Since ICANN took over in 1998, we have experienced a net loss of top-level domains despite the publicized introduction of a few new ones.

The French protest a proposed law that makes the Digital Millenium Copyright Act seem tame; two new French blogs of interest

I plug my interview in which I plug Names@Work

.XXX delayed; no vote on ICANN-VeriSign appeasement until March; the Giggle Test; Timeless quotes

ICANN settled its suit with VeriSign, but at the meeting in Vancouver it gets served with two more lawsuits alleging antitrust and price-fixing in connection with the ICANN-VeriSign agreement.

While even ICANN’s most loyal supporters are demoralized by its latest deal with VeriSign, the view from Tunis, where the U.N./ITU-sponsored WSIS meeting just finished, is even more dismal.