20 years Two Decades Later Going-rogue Drakes 2018 Essay Now that it's old enough to drink in many states, a gentle reflection of the highlights of the ICANN-era dark ages and where we are now. commentary RConversation In resonse to Rebecca MacKinnon's July 15, 2009 post: 25yrs Adsmatter Cira-itu Eye-star-rock-star Internetnews In response to various blogs. delays 2011. Congress says "slow down". Never mind that haven't actually done anything yet. dns wars A long time ago in a place far, far away... dotcom The USG/DoC/NTIA was supposed to "devolve the NSI monopoly". Hows that working out in practice? eyestar Iana Icann Keeping tabs on those odd i* groups: IANA, ISOC, ICANN, IETF lobbyists Moving in the shadows An interesting bunch, lobbyists. newtld Telepathy, midgets and a sausage.

secdns Towards Secure DNS shills That's right I did some work for NSI. I wrote the diagnostics for the shared registry system you guys use every time you buy a domain. I'd written these kinds of diagnostics for 20 years so it was sort of a natural. They also sent me two three plane tickets: 3 for the remaining two IFWP meetings after our group didn't show up at the first conference partially due to lack of funding - the other reason was out belief this should be done on the net, the event was being cybercast by the then young Berkman Center for Law and Technology at Harvard University. They also bought me a plane ticket to the Berlin first ICANN meeting as they had asked me to be one of their representatives on the names council. The ICANN board instead retroactively changed the bylaws is secret and disqualified me. For this involvement I was referred to as "NSI's shill", which is of course patently false. I only ever spoke my own opinions and in fact differed with NSI in several major areas of domain policy. But, we were both of the realization that an ICANN run by a non-elected board was a dictatorship that would make things very difficult for the people already suffering an abuse of due-internet-process because of the trademark community. squatruce A truce in the cybersquatting war? tlds List of top level domains. tldtya DNS Antogora - ten years after Written in response to http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/09/jaron-lanier/the-gory-antigora/ tm wsj Travel Comments on Wall St. Journal articles. www A fashion statement.