http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Antony Van Couvering on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2008-06-26T13:08:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/86262_launch_of_paris_domain_icann http://www.circleid.com/posts/86262_launch_of_paris_domain_icann ICANN gala at the overwrought Hotel de Ville (city hall) in Paris. Most of them missed an interesting announcement. I arrived an hour late, but even so food and drink were not yet served (not even water), and everyone was in desperate need of provisioning. The dull roar of heat-induced complaining drowned out the dignitaries making speeches at the far end of the hall. More...]]> 2008-06-26T13:08:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_many_tld_applications_icann http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_many_tld_applications_icann More...]]> 2008-06-11T10:24:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_price_jump_moores_law http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_price_jump_moores_law VeriSign raised the price of domain names, effective in October. New prices wholesale prices (to the registrar) for .com domain names are going from $6.42 to $6.86, while .net will increase from $3.85 to $4.23. This news came a few days ago in a letter to registrars. (Hint to consumers: renew your domains now.) ...So, basically, many if not most of VeriSign's registry costs have been falling at an exponential rate. Hard disk storage, computing performance, bandwidth, RAM storage... yet the cost is going up. How is this justified? More...]]> 2008-04-03T09:39:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/eu_trying_to_destroy_internet http://www.circleid.com/posts/eu_trying_to_destroy_internet announced that it was cutting its wholesale price from 10 Euros to 5 Euros (about US$6.40 at today's rate). Is Eurid crazy? They're cutting the price in half! Eurid is acting as if unit cost should go down as sales increase! Haven't they learned the lesson... More...]]> 2006-11-20T10:35:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/idns_and_ie7_and_the_coming_storm http://www.circleid.com/posts/idns_and_ie7_and_the_coming_storm More...]]> 2006-02-03T07:54:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/whats_wrong_with_domain_names http://www.circleid.com/posts/whats_wrong_with_domain_names significant traffic that comes from typed-in domain names, the public harumphing and clucking about type-in traffic is climbing in volume as it becomes clear how much money is involved. Articles this week show that domain names, and the people who make money on them, are making some commentators uncomfortable. More...]]> 2005-12-22T09:32:36-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/she_gave_me_a_fake_phone_number http://www.circleid.com/posts/she_gave_me_a_fake_phone_number Intellectual Property Constituency, meeting at the ICANN conference in Vancouver, was interested in increasing ICANN's budget not because they thought they deserved it, but because they wanted ICANN to actually enforce the rules on the books about fake registrations. Now there's some evidence about how prevalent that is. If there's any surprise here, it's that the numbers are so low. More...]]> 2005-12-08T20:54:24-08:00