Are you listening to Radio GoDaddy yet? No? You need to add it to your subscription list...right now. The discussion of the ICANN-Verisign deal starts at 7 minutes, 30 seconds. Must listening.

Semi-live! ....it's the ICANN Press Conference to brief the world on the newly announced agreement with Verisign. Thirty-seven minutes of Q&A with ICANN's President Paul Twomey. I didn't hear anything on the call that was "news" -- not surprising if you remember Paul Twomey's famous GAC Communiques -- but it was interesting to hear a real live human voice describe why ICANN made the decision it made. (Press Conference of 1 March 2006 | 37 Minutes | 39 Megabytes).

I'm sorry Kieren McCarthy wasn't there. He's had the best take yet on the deal.

And Bob Parsons adds: "C'mon Vint — Please say it ain't so!"

Did you see that the ICANN Board approved the proposed Verisign settlement and .COM renewal? Of course, you did. Did you know that this means billions of dollars of revenue for Verisign? Of course, you did. Did you know I would spend 13 minutes and 20 seconds talking about it all today? Yup, you probably knew that too. On today's show, ICANN, at the Crossroads, gets run over by Verisign. (iPro Radio 73 | 13 Minutes).

Coming Tomorrow: Weaving It All Together: IDNs, New gTLDs, .COM, and IGF.