meaning portfolio applicants are at least somewhat dependent on it to win auctions and will use it to beat out the singles.…

Google's Free Public DNS Load Tops VeriSign, Raising Dot-Com Contract Tender Question

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2012 1:40 am PST — by Paul Stahura
  I would guess Google makes some serious coin by mining all those DNS queries.  And if their name servers are down it is not like they stopped the flow of commerce across 3/4 of the world.

Corporate Domain Registration Practices in Light of New gTLDs

• Comment posted Apr 28, 2011 10:55 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  ...the article was written in 2009.  Its before .co came out, but not before .me.  I'm just seeing it now.  Anyway future events have disproved your point as those two TLDs have had much bigger uptake than .tel had.

• Comment posted Apr 28, 2011 10:49 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  Elisa, Why didn't you put the number of registrations for .co and .me on your "uptake" list? Could it be there they have had a large uptake so it disproves your point? As you say "facts are facts" And even…

It's Time for the New gTLD Delays to End

• Comment posted Oct 29, 2010 8:42 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  Very well articulated. I agree 100%

ICANN and Its Responsibilities to the Global Public Interest

• Comment posted Feb 11, 2010 5:58 pm PST — by Paul Stahura
  I agree with you on that - new TLDs bring new competition which will improve service from all registries. More innovation, lower prices, etc.  Very good for the public, even if it negatively impacts incumbent registries economically. It appears to…

• Comment posted Feb 11, 2010 5:00 pm PST — by Paul Stahura
  You said yourself that ICANN was created as a "private-public partnership", yet you stress only the public part. ICANN was created as this partnership in order to harness private interest for the public good. It’s like TV.  Yes we have…

TLD Rights Protection Mechanisms

• Comment posted Apr 14, 2009 5:07 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  Thomas, Very good points.  As we said in the article there are details to work out. Re 1B, True many complaints can be filed using the same bond.  Since there is a risk to the bond holder, we expect the…

Latest Cybersquatting Stats from WIPO

• Comment posted Mar 17, 2009 5:27 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  According to VeriSign’s industry brief there were approximately 150M names registered in Q4 2007, and 175M in Q4 2008.  That’s a 16% growth. So the number of UDRP cases per registration actually decreased because the number of registrations increased faster…

Logical Deduction on Why New TLDs Will Not Increase Costs for Trademark Holders

• Comment posted Feb 07, 2009 12:26 am PST — by Paul Stahura
  james, 1) wild west is on the (flawed) knujon top-10 list - wild west is godaddy.  2) re where to build roads - do we let the government decide where you locate your business?  market forces.  simple.

Domain Name Disputes Doubled Since 2003, Origin of Most Cases in US

• Comment posted Jan 02, 2009 11:01 pm PST — by Paul Stahura
  There were about 20M .coms in 2003 and now there are about 75M, and other zone files have grown even faster, so disputes as a percent of the number of registered names actually went down by more then 50% since…

Phishers Expand Number of Top Level Domains Abused, Policy Changes Found Effective in Prevention

• Comment posted Nov 30, 2008 6:25 pm PST — by Paul Stahura
  .us does not allow proxy whois registrations, and .biz (not .us) does.

• Comment posted Nov 30, 2008 6:24 pm PST — by Paul Stahura
  Its like running an experiement.  Try to keep as many variables constant as you can, so you can see the effect of the single variable you are changing.  .biz and .us have many variables in common, except one major variable:…

• Comment posted Nov 25, 2008 8:18 pm PST — by Paul Stahura
  Its interesting that of two TLDs - .biz and .us, which are about the same size and run by the same operator, that .us has a higher score (more phishing) than .biz, while one of the only differences between these…

A Voting System for Internet by Domain Name Owners - Part II

• Comment posted Aug 29, 2003 8:16 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  I think this is a good idea. At least we'd have a mechanism to help guage the will of registrants on selected important issues. Implementation would not need to be mandated. If a registrar decides not to implement it, that…

Register.com's Director of Policy Responds to WLS Issue

• Comment posted Jul 22, 2003 8:39 pm PDT — by Paul Stahura
  Elana, you are correct, this is a major problem with WLS.  Therefore, to correct this problem and at the same time maintain a level playing field amongst registrars, the restriction should be modified so that no registrar can sell WLS…

Do You Agree With WLS? Your Chance to Comment!

• Comment posted Jul 19, 2003 1:09 am PDT — by Paul Stahura
  I do not support WLS because it will tilt the even playing field amongst registrars that ICANN and the Internet community have painstakingly setup. This artifact of WLS was noted before the ICANN board approved the current WLS proposal. Unfortunately,…