Barriers to entry.  I am a big fan.  My goal is to get into a business when the barriers to entry are low and hope that the barriers get much more difficult with time.  When we moved into the garden center and landscape business back in the 80s it wasn’t as tough. My Dad and [...] Continue reading →

The transition from Thin to Thick WHOIS is well underway and I want to provide you with an update on the progress and recent developments. First, I want to acknowledge the efforts of the Thick WHOIS Implementation Review Team (IRT), registries, and registrars who are working together to complete what needs to be done for [...] Continue reading →

The inaugural Barbados IGF came to a successful conclusion on 23rd June 2017 with substantial coordinating, technical and facilitating input from ICANN fellows Ashell Forde, Jason Hynds, and Bartlett Morgan. The hosting of the IGF in Bridgetown Barbados marked a significant milestone on a journey formalized between ICANN and the Caribbean Telecommunication when ICANN CEO [...] Continue reading →

Imagen: www.1and1.com La industria del software está en continuo desarrollo, por eso los negocios de este sector cada día innovan y ponen la vista en él. Así, se ha detectado la necesidad de crear la extensión .software, que va a permitir promocionar estos productos a nivel online. Con la misma los que dispongan de una [...] Continue reading →

It’s a question that comes up a lot when people are looking at one-word domain names. In most cases it’s pretty clear if the singular will sell for more than the plural. Here are a few examples where the singular is without a doubt (or without any doubts from me for whatever that’s worth) the singular [...] Continue reading →

Rick Schwartz is on the war path. After a Danish company was found guilty of a Reverse Domain Name Hijacking attempt against his Queen.com - Schwartz is going after the perpetuators. [...] Continue reading →

GoDaddy removed the auction for RapeKids.com on their platform today. Lance @tldn had tweeted @WtfDomains with a link to the auction, @DNUpdate retweeted it with a message and Noah Plumb who has the super cool handle of @no took care of the situation. That’s not right. We took it down and are looking into how [...] Continue reading →