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Ethos Capital senses that ICANN will deny their sweet .org acquisition deal and starts making promises left and right. Or they just made a deal with ICANN to makes these promises so that ICANN approves …

After the announcement of the Uniregistry acquisition by GoDaddy some people commented that the acquisition price would be around $50m to $100m. I don’t think the price was near this level. Here is my (extremely) …

Please act now. The comment period for the proposed price increases of .com closes tomorrow Friday, February 14, 2020. I could have written a lot more about this as I wrote about .org but I …

I have bought no domains this year. This is for sure my biggest purchase drought since I started buying domain names in 2002. I have not been extremely active in expired auctions lately but I …

I won the auction for a domain name at GoDaddy expired auction on the 25th of January. I paid $1,500+ for it and while I wanted to share my purchase something was holding me back. …

We all got it wrong people! Read this to understand how ISOC saved PIR and .org from starving to death!!! According to a Mike Godwin, ISOC and its board of trustees saved PIR and the …

Adam Dicker proved once again his trustworthiness by not showing up at today’s scheduled live video interview on YouTube. The live video started with the interviewer from 27.be stalling for about 10 minutes talking about …

Has everybody gotten their money owed by Adam Dicker? If I get 10 comments that say yes and not a single no, I will delete this post. But I think I know the answer… He …

ICANN and Verisign announced today the proposed amendment to .COM registry agreement. Verisign and ICANN agreed to amend the .COM Registry Agreement to permit an increase to the price for .COM registry services, up to a …

Packet Clearing House sent a letter warning ICANN about the Operational Stability of the .ORG Domain. In short they claim that unless prices are increased significantly (more than 10% as claimed) the buyer of the …

Access Now published an infographic on Twitter about saving the .ORG extension. “It’s not too late to #SaveDotOrg. This infographic explains why civil society across the globe is fighting to stop the sale & keep …

You can’t trust Ethos Capital with .org. You can’t trust them with anything. Anyone giving Ethos Capital a voice is doing a big mistake. It is ICANN that needs to be asked some hard questions …

ICANN pretends to care Göran Marby, ICANN President & CEO and Maarten Botterman, ICANN Board Chair issued an update about .org yesterday saying that: “According to the .ORG Registry Agreement and our processes for reviewing …

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doesn’t care about the thousands of comments, tweets, articles, petitions and opinions. Submitting comments and signing petitions achieves nothing. Like nothing was achieved by the 3,200 …