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	<title>&#45; CircleID</title>
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		<title> I Got Fired (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a story told a thousand times: founder of a company ousted by investors. It's a story so common you can find it any day of the week as a minor headline in a tech blog. Not much of a story at all really, until it happened to me. Minds + Machines, the company I founded in 2009, informed me last week that I was no longer wanted as CEO. Without going into details, which I can't, there were differences and disagreements. Still, it was a surprise. All the plans, the hopes -- pfhhht! into thin air. It sucked. Now what? <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20160222_i_got_fired">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> A New Way to Value Registry Business (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a new site on the web - nTLDstats.com - that has a ton of valuable information about the new gTLD program. It shows numbers of registrations by registry, registrar, registry service provides - all the "Rs" in the domain name industry. It has quickly become the place where people go to measure how the industry, and the competitors in it, are doing. There's only one problem - not all domain registrations are created equal. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140825_a_new_way_to_value_registry_business">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Antony Van Couvering Interviews Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos (Video) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Alexa Raad, CEO of Architelos, filmed recently at ICANN 49 in Singapore. Alexa and Antony discuss how brands are dealing with new gTLD, registry strategies for success and how to market a new gTLD. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140602_antony_van_couvering_interviews_alexa_raad_ceo_of_architelos_video">More...</a>]]></description>
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		<title> Antony Van Couvering Interviews Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows (Video) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140530_antony_van_couvering_interviews_elliot_noss_ceo_of_tucows_video</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Antony Van Couvering, CEO of Minds + Machines, continues his series of in-depth talks with leading figures from the domain name industry with this video interview of Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows, filmed recently at ICANN 49 in Singapore. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140530_antony_van_couvering_interviews_elliot_noss_ceo_of_tucows_video">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> Antony Van Couvering Interviews Adrian Kinderis, CEO of Bombora Technologies (Video) (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20140528_antony_van_couvering_interviews_ceo_of_bombora_technologies</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The talk ranges from new gTLD introductions, the role of ccTLDs in the new landscape, the relationships between registries and registrars, and some predictions for the future. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20140528_antony_van_couvering_interviews_ceo_of_bombora_technologies">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> In Praise of ICANN (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ICANN comes in for a lot of criticism. That's because people care very deeply about it. The multi-stakeholder model, of which ICANN is the exemplar, is such a radical and revolutionary departure from how global affairs have been managed in the past that many of us are constantly on guard lest ICANN degrade into the command-and-control structure that characterizes other global regulatory bodies. At ICANN, it's the volunteers, those who care (as well as, yes, those who are paid to pretend to care) who set policy <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20131116_in_praise_of_icann">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Long Gestation and Afterlife of New gTLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20130806_the_long_gestation_and_afterlife_of_new_gtlds</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN continues to flail, pointlessly. The latest in a series of missteps that could easily have been avoided is its recommendations on what to do about a report on the potential for confusion and misaddressing when someone's internal network names match the name for a new gTLD, and they have misconfigured their routers and/or DNS to the extent that someone typing in a new gTLD name might end up in the middle of someone else's network. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130806_the_long_gestation_and_afterlife_of_new_gtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> On the Question of Closed Generic Top-Level Domains (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20130730_on_the_question_of_closed_generic_top_level_domains</link>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate over so-called "closed generic" top-level domains has revealed that rarest of semi-mythical beasts, a creature often emblazoned in ICANN heraldry but as elusive as the unicorn on the UK royal coat of arms: an argument on principle. Occasionally an issue arises out of the muck of self-interested manoeuvring to reveal the deep idealism that moves most ICANN participants. You can see it by how it divides camps that usually march along in lock-step, and by how the predictable murmur of shopworn cliches is replaced by arguments of clarity and resonance. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130730_on_the_question_of_closed_generic_top_level_domains">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN Auctions or Private Auctions? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By this time next year the allocation of the new Internet namespace will be complete. Several hundred contention sets, ranging from likely blockbusters like .WEB to somewhat less obvious money-makers like .UNICORN, will be decided by some method. One way to resolve contention is to form a joint venture... That works well when there are only two competitors and there's a good basis of trust, and it's a great solution because there are no losers. But if there are three or more competitors, or if you don't like and trust your prospective partner-to-be, this really isn't an option. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20130603_icann_auctions_or_private_auctions">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN Reveals Evaluation Timing for New gTLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120730_icann_reveals_evaluation_timing_for_new_gtlds</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Having consigned to oblivion the unpopular "digital archery" method of determining who goes first in the new gTLD round, ICANN today announced that it was going to evaluate all new gTLD applications concurrently (the "single batch"), and release all results simultaneously. The decision is a victory for clarity and a very good result for new gTLD applicants. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120730_icann_reveals_evaluation_timing_for_new_gtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> The Biggest Glitch of All - ICANN's Batching Program for New gTLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts0120610_biggest_glitch_of_all_icanns_batching_program_for_new_gtlds</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ICANN's batching program, called digital archery, is deeply flawed and should be abandoned before it causes havoc with the new gTLD program. As well as arbitrarily creating winners and losers, creating unfair advantages for certain types of applicants and for certain regions, the program may be suffering from another software "glitch" of the kind that damaged the application process. There is a much better solution: a single batch for all applications. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts0120610_biggest_glitch_of_all_icanns_batching_program_for_new_gtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> 2100 New gTLD Applications. What Does It Mean? (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20120506_2100_new_gtld_applications_what_does_it_mean</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the last week, ICANN has released several pieces of information that taken together begin to allow us to piece together the overall gTLD landscape. ICANN is releasing partial information, without explanation or context, in dribs and drabs, and rumors are flying that we won't get the "Reveal" until the ICANN meeting in Prague at the end of June. This partial information and delay from ICANN is creating consternation and confusion among the many applicants and those watching the new gTLD scene. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20120506_2100_new_gtld_applications_what_does_it_mean">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> U.S. Government Strongly Affirms ICANN Model and New gTLDs (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<link>https://circleid.com/posts20111210_us_government_strongly_affirms_icann_model_and_new_gtlds</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Strickling, who runs the NTIA (the part of the U.S. Department of Commerce that handles ICANN), yesterday gave an important and remarkable speech to the Practicing Law Institute about Internet governance. His speech, timed to coincide with an orchestrated ICANN-bashing across town in the Senate, was a striking defense of the ICANN model and a repudiation of special pleading outside the process. <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20111210_us_government_strongly_affirms_icann_model_and_new_gtlds">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> New gTLDs and the 1% (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Occupy Wall Street and other groups representing the so-called 99% are getting most of the press, the 1% is raising its profile as well, at least when it comes to gTLDs. They are complaining that introducing global choice and competition to the Internet will cost them money. The chief of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) now says that it has "spent the last few months" considering the new gTLD program, and has found it lacking. They want ICANN to shut the whole thing down. <a href="https://circleid.com/postsnew_gtlds_and_the_1">More...</a>]]></description>
		<dc:date>2026-04-30T12:14:00-07:00</dc:date>
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		<title> ICANN Finds Its Voice (Featured Blog)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we are finally getting somewhere: ICANN is no longer fluttering flusteredly whenever a lobbying group sends a nastygram over the transom. Case in point: a Association of National Advertisers (ANA) that arrived a few days ago, full of bombast and muscle-flexing, demanding that ICANN immediately stop the new gTLD program until a long list of demands from the ANA were met, or else the ANA would be forced to take some Very Scary Actions... <a href="https://circleid.com/posts20110810_icann_finds_its_voice">More...</a>]]></description>
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