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Home :: ICANN 24 Nov 2024 Is Verisign a monopoly? Does it matter? ICANN Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jerry Nadler recently wrote a latter complaining that VeriSign overcharges for for .com domains due to its market power and sent it to the Department of Justice and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA.) While you can make a reasonable case that the claim is true, two more interesting questions are ``Why now?'' and ``Why bother?" See more ...   posted at: 15:38 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/vermonop.html 04 Jun 2020 ICANN Approves Dot XXX Again ICANN At Friday's board meeting, ICANN once again narrowly approved the contentious .XXX domain intended for pornography. What this vote primarily shows is that ICANN's processes have been broken for a long time, and aren't getting fixed. See more ...   posted at: 22:51 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/xxx11.html 27 May 2019 Dead TLDs break 50 ICANN Last November I wrote a post observing that with .DOHA and .ZIPPO handing back the keys to their TLDS, the count of abandonded TLDs had reached 45, and I wondered how much other destroyed value was hiding in new TLDs. See more ...   posted at: 17:20 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead50.html 22 Apr 2019 Dead TLD Update ICANN Last November I wrote a post observing that with .DOHA and .ZIPPO handing back the keys, the count of abandonded TLDs had reached 45, and I wondered how much other destroyed value was hiding in new TLDs. See more ...   posted at: 18:38 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/dead47.html Domain Name Variants Still Won't Work ICANN ICANN has spent years trying to figure out what to do with domain name variants, strings that look different but mean the same thing, for some definition of "the same." They've been trying to deal with them in second level domains for a decade, and are now working on rules to allow variant top-level domains. Unfortunately, variants don't work. The problem isn't putting them in the DNS, it's that once they're in the DNS, they don't work anywhere else. See more ...   posted at: 16:14 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/variantno.html

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