Here are some of the topics up for discussion at this conference:
At this advanced–level conference, learn from distinguished authorities everything that you need to know about developing and protecting your clients’ brands on the Internet, including:
- The latest developments from ICANN, including the now confirmed rollout of new gTLDs in 2012 as well as the new tools available to trademark owners to protect their marks from misuses and abuse.
- Whether it’s time to review and make changes to the UDRP.
- The possible dangers and pitfalls of using a trademark as a gTLD.
- The root causes of IP backlash, and how to change misperception by consumers.
- How technology works in (1) social media websites, (2) searching mechanisms such as real time search and SEO, and (3) smart phones and mobile devices.
And in light of this new technology:
- How to develop social networking policies for the workplace and deal with the violations.
- How to use social media to develop and promote products and services.
- Cost–effective strategies for policing your brand on the Internet.
Wonder if Crocker will disclose the NEW DNS Software that makes ALL .COM domains into Top Level Domains ?
“Fate stepped in again. Don Heath, the president of the Internet Society, and one of my Dublin pub crawl friends, had conferred with Jon Postel (God on the Internet), and they had decided that it was time to restructure the entire domain name system. They had decided to create something called the International Ad Hoc Committee to do the job. Don had planned to appoint me as the representative of the International Trademark Association, but I could no longer take that position. Don appointed me anyway as a representative of the Internet Society.”
More ex-ICANN insiders preparing for the new age of DNS…
ZOOM //www.sedari.com/about-us/
Wonder if Crocker will disclose the NEW DNS Software that makes ALL .COM domains into Top Level Domains ?
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“the NEW DNS Software that makes ALL .COM domains into Top Level Domains”
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there is no charge to existing .COM owners
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Registrars may have to help some .COM owners (who lack clue)
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If your .COM nameservers remain unchanged (clueless) then other methods are used to locate the TLD – You will have First Right of Refusal via DNS queries not legal contracts or $185,000 fees
POST of the YEAR – How ICANN Plans to GO.AWAY
Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall
“The sad part of this being that ICANN’s repeated claim of increased business predictability for applicants will probably result in tens if not hundreds of ICM Registry mini-dramas for ICANN to resolve. However, the greatest long term threat to the legitimacy of ICANN will be those governments and intergovernmental organizations that have been critical of the private sector model, which will sit quietly on the sidelines with a big smile on their face and ask ICANN if it needs any more rope to which to hang itself.”
http://www.circleid.com/posts/bring_a_responsible_closure_to_the_new_gtld_process_the_home_stretch/
According to Esther Dyson – Founder of ICANN (via IBM’s proding)
“Because nothing like ICANN has ever been attempted before, its success is not assured, but because it seeks to embrace and build on the consensus tradition of the Internet, it has at least a chance to succeed. ICANN is intended to replace a highly informal, unstructured system where a very few individuals made key decisions about the future and direction of the Internet. Those individuals were remarkably wise and unselfish, and the fact that the vast majority of their decisions were in the public interest is evidenced by the very success and growth of the Internet itself. But individuals are not immortal, as we are so frequently reminded, and thus we need more permanent structures if we are to continue this tradition of consensus.”
By the way while most people are being DISTRACTED about Domains…
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Grab a front row seat for the stream of lies flowing here…
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http:// lists. arin. net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2011-August/date. html
from The.BIG.Apple
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the arin folks are just self-interested, that’s all. they are not stewards of a public resource, they are in business for themselves. so yes, they will bend the truth any way that’s suits them.
what’s that phrase they use to describe steve jobs’ “lies”? “reality distortion field”?
it’s a game of persuasion. the opponents are other independent thinkers.
arin wants to make the small no. of people who follow arin’s activities (“People”) to think like arin does, accept their “expertise” as guidance and acquiesce to whatever decisions they make.
but they, like ietf and other such groups, are spectators. things that become widely adopted happen outside their control. nat is great example. all they can do is react to what happens on the networks, produce an ex post facto rfc or other communication aimed at admins, and try to shape People’s thinking to (hopefully) influence the future. but the reality is, it’s futile. they might be able to control the majority of the People and many rule-following admins, but they can’t control the future. users, specifically users’ choices, control the future.
there’s most often a major difference between the actual users of the resources and networks and the hypothetical users and usage cases arin describes in their arguments. this is reality distortion. arin makes lots of assumptions about users. lots and lots of assumptions. and they keep doing it over and over, until People accept it as reality. alas, it’s all mostly speculation. zero evidence is presented; it may be impossible under current systems to even produce such evidence- addresses are not tied to physcial machines, nor are people tied to addresses. logs and captures cannot tell the full story.
there are ways around nat which work much better than stun or other proposals. but unless you can think outside the box and ignore the “experts” you may never realise they exist.
arin mailing lists are a waste of time.
think for yourself!
“the arin folks are just self-interested, that’s all. they are not stewards of a public resource, they are in business for themselves”
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Yes, a PRIVATE club – always has been – their way or the highway
The new mantra is ICANN is rolling out new TLDs – BUT they fail to mention all the good ones are Reserved or Taken
The $185,000 is little more than a background check and they plan to out-source that. The INTA Trademark Group Meeting will have no impact on their private club.
Check out the NEW ICANN Marketing Materials – now out as PDF Print Flyers
WOW – Applicants are going to be facing 18 months of “Evaluation” – that should give the Spooks a lot of time to rummage thru all your records
Applicants from China will probably be rubber-stamped. Love those ICON TLDs. How about a smiley face TLD ? 🙂
ICANN’s founding CEO – Mike Roberts
ICANN’s “Unelected” Crisis
http :// www. circleid. com/posts/20110905_icanns_unelected_crisis/
“At the core of the controversy is the question of how ICANN can claim legitimacy in the DNS world when none of its Directors or Officers are elected.”
“Scrutiny of the inner workings of ICANN shows domination by long time insiders whose own economic welfare is bound up in ICANN decisions. Representative democracy this is not.”
One question for Volume Domainers (More than 10,000 domains)
If THE.Community decides to ONLY resolve .COMs that paid the $185,000 and $25,000 per year, How does that impact Volume Players ?
To simplify, there are people who have been working the ICANN under.world for years trying to REMOVE .COM It appears they have succeeded. In 2012, ONLY
the High.Rollers able to pay the $185,000 and $25,000 per year remain.
BTW – That essentially makes ICANN the .COM (hidden) Registry. ICANN claimed they would never compete with Registries. Now they will have the important domains in .COM in their control.
It seems odd that people with a large number of domains would be such ICANN loyalists. The INTA TradeMark people may want to ask Crocker why their .COM has gone from $10 per year to $25,000 per year.
joe user here.
i have a question for the bigliesociety.
why should i use icann’s dns servers, with their morally offensive .xxx listing and exorbitant fees, when i can (no pun intended) use another set of dns servers located right here in my town or city?
like with a cdn, i get faster speeds from these local servers, except, more to my preferences, my local dns service leaves out the .xxx, they organise the web better for me making it easier to use, and they don’t charge prohibitive fees, so small local businesses i like can get good listings. plus they actually have a customer service desk staffed by locals.
i heard it takes less than 30 seconds to change dns settings, like changing email settings. is that true? why should i use icann’s dns servers?
“why should i use icann’s dns servers?”
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As surprising as it may seem, ICANN does not really have much in the way of DNS Servers (especially) for end-users.
ICANN sits way up in the Ivory Tower, dreams up contract lock-ins, collects fees, etc. They have stooges doing the heavy lifting on DNS servers (for free).
Your DNS likely comes from DNSMASQ software in your CPE router. That software can get DNS from a selected platform. Another layer of DNSMASQ is coming, plus billions of dollars in new software.
ICANN is fun to watch. They are not a serious long-term factor.
i thought that all those software applications get their initial “hints” at what domain extensions “exist” from icann? i heard software developers put these server ip numbers in configuration files by default and sometimes even hard code the numbers into their software. this gives power to icann. so if icann puts an entry for “.yyy” in their the appropriate file on their servers, then when a user types in example.yyy, these software applications recognise it as a domain name and process it (forward it on to other servers for resolution). so domain names we might enter ending with .yyy give us the ip number for the .yyy website we want, the .yyy email server, etc.
so are you suggesting that configuring or hard coding icann “hints” into software is on its way out?
i read that some people tried to introduce some icann alternatives many years ago but they were the wrong type of people (they were just trying to make money, like icann, not to improve things for users). and of course back then icann wasn’t pulling its own outrageous money-making stunts like this new gtld thing, or approving a dedicated pornography registry. i guess not as many people were as peeved by icann as today.
“so are you suggesting that configuring or hard coding icann “hints” into software is on its way out?”
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The % Market Reach of the Legacy Root Servers is rapidly going down.
People investing ?$? Millions ?$? in an ICANN Franchise might want to ask what guarantees they get
The U.S. FCC is going to be a big factor going forward because they have (wisely) decided to build NEW Internets rather than play the MLM Games.
Other un-disclosed but obvious technical developments will also be factors. Some people choose to put their head in the sand. Early railroad moguls likely did that when the automobile emerged. They had their plan, and lived the good life. Nothing wrong with that. About 50 to 60 people have gamed Round 1 and are cashing in and out. One Registrar did well.
Sept 21 22 – 2011
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Good timing for the _secret_ FCC Public (Open) meetings
People think people in Washington post the Real Agenda ?
http: // www. fcc. gov/events
Sept 22 Open Meeting
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By the way – the DUAL Venue is a common Legal Trick used by Attorneys
One.Man Trial attorneys find themselves in the wrong court room. A large firm can
have two attorneys in the court house, plus more on cell phones waiting.
Only the big boys can cover all the ICANN and U.S. Government agendas.
The FCC selected ALL of the 9 applicants who applied for the new Registry
business. Neustar and Google are part of the 9. Verisign apparently did not
risk their .COM in the game (yet). Microsoft has recently been selected by
the FCC.
Ten well-heeled companies vs Verisign (and their ICANN puppet)
Check out the new ICANN World.TOUR
The PR campaign for new Top Level Domains is Rolling.OUT
The ICANN CEO is touring the world in his final months ( on your nickels )
GUESS WHAT ? He is telling people “New TLDs are NOT likely for them”
Apparently ICANN is NOT selling Registry Franchises or selling anything
Crocker is likely to be singing from the same sheet (party line) to INTA