January, 2009

Interview with Bart Lieben, Trademark Verification Expert

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Bart Lieben is the world’s expert in trademark verification for the Sunrise Periods of new top-level domains. I conduct an extensive interview about his services, and he reveals a plan to make trademark verification cheap and easy.

That Letter to ICANN from the NTIA

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

A letter to ICANN from the NTIA, the part of the Department of Commerce that watches ICANN, has caused a lot of speculation about whether the new TLD process would be stopped, or significantly slowed. I don’t see that happening.

AFNIC may lose .FR

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The French government is asking for bids to run their top-level domain, .FR, along with all the other ccTLDs that France controls.