...especially if you're a conspiracy theorist from outside the United States.


Yes, there it is, hidden in plain sight: the real U.S. agenda for control of the root. :-)

This is just about the best offer I've seen in a long time: write ICANN's RFP for new gTLD applications. How cool would that be?

Read this, my latest on Name Brief, before you cash out your Fidelity Magellan fund in favor of domain names.

I'm a fan of the iLife publishing tools, which until today only one-click uploaded files and sites to a .Mac account. According to Apple: "You can now publish web sites directly to your own personal web address (or domain) with just one click. To do it, you’ll need a registered domain name that you control, along with iWeb ’08 and your .Mac membership. If you don’t already own a domain, you can buy one from the domain registrar of your choice (.Mac doesn’t sell domain names). Then log in to www.mac.com, go to Account, select Personal Domain, and  follow the instructions."

My new web journal, Name Brief (http://www.namebrief.com), is down. I have no idea why. Will troubleshoot soon....

You were waiting for this, weren't you? It's 101 pages. So what are you waiting for now? Read it already.

Denise Howell has an interesting piece on what she is calling "socialsquatting." On the Internet, no one knows you're not really Chris Pirillo?

Because that's the night I'll be at Dodger Stadium for the boofest.

If you're interested in RealNames, the domain name, you'll love Real Names, the code base. See Keith Teare's comment to yesterday's post.

Every day, 365 days of the year, Pool.com cherry-picks the best of each day's deleting names and features them on a "hot" list on its home page and in emails to Pool.com members. Here's the "hot" list for Sunday, July 29, 2007: girlsfight.com, travolicty.com, exspidia.com, 3dsmax.com, porstarbook.com, travelolcity.com, exdedia.com, travelocy.com, travelolicty.com, travelicty.com.

You got it: 8 of the top 10 "hot" names are typos.

RealNames has returned...as a domain name up for auction next month at the Domain Roundtable Conference in Seattle (see item no. 151 on the preliminary auction list). Web companies never really die....they just sell their domain name to someone else.

Name Intelligence is holding an auction next month in conjunction with its Domain Roundtable conference. They just published their first list of names that will go on the auction block. If I were buying, I'd go for autobiography.com (no. 21 on the list). What a terrific name for an online site. To my way of thinking, the potential to build a successful company (and one of those TechCrunchy Web 2.0 companies to boot!) is much greater with autobiography.com than with the other names on the list.

So anyone want to lend me $250,000....?