On August 17, just one letter was posted in opposition to ICANN’s proposed changes to the domain name system.

The day before the public comments closed, August 27, forty-two letters in opposition were posted.

One the final day, starting from a standing start at 9 AM, we – and by “we” I mean readers of the Ken McCarthy blog – posted twelve full pages with sixty-two letters per page in opposition. That’s 744 letters – almost twenty times the previous day.

Here’s how we did it…

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Domain name madness…

Some people worry about the power of Google.

There’s only one force on the Internet that I worry about and that’s…

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A few weeks ago, AOL released the "anonymous" record of searches made between March and May of this year by 650,000 of its customers.

I put "anonymous" in quotes because it’s possible to identify some individuals by analyzing their search patterns.  Big scandal, so the data was pulled from public view, but before it was…

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Franchises – you get the right to use a brand name, some training, and the obligation to pay the home office forever.

A good deal?

I don’t think so, and yet the price on these things just goes up and up…

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This is what the Internet was like when I got started (pre-web.)

It’s amazing how much has changed – and how much hasn’t. 

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