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New gTLDs and Their Hidden Costs: Part 2

• Comment posted Aug 12, 2010 7:26 pm PDT — by go2ao
  Evidently a lot of discussion about the hypothetical impacts on business from a so-called Super League; but, nothing I can see on the certain impacts of regulatory insanity on third world development economies and, indeed, other exceedingly important policy considerations.…

When Did CIRA Become the Commercial Internet Registration Authority?

• Comment posted Mar 31, 2009 8:32 pm PDT — by go2ao
  For the record, CIRA's so-called "authority" stems from nothing. It started with a private Internet project in Vancouver, apparently at UBC. CIRA does not now and nor has it ever had "authority" for anything in connection with dot-CA domains. The…

Do We Need Two Internets?

• Comment posted May 21, 2008 9:27 pm PDT — by go2ao
  It's entirely possible to build the equivalent of a "red" zone and a "green" zone right now, notwithstanding the DNS. The "tethering" problem referred to by Jon Zittrain is both structural by design and required by competitive pressures occasioned by…

New CIRA Whois Policy Strikes Balance Between Privacy and Access

• Comment posted May 21, 2008 8:09 pm PDT — by go2ao
  This post from CIRA sycophant, Michael Geist, is unmitigated .CA-CA. The CIRA policy does NOT strike a balance between privacy and access, notwithstanding Canadian privacy rules, which are an excuse for CIRA to extend and reinforce its monopolization of the…

Canada's New Policy Will Privatize Whois Data for .ca Domains

• Comment posted May 02, 2008 4:00 am PDT — by go2ao
  People need to know what CIRA actually is. The actual purpose of this policy is to make it difficult for private as distinct from corporate registrants to sell .CA domain names, the former which is a legal problem for CIRA.…

Domain Front Running by Registrars Continues to Draw Attention

• Comment posted Jan 09, 2008 7:46 pm PST — by go2ao
  This business about domain front running at NSI/Verisign is really not a new phenomenon. NSI - then Network Solutions - used to do a form of this regularly as far back as 1998. I know this because NSI tried to…

Reaction to New Top Level Domains

• Comment posted Dec 16, 2004 10:52 pm PST — by go2ao
  ICANN's present rollout of a series of unwarranted and unwanted (except by the stakeholders) new TLDs requires a few comments about whether the same thing in terms of web addresses can be achieved with far less expense and disruption. It…

Cornucopia: A Radically Different Approach to TLDs

• Comment posted Dec 08, 2004 9:57 pm PST — by go2ao
  A propos Mr. Brett Watson's Cornucopia approach (see below) to new TLDs, the idea might have had merit were it not for the fact that the political and economic interests of the key players (we all know who they are!)…

A Psychoanalysis of Corporate Domain Names and Branding - Part I

• Comment posted Jan 23, 2004 3:26 am PST — by go2ao
  This column is idiotic! By the logic of the author, the brand name "Federal Express" (two words) is problematic. Similarly, generic everyday words like "air", "book" and "car" apparently are not memorable. So:- when someone is looking, for example, for…