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29 Aug 2006
The ICANN ALAC, of which I am a member, has been thinking about what our
position should be on domain tasting. (Since we are supposed to represent
the interests of at-large users, i.e., everyone other than the special
insterests, feel free to add your opinions.)
We started by trying to figure out what the problem is that we're
worried about.
There is a meaningful difference between domain monetization and
domain tasting.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/taste.html
26 Aug 2006
Whatever you think the answer is (typically about ten bucks), the answer
is likely to change radically for the worse, based on new contracts that
ICANN is planning to approve.
On July 28th ICANN posted
proposed new contracts
for .ORG, .BIZ, and .INFO, for a public comment period that ends four days from
now, on the 28th.
There's a lot not to like about these proposed contracts,
but I will concentrate here on two related particularly troublesome areas,
pricing and data mining.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/squeezem.html
17 Aug 2006
Today the wildcard is back in all but one of the CM name servers,
again pointing at the same server in Canada that doesn't identify
itself but has a big link farm of Overture pay-per-click links.
Also, Appolinaire Noumbi, who identifies himself as the
Chairman, Federation of Cameroonian Engineers, has posted
a most peculiar
personal page at Circle ID.
I still think that it is not a fundamentally bad idea for Cameroon
to take advantage of its typographic proximity to .COM, but an
anonymous junk parking page is not the way to do it.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/cameroon4.html
12 Aug 2006
The IETF
DKIM working group
has been making considerable progress, and now has a close-to-final
draft.
DKIM will let domains sign their mail so if you get a messge from
fred@furble.net, the furble.net mail system can sign it so
you can be sure it really truly is from furble.net.
But unless you already happen to be familiar with furble.net, this
doesn't give you any help deciding whether you want the message.
This is where the new
Domain Assurance Council
(DAC) comes in.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/dac.html
11 Aug 2006
As of this morning there's no longer a wildcard in the CM zone.
Perhaps
Mr. Noubi
will be able to give us the background.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/cameroon3.html
10 Aug 2006
As of 9 Aug, the typosquat domains at Rackspace have
all stopped working.
They still have entries in .CM, but the Rackspace servers to which
they are delegated no longer have data for them.
Wow, people actually read my blog.
Also, there are some interesting comments both on my blog
entry as well as on the original
Circle ID message from Appolinaire Noumbi, who says he is the
Chairman of the Cameroon Federation of Engineers, asking for help to
understand and fix the problem.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/cameroon2.html
09 Aug 2006
A recent
message on Circle ID
notes that Cameroon in west Africa has added a wild card to its .CM
country domain.
This means that anyone who tries to type something.com into his
browser and types something.cm instead will in most cases end
up at the web site the wild card points to, similar to what Verisign
did with their infamous Sitefinder a few years ago. (I say most, because
if you type the name of an actual .cm domain, you'll end up at that
domain. More about that later.)
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/cameroon.html
08 Aug 2006
With all of the recent excitement about *.cm, the Cameroonian wildcard
that someone is using to collect vast numbers of mistyped .com addresses,
I wondered how many other wildcards there were at the DNS top level.
There's a total of 13.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/morewild.html
03 Aug 2006
I spoke last year at the Oxford Internet Institute on Internet
Governance for Dummies, trying to lay out both what on the 'net
needs governing (IP addresses and domains, if you know what they are),
and who governs it, mostly ICANN with a large set of supporting characters.
They taped it, so you can visit
the
OII's web page for the talk where you can choose streaming video or
downloadable MP4's.
When I returned this year the OII people told me that this is one of
their most popular videos.
Let me know whether or not you like it.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/igov4dum.html
In late June I paid a visit to the Oxford Internet Institute, where they
offered me the chance to talk about whatever I wanted. This year's talk
was on Internet Security: Legend or Myth. The blurb said:
The Internet is sort of like a town where your local crack house can
put up a front window that looks just like Boots, and teenagers can
hotwire most people's cars and start playing bumper cars on the
M40. Is this a place that anyone would want to visit, much less live
in? What can we do about it?
I thought it went pretty well, but you can watch it and
decide for yourself.
Visit the
OII's web page for the talk where you can choose streaming video or
downloadable MP4's.
Free video bonus: at the beginning of the talk, Ted Nelson introduces me.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/legendormyth.html
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