Showing posts with label domain names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label domain names. Show all posts
31 March 2013

Stop ICANN's Plans for Closed Generic Domains

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As I noted recently in the context of the BBC inexplicably supporting the introduction of DRM into the HTML5 specification, openness lie...
10 August 2012

ICANN Continues to Prove It Can't

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I have been writing about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, since its birth in 1998 (see the ICANN entry on...
28 August 2009

RMS: 1, Symbolics: 0

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Symbolics probably doesn't mean much to you, but it should. It was the main reason that Richard Stallman started the GNU project. You c...
08 April 2009

Time to Get Rid of ICANN

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ICANN has always been something of a disaster area, showing scant understanding of what the Internet really is, contemptuous of its users, ...
07 August 2007

Why ICANN Is Evil, Part 58697

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I've been tracking the goings-on at ICANN , which oversees domain names and many other crucial aspects of the Internet, for many years n...
22 June 2007

Funny Old Business.com

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This is just a test to see if anyone's awake, right? Entrepreneurs Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton were widely mocked for lavishing $7.5 m...
24 May 2007

The Internet is a Commons...

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...and these people are cutting down the trees. Great piece; sad, sad story.
27 July 2006

At Last! Opening Up the ICANN of Worms

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I have been writing about the Internet since 1994, and about ICANN , the body that oversees the domain name system, since 1999. Unfortunate...
21 July 2006

Something's Rotten in the Domain Name System

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Although I can't quite claim to go back to the very first commercial domain , I do remember the Wired story about how many major US c...