https://www.circleid.com/blogs/ Postings from on CircleID en Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted. 2026-03-31T21:29:00+00:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090625_new_top_level_domains_software_implications https://circleid.com/posts20090625_new_top_level_domains_software_implications More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090603_irt_final_report_icann_uniform_rapid_suspension https://circleid.com/posts20090603_irt_final_report_icann_uniform_rapid_suspension Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) working group has published its final report, which I decided to analyze a bit further. I already made a few comments last month, both in the At-Large Advisory Council framework and on my own. There are several issues raised by the recommendations of this report. The Uniform Rapid Suspension system (URS) is one. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090515_belgian_isp_not_dominant_says_court https://circleid.com/posts20090515_belgian_isp_not_dominant_says_court More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20090325_vla_tld_flemish_government https://circleid.com/posts20090325_vla_tld_flemish_government More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20081216_icann_new_generic_tld_process https://circleid.com/posts20081216_icann_new_generic_tld_process ICANN's new gTLD process, mostly because many other people have said more diplomatically what I think, but I thought I could blog about it. My main concern from the beginning was that the process should allow any serious candidate to run with a reasonable chance to be able to actually start running a gTLD. This includes small and medium sized communities and startup companies with little seed money. This also includes registry models that may not favour mass registrations. For all these, the current model is flawed. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20080930_european_commission_internet https://circleid.com/posts20080930_european_commission_internet More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsigf_meeting_blacklisted https://circleid.com/postsigf_meeting_blacklisted More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts89810_internationalized_email_addresses https://circleid.com/posts89810_internationalized_email_addresses EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of email addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send email messages to non-7 bit ASCII addresses... There are 3 RFCs, covering changes to the SMTP protocol, e-mail message format and delivery Status Notifications. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts88984_icann_auction_new_top_level_domains https://circleid.com/posts88984_icann_auction_new_top_level_domains ICANN has just published a paper from its contractor PowerAuctions LLC, regarding the use of auctions to award new Top Level Domains (TLD) strings in case of contention. I can understand what ICANN wants to avoid. In the past, it has been criticized for using the "beauty contest" model with the redelegation of the .net TLD... However, the auction model is based on the idea that whoever wins the auction will be able to recoup its investment on the sale... More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsipv6_considered_a_problem https://circleid.com/postsipv6_considered_a_problem Google Blog Search Alert looking for posts over IPv6 in my RSS reader. What strikes me is the number of posts explaining how to disable IPv6 in Windows Vista, MacOSX, Ubuntu and other flavours of Linux. It looks like disabling IPv6 makes web browsing faster for a lot of people, independently of which operating system is being used. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts87111_gartner_new_top_level_domains https://circleid.com/posts87111_gartner_new_top_level_domains Gartner, the well known IT consulting company, has published a report on the new top level domains that will appear some time next year. The report totally misses the mark. In a pure US centric vision, it focuses on ".com" as the must-have TLD, totally overlooking the fact that a ".com" is mostly worthless e.g. in Germany, where ".de" is the TLD one must have to succeed locally... More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsnew_top_level_domains_internet_standards https://circleid.com/postsnew_top_level_domains_internet_standards The recent decision by ICANN to start a new round of applications for new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) is launching a round of questions on the IETF side about its consequences. One possible issue may be with vanity gTLDs like apple, ebay etc. Some expect that every Fortune 1,000,000 company will apply for its own TLD. My guess is rather the Fortune 1,000 for a start, but this does not change the nature of the issue, i.e. those companies may want to use email addresses like user@tld. More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsicann_sport_top_level_domain https://circleid.com/postsicann_sport_top_level_domain given me the green light, I can officially announce I am working on a proposal for a .sport TLD, to be submitted to ICANN for consideration as a new TLD next year. There is still a long way to go in terms of getting the proposal ready, but I this this one is a winner... More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsdomain_names_users_vs_registrants https://circleid.com/postsdomain_names_users_vs_registrants names@work writes that ICANN's constituencies are a "bad idea". While I am not sure to agree with him on the general principle, he makes some interesting remarks. Among others, he points out that the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) includes groups that seem to be redundant (the Business and Intellectual Property constituencies) and others like domainers which are not represented in the ICANN arena, yet are an integral part of the domain name business... More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts85288_european_commission_pushes_ipv6 https://circleid.com/posts85288_european_commission_pushes_ipv6 communication on IPv6, in time for the IPv6 Day in Brussels next 30th May. It goes in the same direction as the report presented at the OECD Ministerial meeting on "Future of the Internet Economy", that was held in Seoul, Korea earlier this month. At the same time, the Commission committed to make its own web services available on IPv6 by 2010. It is good to see that intergovermental organizations take the lead on this, after 10 years of failure of the private sector to actually deploy IPv6... More...]]> 2026-03-31T14:29:00-07:00