Opinions

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 …

Now that ParkingCrew is sold to CentralNic I am looking for a new domain parking company. I am looking for a reputable parking company that offers both 1-click and 2-click landers. I also need them …

A totally clueless company threatened Rick Schwartz with a Cease and Desist letter about one of Rick’s domain names: Prop.com. Here is what Rick said about this in a tweet: C&D Meets FU POS Wants …

The 3 companies involved in the .ORG domain name extension sale, PIR, Internet Society and Ethos Capital, created a new website about the .ORG sale: keypointsabout.org. This seems like a reply to the website created …

I guess you have by now heard the news about the .org extension being sold to Ethos Capital. A Medium post claims that there are more investors besides Ethos Capital and behind these investment firms …

I have a few important details and comments on Michael Sumner’s “Don’t Shoot for the Moon” post on Namebio.com about Mike Mann’s domain sales that people must consider. First of all I have to say …

I just got payment from Oliver Hoger for the money he owed me for a year for the attorney fees after he had his injunction denied. Just to make everything clear, the order for the …

ICA calls for ICANN to withhold approval of purported .Org registry sale. The original justification for awarding the .Org registry contract to ISOC was its public interest focus and commitments. If ISOC is no longer …

Oliver Hoger still owes me the attorney fees after 1 year since he lost in the Greek courts. If you don’t know what happened then please read these 3 articles: Namejet domain name auction front …

I am mad so all I can say today is that we got screwed as expected. .ORG just got sold to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital. Prepare for the $200 per year .org …

In the past couple of days I have received 3 similar offers for 3 completely different types of domains and extensions. All 3 offers were for $10k but the domains and my asking prices are …

What is front-running and how does it apply to domain names? Last month the 10-day auction for domain name detour.com was supposed to end at GoDaddy. The bids were above $30k but the domain was …

Many people have no respect for intangible things. Many people don’t understand how and why intangible things can cost (a lot of) money or simply pretend not to understand and play stupid to get a …