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Moving Target: Spammer Using Over 1000 Home Computers as DNS

• Comment posted Jul 18, 2003 8:55 pm PDT — by fnord
  This is but one of many examples of why using the DNS to fight spam as suggested in this: http://www.circleid.com/article/151_0_1_0_C/ CircleID article is doomed to failure. -g

Do You Agree With WLS? Your Chance to Comment!

• Comment posted Jul 18, 2003 9:42 pm PDT — by fnord
  As I pointed out here over 18 months ago, there are some real downsides to allowing expiring names to be picked up by others without the original users express consent. In addition to, for example, children being drawn into explicit…

Story Behind .ASIA

• Comment posted Apr 12, 2005 6:14 pm PDT — by fnord
  Further muddlement of the TLD namespace thanks to the ever inept (but always money-hungry) ICANN. .eu is finally slouching towards Brussels waiting to be born, and now we (may) have .asia, which isn't on the ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 list,…

Live Nude Domain Names

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2005 12:07 am PDT — by fnord
  Martin Schwimmer writes: This TLD is intended to be a trade association and is not a form of regulation. I fail to see the distinction. Many trade associations are also a form of regulation, normally self-regulation, in the (often faint)…

U.S. Government to Retain Oversight of the Internet's Root Servers

• Comment posted Jul 01, 2005 10:11 pm PDT — by fnord
  I was more than a little surprised to see Paul Vixie's recent vitriolic attack against alternative roots here. Surely there was no need to gloat, that battle had long been won with the growth of alt/complementary roots having more or…

The US Department of Commerce, the DNS Root, and ICANN

• Comment posted Jul 05, 2005 7:03 am PDT — by fnord
  While I otherwise agree with the sentiments in the article, there is just no way that the USG did this so that they can at some point in the future release control of the root to someone other than ICANN,…

.XXX Puzzle Pieces Start to Come Together: And the Picture is Ugly

• Comment posted Aug 25, 2005 4:41 pm PDT — by fnord
  This sometimes resident ICANNWatch net prophet has come through again. As an occasional worker in the online pr0n industry (in a technical sense, he added hastily), I can say with some assurance that .xxx would be, er, embraced by those…

The "Parked Domain Monetization" Business

• Comment posted Dec 07, 2005 4:58 am PST — by fnord
  First off, some “parked domain monetization” operation (cyber-squatter) This is a very liberal interpretation of the term cybersquatter. It originally meant those who registered madonna.com or whatever and more or less held the domain for ransom in case some material…

Ask Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Jan 21, 2006 8:26 pm PST — by fnord
  While the idea seems to be almost universally reviled, Paul Mockapetris said he wished with the DNS that he'd created (in so many words) a directory system impervious to control by lawyers, governments, and other worthies. I am unclear as…

China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation

• Comment posted Mar 01, 2006 7:44 pm PST — by fnord
  I'm at a loss to understand all this folderol. New.net has been doing this for years (with little success), both as a plugin and through ISP partners including Earthlink. Admittedly new.net does not offer alternative character sets (which I've said…

ICANN Must Clamp Down On Domain Name Abuse

• Comment posted Jun 22, 2006 3:48 am PDT — by fnord
  Lookit Jothan Frakes, if you register domain names to resell them that is just plain dumb. I worked for a Sillycon Valley startup back in 1997, crikey that's almost a decade ago, and they owned dozens of really kewl names.…

Paul Twomey's Term Extended by 3 Years as ICANN President and CEO

• Comment posted Jun 26, 2006 7:09 pm PDT — by fnord
  This is so predictable. I said on ICANNWATCH.org over a year before he was appointed (annointed) that it was a done deed, and I humbly add I wasn't the first. And speaking of ICW.org, why did they remove the posting…

Whois: If You Want Privacy, Pay For It

• Comment posted Nov 11, 2007 5:01 am PST — by fnord
  I recently reported on ICANNWatch about how the .name registry is shifting at least part of the cost of WHOIS searches to those doing the searching, which is arguably at least as fair as having the domain holder pay for…

Three Years With ICANN

• Comment posted Nov 15, 2007 6:53 am PST — by fnord
  Joi Ito writes: >I’d agree with people who said things like...“we should just get rid of it [ICANN].”< We could get rid of ICANN with the exception of the IANA function and most internet users wouldn't be any the wiser,…