DNS Articles

SHILL

I was a teenage shill for NSI

Or at least that's how history was written. Here's what actually happened.

ANTIGORA response

A response to Jaron Lanier's essay The Gory Antigora

GLOBE

Why I can't believe the Globe & Mail any more

The Globe & mail interviewed me and got the quotes and opinions from me and my opponent mixed up.

PARTY time at ICANN

Party on Jon. Party on Vint.

A light hearted look at what happens to our friends at the ICANN mothership when there's an ICANN meeting across the road.

NEWTLD

Testing, testing, one-two-three.

Comments on the TLD test bed.

SLEEPING

Nap time

Part II of the visit to the ICANN mothership.

SALARY figures

ICANN CEO salary renumeration figures from the ICANN annual report.

IANA policy

Comments on IANA policy regarding single letter domains.

CLUB MED response

Response to the WSJ blogpost "Is ICANN Club Med for geeks".

CAPTURE response

Response to a slashdot post worrying ICANN could be captured. It already has been, and always was. Also documents dollar figures IBM bragged about spending on lobbyists to prevent new TLDs 1999-2000.

NTIA filing

Comments on the NTIA position vis. the JPA, July 2009

ICANN: use it or lose it.

10 years. No more excuses.

New TLDs impact on trademark problems.

DOC/NIST OSI debacle.