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."