The public comment period regarding the .COM renewal ends today (November 5, 2024). ICANN routinely ignores public input, and I expect that will continue with this comment period. Regardless, I’ve submitted a comment opposing to the .COM renewal, in order to be on the record. You can also read it here (PDF). NB: After reviewing […]
According to a financial filing today by the seller of the Rocket.com domain name, L3Harris: “For the quarter and three quarters ended September 27, 2024, includes $14 million of income net of related expenses from a domain name sale.” (page 29) Clearly, that is a reference to the Rocket.com domain name transaction. While I continue […]
https://freespeech.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NotebookLM-ICANN-IGO-PDP-20241005.mp3 (if you’re having trouble using the media player, the MP3 is here) In January 2023, I submitted extensive comments to ICANN, regarding IGO Issues and domain name disputes. There were 3 quite detailed PDFs in that submission (as there were other comment periods over the years), that many may not have read. Using the […]
Theo Develegas, the author of DomainGang, has a personal blog. He wrote about a .co.uk transfer today: https://acro.net/blog/enom-end-of-an-era-the-fastest-domain-transfer-ever/ which noted: What surprised me was the way .co.uk domains are transferred to another registrar, in this case Spaceship. After unlocking the domain, I went to Spaceship to begin the transfer out which required to copy an IPS […]
Prepare to be blown away! As regular readers of this blog will be aware, I’ve written extensively about proposed changes to the ICANN Transfer Policy. Last week, I blogged about my 2024 submission to ICANN. It also mentioned my previous extensive submissions in 2022. Today, I read about an interesting AI tool created by Google […]
