Editor of DomainIncite.com covering the domain name business since ICANN #2, Berlin 1999.
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| 2023 - Dec 20 | on | Who Is Really Behind the Plan to Block .Web? |
| 2023 - Jan 15 | on | The Highest Threat TLDs - Part 1 |
| 2023 - Jan 13 | on | The Highest Threat TLDs - Part 1 |
| 2023 - Jan 12 | on | The Highest Threat TLDs - Part 1 |
| 2021 - Feb 11 | on | Now We Know Why It's Hard to Get a .COM |
| 2020 - Oct 22 | on | 2020 Hindsight After 20 Years at ICANN |
| 2018 - Oct 24 | on | M3AAWG and APWG Do the Best Survey Yet on WHOIS Redaction |
| 2018 - Oct 20 | on | Is finals.afl the Most-Viewed .Brand Domain Ever? |
| 2018 - Oct 19 | on | Is finals.afl the Most-Viewed .Brand Domain Ever? |
| 2018 - Oct 11 | on | The Road Less Traveled: Time Is Running Out for NTIA-Verisign Cooperative Agreement |
| 2018 - Oct 10 | on | The Road Less Traveled: Time Is Running Out for NTIA-Verisign Cooperative Agreement |
| 2018 - Sep 07 | on | GDPR Didn't Affect Spam? Not So Fast |
| 2018 - Sep 07 | on | GDPR Didn't Affect Spam? Not So Fast |
| 2018 - Sep 05 | on | GDPR Didn't Affect Spam? Not So Fast |
| 2017 - Dec 14 | on | 'Combosquatting': New Attention for an Old Problem |
| 2017 - Sep 09 | on | Making Sense of the Domain Name Market - and Its Future |
| 2017 - Aug 10 | on | Slovaks Worry About the Future of Their Country's .SK TLD |
| 2017 - May 01 | on | Domain Names Are Fading From User View |
| 2017 - Feb 20 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 13 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 13 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 12 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 12 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 12 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 12 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 10 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 10 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 10 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Feb 10 | on | Next gTLD Round - A Seven Year Itch? |
| 2017 - Jan 06 | on | Is 2017 Crunch Time for the Domain Industry? |
| 2016 - Nov 17 | on | A Real-Names Domain Registration Policy Would Discourage Political Lying |
| 2016 - Nov 17 | on | A Real-Names Domain Registration Policy Would Discourage Political Lying |
| 2016 - Jul 08 | on | Heritage Holding Anti-IANA Transition Event With Cruz |
| 2016 - Mar 17 | on | DotSpam? Certain New gTLDs Rapidly Outpacing Legacy TLDs in Terms of Abuse |
| 2016 - Feb 26 | on | The World is in Need of Transformative Solutions |
| 2016 - Feb 22 | on | The World is in Need of Transformative Solutions |
| 2016 - Feb 21 | on | The World is in Need of Transformative Solutions |
| 2015 - Nov 30 | on | The Cock and the Goat: ICANN in the Age of Horrorism |
| 2015 - Oct 28 | on | ICANN Compliance Lends a Hand to a Violent Criminal While Trashing a Legitimate Business |
| 2015 - Oct 27 | on | ICANN Compliance Lends a Hand to a Violent Criminal While Trashing a Legitimate Business |
| 2015 - Oct 24 | on | ICANN Compliance Lends a Hand to a Violent Criminal While Trashing a Legitimate Business |
| 2015 - Sep 24 | on | The Empire Strikes Back: ICANN Accountability at the Inflection Point |
| 2015 - Aug 01 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 31 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 31 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 30 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 29 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 29 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 29 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 27 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 27 | on | Out of .Africa - Process Failures Don't Change the Facts |
| 2015 - Jul 18 | on | Rage Against the ICANN Machine |
| 2015 - Jul 17 | on | Rage Against the ICANN Machine |
| 2015 - Jul 17 | on | Rage Against the ICANN Machine |
| 2015 - Jul 16 | on | New gTLDs Are Great for Pump-and-Dumps, Phishes and More... |
| 2015 - May 20 | on | Should Barclays Lose the .Barclays Top-Level Domain? |
| 2015 - May 14 | on | In Congressional Hearing, Stakeholders Highlight ICANN's Failures and Need for Reform |
| 2015 - May 14 | on | In Congressional Hearing, Stakeholders Highlight ICANN's Failures and Need for Reform |
| 2015 - Apr 13 | on | ICANN and a Lot of Other People Outsmart Themselves With .SUCKS |
| 2015 - Mar 03 | on | The Dot Green gTLD and the Domain Name Delusion That Foretells General gTLD Disaster |
| 2015 - Feb 16 | on | ICANN's Auction Piggy Bank Just Got Twice As Big |
| 2014 - Oct 27 | on | Moving ICANN Meeting from Marakech Would Send the Wrong Message |
| 2014 - Oct 05 | on | New gTLD Fees Threaten the Diversity of the Name Space |
| 2014 - Oct 05 | on | New gTLD Fees Threaten the Diversity of the Name Space |
| 2014 - Oct 05 | on | New gTLD Fees Threaten the Diversity of the Name Space |
| 2014 - Sep 12 | on | ICANN Board Appoints 2015 NomCom Chair |
| 2014 - Aug 27 | on | A New Way to Value Registry Business |
| 2014 - Aug 26 | on | A New Way to Value Registry Business |
| 2014 - Jul 24 | on | NTIA's FOIA Disclosures Shed Limited Light on IANA Transition Decision |
| 2014 - Jul 14 | on | Where Are the Registrars With New gTLDs on the Mobile Web? |
| 2014 - Jul 04 | on | Thank You GNSO - From the SHE.africa |
| 2014 - Jul 03 | on | Thank You GNSO - From the SHE.africa |
| 2014 - Jun 24 | on | Rape in the DNS |
| 2014 - Jun 16 | on | All New gTLD Registrations Should Be Subject to Sunrise Periods - Even Reserved Names |
| 2014 - Mar 31 | on | A Programmer's Perspective on the IANA Transition |
| 2013 - Sep 28 | on | New gTLD Registration Strategies: Preparing for the Inevitable |
| 2013 - Sep 16 | on | The Discrepancy in Confusion and Similarity Decisions of New gTLDs |
| 2013 - Sep 04 | on | Name Collision: Why ICANN Is Looking at It the Wrong Way (Part 1) |
| 2013 - Aug 07 | on | The Long Gestation and Afterlife of New gTLDs |
| 2013 - Aug 07 | on | The Long Gestation and Afterlife of New gTLDs |
| 2013 - Aug 06 | on | The Sexist Men In Tech Need to Grow Up, Now |
| 2013 - Jul 11 | on | The Missing Link in Dotless Domains |
| 2013 - Jul 11 | on | GAC, Inside Out: When GAC Members Abuse ICANN Procedures... |
| 2013 - Jul 11 | on | GAC, Inside Out: When GAC Members Abuse ICANN Procedures... |
| 2013 - Jul 11 | on | GAC, Inside Out: When GAC Members Abuse ICANN Procedures... |
| 2013 - Jun 13 | on | Poll on New TLDs Shows Value of Brand Loyalty, Willingness to Try New Equivalents to .COMs |
| 2013 - Apr 22 | on | Plural TLDs: Let's Stop Throwing Spanners in the Works! |
| 2013 - Apr 20 | on | Plural TLDs: Let's Stop Throwing Spanners in the Works! |
| 2013 - Apr 19 | on | Plural TLDs: Let's Stop Throwing Spanners in the Works! |
| 2013 - Mar 30 | on | Verisign Doesn't Think the Net Is Ready for a Thousand New TLDs |
| 2013 - Mar 30 | on | Verisign Doesn't Think the Net Is Ready for a Thousand New TLDs |
| 2013 - Mar 30 | on | Verisign Doesn't Think the Net Is Ready for a Thousand New TLDs |
| 2013 - Mar 30 | on | Verisign Doesn't Think the Net Is Ready for a Thousand New TLDs |
| 2013 - Mar 09 | on | Mishandling the Registrar Contract Negotiations |
| 2013 - Mar 08 | on | Mishandling the Registrar Contract Negotiations |
| 2013 - Mar 08 | on | Mishandling the Registrar Contract Negotiations |
| 2013 - Feb 13 | on | What Did we Learn Today About .XXX From IFFOR Tax Return |
| 2013 - Feb 12 | on | What Did we Learn Today About .XXX From IFFOR Tax Return |
| 2013 - Feb 07 | on | What Did we Learn Today About .XXX From IFFOR Tax Return |
| 2013 - Jan 23 | on | Trademark Clearinghouse Debate is Not About the Trademark Clearinghouse! |
| 2012 - Jun 29 | on | What If New gTLD Applicants Held Private Auctions Where Losing Applicants, Not ICANN Gets The Money |
| 2012 - Apr 15 | on | After ICANN's TLD Application System Glitch, Communication Is the Key |
| 2012 - Mar 28 | on | Fake Bank Site, Fake Registrar |
| 2012 - Mar 28 | on | Fake Bank Site, Fake Registrar |
| 2012 - Mar 21 | on | The Case for Trademark Protection for Top Level Domains |
| 2012 - Feb 24 | on | The Privacy Party and Leaving Dishes in the Sink |
| 2012 - Feb 15 | on | Google's Free Public DNS Load Tops VeriSign, Raising Dot-Com Contract Tender Question |
| 2012 - Feb 15 | on | Google's Free Public DNS Load Tops VeriSign, Raising Dot-Com Contract Tender Question |
| 2012 - Feb 14 | on | Google's Free Public DNS Load Tops VeriSign, Raising Dot-Com Contract Tender Question |
| 2012 - Feb 03 | on | World Notices That Verisign Said Three Months Ago That They Had a Security Breach Two Years Ago |
| 2011 - Nov 17 | on | New gTLDs and the 1% |
| 2011 - Nov 05 | on | Is Africa Ready for a dotAfrica gTLD Future? |
| 2011 - Nov 03 | on | Businesses Angry with ICANN's New gTLD Structure, Says CADNA |
| 2011 - Oct 18 | on | Why Brands Need Their Own TLD - The Mulberry-Sale Site that Scammed Me |
| 2011 - Oct 18 | on | Why Brands Need Their Own TLD - The Mulberry-Sale Site that Scammed Me |
| 2011 - Oct 13 | on | Bringing Order to The World's Cybrary: New TLDs Make Sense to Organize the Chaos of the Internet |
| 2011 - Oct 10 | on | Bringing Order to The World's Cybrary: New TLDs Make Sense to Organize the Chaos of the Internet |
| 2011 - Sep 16 | on | Inconsistencies in ICANN New TLD Application Fees |
| 2011 - Sep 07 | on | ICANN's "Unelected" Crisis |
| 2011 - May 25 | on | The User Experience with New TLDs: How to Avoid the Junk Mail File or 'User Unknown' |
| 2011 - Jan 26 | on | New gTLD Auctions and Potential Unintended Consequences |
| 2011 - Jan 18 | on | The Trembling Trademark Owners |
| 2011 - Jan 06 | on | ICANN Board - GAC Geneva Meeting: Open to Observers? |
| 2010 - Dec 16 | on | The Dotcom Kingdom |
| 2010 - Oct 04 | on | Plutocrats and the Internet |
| 2010 - Aug 18 | on | Openness and Transparency: ICANN Takes an Important Step in the Right Direction |
| 2010 - Aug 12 | on | Putting String Similarity into Context: Bulgaria's IDN (.??) vs. Brazil's ccTLD (.br) |
| 2010 - Aug 11 | on | Putting String Similarity into Context: Bulgaria's IDN (.??) vs. Brazil's ccTLD (.br) |
| 2010 - Aug 11 | on | Putting String Similarity into Context: Bulgaria's IDN (.??) vs. Brazil's ccTLD (.br) |
| 2010 - Aug 02 | on | DNS RPZ, Malicious Domains... Bring Your Own Policy. Dress Casual. |
| 2005 - Aug 17 | on | .XXX Puzzle Pieces Start to Come Together: And the Picture is Ugly |
| 2005 - Jul 29 | on | Abusive Anti-Anti-Spam Scheme a Dreadful Strategy |
| 2004 - Dec 22 | on | Internet to ITU: Stay Away from My Network |
| 2004 - Aug 26 | on | What's Wrong With Spam Prosecutions |
| 2004 - Aug 26 | on | What's Wrong With Spam Prosecutions |