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Home 10 Aug 2008 ICANN Paints Themselves into a Corner ICANN ICANN recently commissioned a report from a domain auction company to see whether it would be a good idea to auction TLDs that have multiple applicants. Remarkably, the domain auctioneers came to the conclusion that auctions are a great idea, which they surely are for some people. But are they a good idea for ICANN? And if ICANN admits they can't evaluate competing applications on their merits, how can they keep the process from turning into another speculative land grab? See more ... posted at: 20:52 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./ICANN/icannauction.trackback 30 Jul 2008 Why we'll never replace SMTP Email An acquaintance asked whether there's been any progress in the oft-rumored project to come up with a more secure replacement for SMTP. Answer: no See more ... posted at: 05:49 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/stillsmtp.trackback 08 Jul 2008 Yes, you really have a zombie on your network Email A member of one of the mailing lists I read wrote in saying that one of his client's computers was on the CBL, a well known an extremely reliable list of zombie-controlled computers that send spam. He assumed it was due to bounce blowback, and was asking for copies of the messages that caused the listing. Even though the computer in question was a Windows box running Exchange that was also a NAT gateway to a local network, the Exchange logs didn't show anything, and he didn't believe the problem was zombie, He didn't get a lot of sympathy. Late in the conversation, Steven Champeon of hesketh.com, who heads the Enemieslist anti-spam project, sent a fine summary explaining what you do when you show up on the CBL. It's adapted here with his permission. See more ... posted at: 23:25 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/champ.trackback Why new TLDs don't matter ICANN Lost amid the furor about ICANN's rule change that may (or may not) lead to a flood of TLDs is the uncomfortable fact that almost without exception, the new TLDs created since 2000 have been utter failures. Other than perhaps .cat and .mobi, they've missed their estimates of the number of registrations by orders of magnitude, and they haven't gotten mindshare in the target community. So what went wrong? Users stopped caring about TLDs. See more ... posted at: 00:46 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./ICANN/notld.trackback 28 Jun 2008 ICANN to add new top level domains, World to come to an end ICANN The biggest buzz from the Paris ICANN meeting was that the board accepted last fall's proposal for a streamlined process to add new TLDs. A variety of articles in the mainstream press, many featuring inflammatory but poorly informed quotes (from people who probably got a phone call saying "We go to press in five minutes, what do you think about ICANN's plan to add a million new domains?") didn't help. When can we expect the flood of TLDs? Don't hold your breath. See more ... posted at: 19:23 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./ICANN/newtlds.trackback

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