You can't make this stuff up. Verisign, yeah that Verisign, is set to have a No. 1 hit song this week in the UK. It's based on the Crazy Frog ringtone published by Verisign subsidiary Jamba. The truly scary thing is that I suspect this will migrate to the United States. From the stories, it sounds like the next Macarena.

Speaking of crazy, Ross Rader has been sucker punched in the CIRA online elections. The idea that you can withdraw support previously given is a very bad idea...now exploited to the detriment of a candidate. You can't do that in real elections; once you sign your name on the ballot qualification petition, it's there. In ink. The CIRA folks ought to make sure that a digital endorsement has the same effect as ink.

Wendy Seltzer: "We worried about this kind of gaming when I worked with the early ICANN membership studies, but I hadn't seen it happen before. Instead, ICANN has gone so far in the other direction as to eliminate individual representation entirely. CIRA's prompt investigation can show that there's a better balance of representation and accountability."

Agenda for the next ALAC meeting (May 25th)

Agenda for the next GNSO Council meeting (June 2nd).

GoDaddy Press Release: "The Go Daddy Group, Inc., parentcompany of GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of domain names worldwide,announced today the launch of its newest venture, Radio Go Daddy."

Reuters story on IPOs of 2005: "Among other offerings backed by private equity firms that have filed for public offering this year are Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc., Neustar Inc. and Refco Inc." I'm planning to buy a little bit of Neustar stock. I don't know the price yet -- a big factor -- but I'm bullish on registration services generally, and Neustar seems like a solid play.