Internet Pro Radio | icann.BlogAudio, News and Commentary on Internet policy, governance and legal issues.Greedy Domainer Slime- April 24, 2008 New post over on Name Brief, which was getting sort of dusty. Watch this carefully because it's a small version of the debate that will ensue if ICANN auctions TLDs and then proposes to do good deeds with the proceeds.http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2008/4/24/3658360.html Revisiting the Registry-Registrar Split- April 3, 2008 I found this bit from the most recent Board minutes intriguing:"Charles River Associates has been commissioned to undertake a study on....the market of maintaining or not maintaining the separation between registrars and registries."I didn't think the issue of "not maintaining" the registry-registrar split was even on the table for discussion. This comment came up in the context of a very interesting Board discussion on the staff's progress developing an implementation plan for new gTLDs, and...http://blog.lextext.com/blog/_archives/2008/4/3/3618519.html |