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		<title> Setting a Higher Bar: Our .gay Commitment Is an Industry-First (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years ago, we made the decision to apply for ".gay" with encouragement from Clyde, my gay brother-in-law, among other passionate members of my family. Although we lost him recently, his memory has only increased our determination to see it through. I know Clyde would be proud of our vision for .gay, and all of the planning and community engagement that has gone into making sure we get this right. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20200128_setting_a_higher_bar_our_dot_gay_commitment_is_an_industry_first">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Private vs. ICANN Auction of Last Resort (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an applicant in this new gTLD round with quite a few overlapping strings, I've had a keen interest in the various proposed auction platforms. In the past six months the ideas behind private auction have matured significantly and I now see it as a strong mechanism for resolving contention. Following are my observations. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130102_private_vs_icann_auction_of_last_resort">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Advocating Ratio Model for Deleting Domains (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To date, end-users (of all levels of technical ability) who are trying to find a good domain name to establish an online identity have been endlessly frustrated by the lack of a method to fairly re-allocate "used" domain names. A full resolution to that problem is a separate (and much bigger) discussion... <a href="https://circleid.com/postsadvocating_ratio_model_for_deleting_domains">More...</a>]]></description>
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