New mobile domain another bad idea
You may have seen a new proposal for a "mobile" top-level domain name for use by something called "mobile users" whatever they are. (The domain will not actually be named .mobile, rumours are they are...
View ArticleMore on generic domains, and poli-spam
There has been some discussion of the generic domain proposal on slashdot (alas mostly incorrect because they didn't read the underlying essays.) The posting here was also posted on CircleID a DNS...
View ArticleICANN moves towards .XXX (+.JOBS, .TRAVEL) -- Even worse ideas
I have written before about what a terrible idea it is to generate top level domains that are generic, and have a meaning, because they create artificial monopolies over real words and generic terms,...
View ArticleICANN Announces ".polinc" TLD for politically incorrect and dangerous-opinion...
ICANN is pleased to announce that the independent evaluation process, which began last year, has resulted in a further sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD) application moving to the next stage.As the...
View ArticleWSIS and the splitting of the root
There’s talk that in the battle between the USA and Europe over control of ICANN, which may come to a head at the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, people will seriously...
View ArticleOn the two-tier internet
Of late there’s been talk of ISPs somehow “charging” media-over-IP providers (such as Google video) for access to “their” pipes. This is hard to make sense of, since when I download a video from a...
View ArticleThe true invention of the internet, redux, and Goodmail/Network Neutrality
I wrote an essay here a year ago on the internet cost contract and how it was the real invention (not packet switching) that made the internet. The internet cost contract is “I pay for my end, you pay...
View ArticleBaby Bells announce new "GoodPackets" program to charge for access
New York, March 22, 2006 (CW) Bell South and AT&T, two of the remaining Baby Bell or “iLec” companies announced today, in conjunction with GoodPackets Inc., a program to charge senders for...
View ArticleRemaining neutral on network neutrality -- it's the monopoly, stupid
People ask me about the EFF endorsing some of the network neutrality laws proposed in congress. I, and the EFF are big supporters of an open, neutral end-to-end network design. It’s the right way to...
View ArticleReplacing the FCC with "don't be spectrum selfish."
Radio technology has advanced greatly in the last several years, and will advance more. When the FCC opened up the small “useless” band where microwave ovens operate to unlicenced use, it generated the...
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