Ali Farshchian is the creator of CircleID, founded after conducting several years of research on technical, legal, and regulatory issues that have branched out of the Internet’s core infrastructure. Ali’s active involvement with the Internet dates back to 1991 during which he worked on various commercial and academic projects related to Internet based applications, software development, database design, publishing and collaborative online platforms. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University.
Ali has a keen interest and extensive experience in developing online communities and the collaborative web. He has played a key role in developing CircleID into what is now globally recognized as a leading online destination for the Internet infrastructure.
Except where otherwise noted, all postings by Ali Farshchian on CircleID are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
2023 - Oct 03 | on | ICANN Turning 25 - It's the People that Make a Difference |
2023 - Sep 25 | on | Afrinic Faces Receivership Amidst Legal Battles |
2020 - Jun 30 | on | Japan Fueling China's Leap to 5G, but for How Long? |
2019 - May 17 | on | A Report on the ICANN DNS Symposium |
2018 - Jul 20 | on | Why Government Agencies Use Ugly, Difficult to Use Scanned PDFs - There's More Than Meets the Eye |
2018 - May 23 | on | Schneier and Kerr on Encryption Workarounds |
2017 - Apr 26 | on | Cuba Getting Faster YouTube Access in Next 24 Hours, Thanks to Deal Signed in December |
2016 - Dec 20 | on | AT&T CEO Confident Trump-Appointed FCC Will Scrap Net Neutrality Regulations |
2016 - Jun 23 | on | How Diverse Is ICANN? New Study Explores Organisation's Makeup |
2015 - May 28 | on | Watch Live Thurs 28 May: The Way Forward for the WSIS+10 Review Process |
2014 - Oct 28 | on | Afnic Reporting About Impact of New TLDs on Traditional TLDs |
2014 - Jul 21 | on | Live Today: IXPs and the Relationship Between Geography and Network Topology |
2014 - Apr 16 | on | NTAG Chair Blog: A Better Auction Framework |
2013 - Jul 28 | on | Senate Appropriations Committee Critical of NTIA Role Within ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee |
2013 - Mar 07 | on | Who Runs the Internet? ICANN Attempts to Clarify the Answer With This Map |
2013 - Mar 03 | on | An Update on the Closed Generics Debate |
2012 - Jan 20 | on | Implications of Canada's CASL - Toughest Anti-Spam Law the World Has Ever Seen |
2011 - Aug 31 | on | DNSSEC Takes Off in Wake of Root Zone Signing |
2011 - Jun 05 | on | DHCP for IPv4 vs. IPv6 - What You Need to Know |
2011 - Mar 17 | on | The Real Deployment Issue |
2011 - Jan 18 | on | IPv6: Bring on Your Content! |
2010 - May 20 | on | Symantec Acquires VeriSign’s Security Business for $1.28 Billion |
2010 - Apr 12 | on | Apple's Naked Self Interest |
2009 - Apr 03 | on | NeuStar Experiences Partial Outage as DynDNS Tries to Turn up the Heat |
2009 - Mar 24 | on | Exploring the Roots of Wireless Spectrum Controversy (eComm Panel) |
2008 - Dec 19 | on | ICANN Sets the Schedule to Kill Domain Tasting |
2008 - Sep 24 | on | Mapping Google |
2008 - Aug 25 | on | New gTLDs: Comments on the Unsigned "The Economic Case for Auctions" |
2008 - Aug 07 | on | Day 30: Kaminsky DNS Bug Disclosure |
2008 - May 30 | on | Revision3 and Media Defender |
2007 - Dec 17 | on | DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling! |
2007 - Sep 21 | on | Developing Internet Standards: How Can the Engineering Community and the Users Meet? |
2007 - Mar 30 | on | Why I Voted for .XXX |
2006 - Mar 02 | on | China's New Domain Names: Lost in Translation |
2006 - Feb 19 | on | Hypertext Mail Protocol (a.k.a. Stub Email): A Proposal |
2006 - Feb 03 | on | AOL and Goodmail: Two Steps Back for Email |
2005 - Feb 20 | on | Domain Name Dispute Cases Increased by 6.6% in 2004 |
2005 - Feb 16 | on | IDN Spoofing Solutions With Balance |
2004 - Jul 27 | on | Sender Address Verification: Solving the Spam Crisis |
2004 - Jun 17 | on | Recent WHOIS Report Overlooking Fundamental Issue? |
2003 - Dec 12 | on | ICC and the U.N. Takeover |
2003 - Dec 11 | on | ICC and the U.N. Takeover |
2003 - Oct 30 | on | Lobbying for Whois Privacy |
2003 - Aug 28 | on | Analyzing The Inbox of a Spammer's Domain |