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Ireland's .ie To Come Under Government Control

• Comment posted Apr 21, 2004 12:48 am PDT — by John McCormac
  IE Domain Registry Limited crippled the development of .ie cctld as a viable alternative to .com/net/org. When IE Domain Registry Limited was spun off as an independent company from University College Dublin (UCD had administered .ie cctld previously), UCD appointed…

European Commission Executive Slams "Interference" in .XXX Vote

• Comment posted May 24, 2006 4:59 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  It is rather ironic that the Commission would be criticising others considering the squatters' paradise that .eu has become under Eurid.

EU NameSpace is Dead?

• Comment posted Jul 19, 2007 4:25 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  The figure for active web development in .eu is now close to 16% of the domains in the survey. Over the past few days, I’ve been refining the parsing (classifying holding pages and redirects based on frame src tags, duplicate…

The .EU Domain Popular with Cross-Border Merger Groups

• Comment posted Aug 29, 2007 7:15 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  More press release rubbish from EURid planted as a "story" in the media. The reason for Cyprus's high number of domains registered is due to the Ovidio domain warehousing operation that use Cyprus based front companies to register tens of…

EURid Suspends More Domains

• Comment posted Aug 29, 2007 11:57 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  There is nothing alleged about this cybersquatter. Most of the ADRs against Zheng have been upheld and the cybersquatted domains have been ordered transferred. The level of blatent cybersquatting in the domains registered by Zheng is quite high and suggests…

More on Dell's Anti-Tasting Suit

• Comment posted Dec 13, 2007 6:20 pm PST — by John McCormac
  Isn't Dell trying to have the cybersquatting treated as counterfeiting due to the industrial scale of the operation? That apparently means that the maximum penalty per offence is $1 Million. Are there any further documents available on the case?

Gartner on New Generic Top Level Domains

• Comment posted Aug 16, 2008 6:20 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  Because the future is never definite.

• Comment posted Aug 14, 2008 10:28 am PDT — by John McCormac
  The future of .com is probably worthy of a debate of its own. Gartner's "analysis" has all the credibility of a press release when ccTLDs are included in the equation. It seems to be trying to reassure US subscribers that…

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2008 3:29 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  There is also an element of foreign ownership in the growth of ccTLDs David, This is a subtle trend that is only apparent when you cross-reference the webserver and mailserver IPs. As for the relevance of .tw to people in…

• Comment posted Aug 13, 2008 2:48 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  It is very simple David, The stats on .ie or .tw versus .com or the gTLDs in those markets show just how .com is doing in those markets. While it might be nice to take .com as a global TLD,…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 10:56 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  Most of the domains registered in any new TLDs are speculative. They are registered by people who hope to sell them rapidly. When they cannot sell them, they end up parking them. If they don't generate enough revenue to cover…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 10:01 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  David, There is a difference between domain speculation and domain development. Most of the .com domains that sell do so for purely speculative purposes. This is why the number of times that phrase appears in Google or Yahoo is used…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2008 9:33 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  No David, That's a strawman argument. Most companies operate in their own locality rather than globally. When they do begin to operate outside their national boundaries, they tend to use the local ccTLD of their target markets. This is due…

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 6:49 am PDT — by John McCormac
  Patrick is right. The Gartner report misses the importance of ccTLDs completely (I don't regard Gartner or its analysts as being expert on the domain industry). The breakdown of .com vs ccTLD is interesting because in many countries, the ccTLD…

Shouting 'Bug' on a Crowded Internet...

• Comment posted Jul 24, 2008 9:37 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  Bill, I think that you are missing the critical aspects of both attacks. The widespread implementation of a smartcard based attack is more complex than implementing a software attack that uses the internet as its delivery path. The software attack…