I transferred my domains out of Moniker yesterday.  Moniker used to be my second favorite registrar after Godaddy but I just didn’t feel comfortable with my domains there.  I’m sure most of the problems from the past few weeks would have been overcome but I need to consolidate my domains anyway.  It was pretty [...] Continue reading →

Justin Bieber used his extensive social media channels to plug a .tattoo domain name to his bazillions of “beliebers” last week, but so far the plug has had no impact on sales of the gTLD. The pop singer, beloved of 11-year-old girls worldwide, tweeted and Facebooked about the domain joker.tattoo, which leads visitors to his [...] Continue reading →

The Generic Names Supporting Organization has issued an “unprecedented” statement of “unanimous” support for a new way for ICANN community members to appeal ICANN decisions. All seven constituency groups signed onto a statement that was read by representatives of registries, non-commercial users and intellectual property interests at the ICANN 50 public forum last week. “It [...] Continue reading →

In Tony Li's article on path MTU discovery we see this text: "The next attempt to solve the MTU problem has been Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (PLPMTUD). Rather than depending on ICMP messaging, in this approach, the transport layer depends on packet loss to determine that the packet was too big for [...] Continue reading →

Google is spending part of their billions in profits on 100 new top-level domains and launching a new registrar, Google Domains.In this presentation, given at Google I/O 2014, Google provides an overview of their domain name plans for the future. Related Articles That May Interest You How to Sell a Domain Name – with Adam [...] Continue reading →

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Hello, happy Sunday, and welcome to my weekend musings. The last week was one of the busiest weeks of the last decade. Techstars, as a startup accelerator is doing exactly what I had imagined, accelerating us by thrusting us into the heart of the Austin startup, VC, and angel investing scene. It’s intense. We [...] Continue reading →