Contributions - ICANN

ICANN opened the forums for the latest gTLD Guidebook draft in October and closed the commend period yesterday. As always, both very relevant and constructive support and criticisms were lent to the board along with misleading commentary, personal slights and offhand remarks. A larger body of authors have added their thoughts to this latest round and even some noted firms have made their expectations clear.

Among the list of larger corporate entities making contributions to this comment period were Yahoo! Inc., Neustar, Demand Media,, GoDaddy, AT&T, IBM, Visa and Nokia.

Also adding their weight were some frequent contributors including George Kirikos, CADNA and the ICA.

Of note were the number of comments from companies branding themselves ".TLD" or "DOT-TLD" representing their expected gTLD which they hope to be awarded in the future.

As usual we added our comments, this time in regards to the notable open language of gTLD pricing which leaves a gaping hole for Verisign to raise rates on .com and .net domains to hundreds of dollars per year without restraint.

Here are the links for general comments as well as our comments on gTLD pricing.