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Taking Back the DNS

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2010 1:45 am PDT — by John McCormac
  This is how it could be presented by the ISPs: a value added service. The end users don't have to use it but the selling point for ISPs would be that it would be a "more user friendly" and "safer"…

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2010 12:41 am PDT — by John McCormac
  @Frank I remember a thread on Sevenmile.com where the possibility of search engines and browser developers reacting against the high numbers of parked/PPC domains by effectively working to block these sites. The browser developer or search engine would have provided…

• Comment posted Aug 02, 2010 8:17 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  Most new domain names are malicious. This is a sweeping statement. However had a reputation based DNS option been available a few years ago when ICANN essentially facilitated Domain Tasting, then it could have solved a lot of the problems…

Brand Protection Domain Registrations: There Are More Than You Think

• Comment posted Jul 28, 2010 10:07 am PDT — by John McCormac
  " Like you already mentioned, the brands will find how to monetize the opportunity. On aggregate, they will find ways to make more money than they lose. You can not just claim "costs" from the release of new TLDs as…

• Comment posted Jul 28, 2010 9:32 am PDT — by John McCormac
  A hoster is a webhoster grouped by its nameservers, John, Basically the zonefiles are processed by grouping all a hoster's nameservers under the domain name of the host and using the domain name to identify the hoster. It is the…

• Comment posted Jul 25, 2010 7:39 am PDT — by John McCormac
  The reasons that brands owners register their brands across TLDs is because somebody else might register them. Most of the big brands are supported by trademarks and trademarks have to be protected. They have to be defended or they can…

• Comment posted Jul 24, 2010 10:56 am PDT — by John McCormac
  The .us ccTLD figures with respect to com/net/org/biz/info/mobi/asia gTLDs are: Cross TLD Domains - Percentage 710427 of 1,616,405 - 43.95% Some of those will be brand protection but others will be due to domaining.

• Comment posted Jul 24, 2010 3:39 am PDT — by John McCormac
  I agree Michele, The new TLDs have to prove themselves attractive to the public. The .tel sTLD was excluded from this survey because it uses the same nameservers for all of its domains. Brand protection will play a part in…

• Comment posted Jul 24, 2010 3:14 am PDT — by John McCormac
  I don't know that all these registrations are defensive, Antony. That's why they are estimates. But when the same names are being registered across TLDs and also on the same hosters, they point to a brand being protected. This is…

ICANN Culls Three More Domain Name Registrars

• Comment posted Aug 12, 2009 9:50 am PDT — by John McCormac
  I was comparing the growth in the main TLDs for 01/January/2009 - 01/August/2009 with the 01/January/2008-01/August/2008 and there is an indication that the growth rates are slowing down. The .com was only at 51.86% of the 2008 figure. The .net…

EU Calls For Full Privatization of ICANN, Commissioner Calls Sept 30 Moment of Truth

• Comment posted May 09, 2009 3:36 pm PDT — by John McCormac
  Given the mess these fools in the European Commission made of .eu ccTLD, I hardly think that they are in any position to comment on internet governance.

Domain Registrations on Decline, Google and Lower Ad Spendings Blamed

• Comment posted Dec 04, 2008 11:43 pm PST — by John McCormac
  The growth in .com and .net seems to be slowing. However the cumulative ccTLD growth seems to be outstripping the gTLDs as ccTLDs begin to mature. There is a point in the evolution of a country's domain footprint where the…

ICANN Must Address Domain Tasting Ripple Effects

• Comment posted Nov 15, 2008 9:46 pm PST — by John McCormac
  ICANN has been completely incompetent on the issues of domain tasting and domain kiting. It is far more content to merely discuss matters than take any action. Indeed the whole problem of domain tasting was largely one of ICANN's making.…

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…

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…

Gartner on New Generic Top Level Domains

• 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…

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?

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…