Last night's Radio GoDaddy is worth a link of its own. Bob Parsons, Tim Ruiz, Nima Jones, and David Lawrence talk about what the ICANN-Verisign deal would mean for registrars and registrants. Must listening. If you have iTunes, you can subscribe by clicking on this purple icon: . The RSS feed is here: . The whole show is entertaining, but the ICANN-Verisign conversation begins at 8 minutes, 30 seconds into the show. After the break, it resumes at 20 minutes, 15 seconds.  Nima Jones has a terrific question for Bob Parsons: "Do you feel disrespected?"

And the quote of the hour comes from Bob Parsons. What signal is ICANN sending to the world when it announces that this is a deal worth signing? "We are inept. Replace us."

Meanwhile, Marcus Faure reports to the Registrars: "I would like to alert those of you who have not been in the teleconf with ICANN staff last Monday that ICANN staff is convinced that the revised settlement agreement should be signed and that they will recommend this to the Board." Draw your own conclusions.

Happy Valentine's Day. Today's show starts with a review of last week's show, then moves to Internet Governance and this week's organizational meeting for the U.N.'s Internet Governance Forum. Finally a question: who represents end-users? Do they represent themselves only in the marketplace or is there a role for them in "governance" and "technical coordination" as well? (iPro Radio 72 | 12 Minutes).

Coming Thursday: Governing the Ungovernable.

What a terrific show. I'm grateful to my three guests who allowed me to bring a combined 25+ years of experience with ICANN to this podcast. The conversation started last week on this weblog when Anthony Van Couvering (Names@Work) posted this comment. Chris Ambler (Image Online Design) followed up with a comment. Then Elliot Noss (Tucows) followed up with a comment of his own. So I brought them together again on this podcast to continue the discussion around one broad theme: how will new registries roll out new gTLDs in a way that will expand the usable name space and bring in new registrants, not just sunrise registrants and speculators? (iPro Radio 71 | 42 Minutes).

Coming Tomorrow: An Investment in Registry Services.