Abstract: This essay explores why the United States is relinquishing an important source of power over the Internet, and what this means for both users of the Internet and scholars of global governance. The Internet began as a niche tool of engineers and academics, funded by the Department of Defense. Governance was loosely exercised by [...] Continue reading →

[news release] Public Interest Registry, the nonprofit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the management of its back-end registry services, concluding the Request for Information (RFI) phase of its procurement. Accordingly, all RFI participants — more than 20 in total, representing 15 countries — have [...] Continue reading →

EURid would like to kindly inform you that the 2016 .eu Web Awards nomination period will close on 2 September 2016! Make your favourite .eu or .ею website a winner by nominating them for the Awards on their dedicated page: webawards.eurid.eu This news release was sourced from: https://eurid.eu/en/news/the-2016-eu-web-awards/ [...] Continue reading →

[news release] Effective at 16:00 UTC on October 1, 2016, Donuts will adjust downward the standard wholesale price for new, non-premium registrations in .BUSINESS and .COMPANY. This adjustment better aligns registration prices with emerging market pricing for fully generic TLDs and further facilitates their bundling into fixed price web presence and hosting [...] Continue reading →

Have a great Weekend, buy some names. Table of Contents Main List  NameJet LLLL.com’s Other LLLL’s Short Brandables Numbers One Worders and Other extensions Vape, Vegan, VR Main List Smaller.com Ends in 5 days, a site for little people to buy clothing The No Bid List CreditScoreFactor.com  How do they determine what your [...] Continue reading →

U.S. Presidential elections and the resulting Administrations can make an enormous difference on many levels and become profound points of inflection. This reality is certainly starkly visible today. Perhaps for the Internet community as well as the general public, some of the largely unknown events and actions surrounding the Internet and the Clinton team from [...] Continue reading →

Freetime.com – I wrote an article about how much I love two-word .COMs last night and this is a great example of a two-word .COM that will make a great brand. 11 years-old at $7,000 with 10 days to go. PokeFind.com – this normally wouldn’t be the kind of name that would catch my [...] Continue reading →