Here's an outline, by region. It contains all registrars except those located in the United States and Canada.

This is a work in progress. The nice thing about baking it in OPML is that it can be incorporated into other things.

Here's an immediately helpful example of outlining.

What nodes would you want to see in this?

What Is This?

The Hindustan Times: "The battle for Internet has begun and India is in the thick of it....Much of the problem with ICANN, as India sees it, relates to the umbilical cord that links this body to the US government."

ICANN President Paul Twomey in a speech to the WGIG: "We are working towards the completion of the MOU by September 2006 -- and to date have completed all milestones on or before the time stipulated."

The Number Resource Organization (i.e. ARIN, RIPE, AfriNIC, LACNIC and APNIC) presentation to WGIG: "The NRO does not see it as appropriate to view ICANN as a controlling body, a source of international regulation of the Internet, or a means of enforcing regulatory provisions."

P.S. It sure would be nice if the WGIG and UN and ITU folks would use HTML. Why is everything posted in Word and Acrobat format?

Catching up on a few items....

James Mitarotonda in a letter to Mitchell I. Quain, Chairman of the Board of Register.com: "We are writing to inform you that RCM Acquisition Co., LLC ("RCM") is willing to pursue a proposal (the "Proposal") to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Register.com, Inc. (the "Company") at a price of $7.10 per share in cash."

RCOM closed today at $7.15.

Reuters: "NeuStar Inc., the area code and telephone number clearinghouse, on Thursday set its planned initial public offering at 25 million Class A shares at an estimated price of $18 to $20 each."

ICANN today announced that its Nominating Committee had extended the period for nominations and submissions through July 20, 2005.

Old news: Verisign to keep .NET. 

This line of the resolution speaks volumes: "Whereas, numerous public comments concerning the applications were received electronically through ICANN's public comment forums and were posted." But did anyone read the public comments? I don't think so.

Whatever happened to the Manager of Public Participation? The reform process contemplated that this would be an important job. The position has never been filled. Shouldn't that person have summarized the public comments on . NET and made a presentation to the Board? By folding the public participation job into the PR job, ICANN seems to be saying that the "Manager of Public Participation" is really the Manager of Public Perception.  That's not good.

Brazil's Interministerial Group on the Information Society: "Despite the success in ensuring high availability and great stability to the operation of the network, the current structure for global governance of the Internet presents significant limitations."

Pat Trueman of the Family Research Council: "Nonsense."

You can't vote for the ICANN Board, but you can vote for the All-Stars. Vote for Izzy. Golden Glove shortstop batting over .300.

ICANN Press Release: "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 process for selecting new sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLDs) continues from a pool of ten applications, ICANN has now entered into commercial and technical negotiations with an additional candidate registry, ICM Registry, Inc, (.XXX)."

BBC News: "Paul Mockapetris, chief scientist at Nominum, has been given an ACM Sigcomm lifetime award. He is widely credited with creating the Domain Name System (DNS) 22 years ago."

ICANN Board Meeting today. The agenda includes discussions of .NET, .XXX and the Strategic Plan.

The GNSO is seeking comments on a draft policy document discussing the introduction of new registry-level services.

A proposed review procedure for ASO policy proposals.

Name Intelligence's Jay Westerdal: "The abuse is huge. Over 750K domains were registered in one day the other week! Then almost all were deleted in the 5 day free abuse period."

John Berryhill: "I have zero doubt that the 'problem' if any is best resolved between Verisign and its contracting parties."

See the whole (and very interesting) Registrar thread here.

Telecordia redux: Verisign, again.

Namescout: "Apply for your .EU domain now to ensure that you are part of the initial launch of .EU."

GoDaddy Press Release: "The Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of domain names, announced today that it recently won two top awards at the 2005 Domain Roundtable Conference in Seattle."

Toronto Globe and Mail: "Tucows is expanding its pasture."