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2016-11-09

LIVE Breaking Video: Trump Headed to White House, Market Recovers

UPDATES Nov 9, 2016:
ELECTION 2016: LIVE Coverage & Analysis

Global News and LIVE Coverage of U.S. Election on Bloomberg TV--Bloomberg's LIVE coverage of the U.S. election--breaking election news and analysis throughout the evening as polls close and states are called for Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. Also key Senate and Congressional races.

New York Times at 12 midnight ET Election Night:


Real Clear Politics Results

New York Times Results




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2016-11-05

TechReview: Alibaba $BABA & Facebook $FB Q3 Stellar Results A #FAIL?

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Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Feature • This past week Q3 2016 reports from two of the biggest tech companies in the world, Alibaba Group and Facebook, each showed stellar results for the quarter:

•  Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) sales of $5.14B beat estimates as cloud revenue more than doubled, sales from the new digital media and entertainment division quadrupled, more at Alibaba Group $BABA Q3 2016 Results, LIVE Webcast Nov 2 Replay.

•  Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) reported revenue of $7.01B (+55.8% Y/Y) beating consensus estimates by $90M, and Q3 EPS $1.09 which beat the consensus by $0.12, more at Facebook $FB, GoDaddy $GDDY, Q3 2016 Webcasts, Nov 2, 5pm ET.

Nonetheless, the market wasn't impressed:
Alibaba Group $BABA 5-day Chart
Facebook $FB 5-day Chart

On the other hand, maybe both stocks got caught up in the U.S. Presidential pre-election jitters: S&P 500 index marks its longest losing streak in 36 years | WashingtonPost.com: "... retreat of the stock market ahead of the 2016 election continued Friday, with the market falling for a ninth straight day. Wall Street is now in its longest period of decline in more than three decades [since 1980 when Ronald Reagan won over Jimmy Carter]. Investors continue to focus on the U.S. presidential election, which has become too close for comfort for some investors ... "

Translation: Wall Street thought "the fix was in" and this year's election would be a Hillary Clinton Coronation. A proven stock market metric (86% accuracy since 1928), the S&P 500 index, is signaling Donald Trump will win the election.  

Other Tech News:

•  Google: Oh Schmidt! - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | SeekingAlpha.com: "As Donald Trump cut into Hillary Clinton's lead in the polls this week, Wikileaks revealed how Alphabet (Google) executive chairman Eric Schmidt offered extensive help to Clinton's campaign."

•  Huma Abedin doesn’t know how those thousands of Clinton emails ended up on Weiner's hard drive, but we do: If you set up Yahoo on Apple Mail or Outlook or any of the other services, it will store a copy of your email on the hard drive.--McClatchyDC.com

•  Wikileaks Has Chilling Effect on Ambassadorships for big donors including "super bundlers at [Hollywood] studios, networks or agencies"--HollywoodReporter.com

•  How dominant is Amazon? "According to a 2015 survey from Bloomreach of U.S. and U.K. consumers about their shopping habits over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, for example, 87% of U.S. and 90% of U.K. consumers said they would check Amazon at least once during their shopping process. 47% of U.S. and 46% of U.K. consumers said they’d check Amazon for 50% or more of their holiday purchases."--WebsiteMagazine.com

•  Google Cloud? Bloomberg.com: Google was once a cloud pioneer, having spent years stringing together data centers to support its search business. But it squandered that lead by allowing others to market such infrastructure as a service first. Alphabet, Google’s parent, is now intent on narrowing the gap with Amazon.com and Microsoft, in large part because it needs to build a reliable revenue stream that doesn’t come from ads ..." What happpened? 1) Google lost its focus under the leadership of the 'Billionaire Boys' Larry Page & Sergey Brin who were more interested in their money-losing Alpha Bets; 2) Google DNA: “The perception from people is that Google is still quirky to use. It’s like everyone is speaking standardized English, and Google [is] the French speaker.”--Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare.com

•  Has Apple $AAPL lost its way? Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for | Medium.com. See also: Smartwatch is Dead, Market Implodes, Apple Watch Shipments Collapse | Wolf Street.com: "Apple Watch is still the market leader with a 41.3% share, but shipments collapsed by 71.6% year-over-year, to just 1.1 million watches, down from 3.9 million a year ago. "

•  Google Pixel Camera Flaw Angers Users | forbes.com: "... some users in the same thread remain unconvinced, stating that other types of flare, not covered by the fix, are in evidence from the Pixel’s camera ..."  See also Why Google’s New Phone Will Soon Be Irrelevant | Fortune.com.

•  How smartphones made Shenzhen China's innovation capital | Vox.com: it's all about “consumer-grade smartphone technology.”

•  Why Slack may live to regret its smarmy letter to Microsoft | TheVerge.com "... there’s nothing to be gained from posting disingenuous open letters to the competition."

•   Google disputes EU antitrust charges saying "the Commission had failed to take into account competition from Amazon, merchant platforms, social media sites, mobile web and online advertising by companies such as Facebook and Pinterest."--CNBC.com. See also Google's Travel Business Is Already Twice the Size of Expedia's | Skift.com.

•  Good Cybersecurity Doesn’t Try to Prevent Every Attack | hbr.org: "It’s far more important to focus on two things: identifying and protecting the company’s strategically important cyber assets and figuring out in advance how to mitigate damage when attacks occur."


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2016-10-24

MacroView: Nationalism and Protectionism Now Rising In Germany

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Domain Mondo's weekly review of  macro economic and investing news:

 MacroView Feature • Protectionism: Behind the scenes, a new Germany AG (Germany Inc.) formed--welt.de: "Protectionism in Germany is no longer a dirty word." While nothing has yet been decided, solutions are being worked on “behind the scenes,” according to Die Welt and a follow-up in WolfStreet.com. Four events in particular are reported to have shaken German industry leaders:
  1. Deutsche Bank’s potential fine of $14 billion proposed by the U.S. Justice Department to settle allegations concerning mortgaged backed securities sold before the financial crisis by Deutsche Bank’s U.S. unit. The largest U.S. banks have already settled, and Deutsche Bank’s fine would not be the largest one.
  2. Volkswagen’s nightmare legal situation in the U.S., and, to a lesser extent, in other countries, as a result of  VW's dieselgate fraud.
  3. Acquisition of German robotics company Kuka by Chinese firm Midea.
  4. Proposed acquisition of lighting specialist Osram by Chinese firm San’an Optoelectronics.
Some German CEOs reportedly want a “conceptual revival of Deutschland AG” (Germany Inc.). Deutschland AG was a network of banks, insurance companies, and industrial companies in the latter half of the 20th century, largely dismantled in the 1990s. BDI’s Kerber told Die Welt: “We’re demanding reciprocity from countries like China. If the Chinese want to buy German high-tech firms like Kuka or Osram, then Germans must be able to completely take over Chinese enterprises too.” 

Relations with China have become increasingly difficult, these executives are reported to have said, as foreign firms cannot start their own subsidiaries in China but have to do it with local partners in joint ventures, and even then, technology transfers are required, plus foreign firms cannot takeover Chinese firms but are only allowed to buy stakes in them.

Question: if China (to take just one example), has continuously been following its own nationalistic and protectionist policies, why has the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its other member nations allowed it to do so? The rise of nationalism and protectionism, in large part, is a reaction to the failure of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and other nations (U.S. included), to hold China (and others) accountable. We may be at a "tipping point."

 •  The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms | Harvard Business Review | hbr.org: "Evidence of de-globalization ... is everywhere. This has significant and far-reaching implications for corporate decision making. Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks. Three trends characterize the environment within which global businesses must contend: rising trade protectionism and a concomitant fall in global trade volumes, declining cross border capital flows, and mounting regulatory requirements. As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. According to the World Trade Organization, international trade this year will grow at its slowest pace since 2007."

•  Stock Prices Under Threat as Global Trade Becomes a Pariah | WSJ.com: "... there is worry that the party is ending. “We believe globalization has probably reached its peak,” said Marino Valensise, head of the multiasset team at Barings, a member of the MassMutual Financial Group with $275 billion in assets under management. “The market won’t like it.”"

 •  Canada Walks Out as EU Trade Talks Founder: "... unable to break a deadlock with a small Belgian region that has been defying multinational efforts to have the pact signed next week."--NYTimes.com. See also EU Leaders Predict Dire Future if EU-Canada Trade Deal Fails: "Fearing final rejection by a small Belgian region, leaders of the European Union warned early Friday that if a free trade deal with a close partner like Canada fails it could mean the end of such agreements with any other country."--NYTimes.com

 •  Rail rout sending bad signs about the US economy? "On a global level, the school of thought that the health of railroad stocks tracks the health of the overall economy may hold true. "When you think of it from a global macro perspective, we are starting to see some serious cracks in global growth," Boris Schlossberg, managing director of FX strategy at BK Asset Management, said Thursday on "Power Lunch." Schlossberg pointed to a miss in industrial production in China this week, a "massive" miss in Australia's employment numbers and central bank leaders' recent warnings about "structural" issues with global trade, referring to recent remarks by Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz. "So there are clearly some warning signs out there that I think something is slowing down, whether it just simply pauses and refreshes, or really we're going to start to fall off a cliff; I think is too early to tell," Schlossberg said."--CNBC.com

•  Fed risks repeating Lehman blunder, US recession storm gathers: "... The truth is that nobody knows whether this is the start of a sustained reflation cycle, or just the last feeble flicker before America, Europe, and East Asia are swallowed into a deflationary vortex, the frozen circle from which there is no easy exit ..."--telegraph.co.uk

•  Amazing Down Spiral of Atlanta Fed’s Q3 GDP Now Forecast | : "By now no one even tries to trot out the illusion of hitting “escape velocity” next spring."--WolfStreet.com

•  EVs vs Big Oil: A move away from oil as a transportation fuel could send global oil majors, such as ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total, and Royal Dutch Shell, into an “investor death spiral,” says a new report by Fitch Ratings.  Transportation accounts for 55% of oil consumption. “Widespread adoption of battery-powered vehicles is a serious threat to the oil industry ... [and] could tip the oil market from growth to contraction earlier than anticipated.”--FitchRatings.com

•  China's Venture Capitalist Local Governments: "Local governments across China are getting into the venture-capital business, deploying a combined 3 trillion yuan as the Communist Party resolves to modernize the economy and reduce debt-fueled spending on infrastructure. The money is meant to spur development of biotechnology, internet and high-end manufacturing companies that can replace the stumbling heavy industries sapping economic growth."--Bloomberg.com

•  Q3 2016 financial results coverage this coming week on Domain Mondo:
  • Apple AAPL Oct 25 5:00pm EDT
  • Neustar NSR Oct 27 4:30pm EDT
  • Alphabet GOOG Oct 27 4:30pm EDT
  • Verisign VRSN Oct 27 4:30pm EDT
  • Twitter TWTR Oct 27 5:00pm EDT
  • Amazon AMZN Oct 27 5:30pm EDT

 •  One More Thing: "Rigged"--Journalists shower Hillary Clinton with campaign cash | Columbia Journalism Review | CJR.org: "New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum, a Pulitzer Prize winner, spent the Republican National Convention pen-pricking presidential nominee Donald Trump as a misogynist shyster running an “ugly and xenophobic campaign.” What Nussbaum didn’t disclose: she contributed $250 to Democrat Hillary Clinton in April ..." See also: What WikiLeaks hack says about Clinton: Our view | USAToday.com: "Now we know why she didn't want those Wall Street speeches made public ... Sounding like an ardent free-trader in a 2013 speech, Clinton told one group of bankers: “My dream is a hemispheric common market with open trade.” This was consistent with her stance as secretary of State in 2012, when she praised the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as “the gold standard” of free trade agreements. By 2016, however, Clinton faced populist challenges first from Bernie Sanders and then from Donald Trump. She now opposes the TPP and has few good things to say about free trade ... Clinton had two ways to inoculate herself against any damaging leaks from her Wall Street speeches. One is that she could have released the transcripts months ago, inconvenient as that might have been. The other is that she could have turned down the speaking engagements in the first place ..."

 -- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo 

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2016-10-05

WikiLeaks.org Celebrates Its Domain Name Registration 10th Anniversary

WikiLeaks Top 10:

Video above published Oct 3, 2016 by WikiLeaks.org: "WikiLeaks has published 10 million documents over the last 10 years -- an average of 3,000 documents per day. What are the top 10? To support go to https://wikileaks.org/donate."

Tuesday’s anniversary party in Berlin commemorated the October 4, 2006, registration of its domain name wikileaks.org. WikiLeaks launched with its founder Julian Assange saying it would use encryption and a censorship-proof website to protect sources and publicize secret information, and it first caught the world's attention when it released manuals for prison guards at Guantanamo Bay.
WikiLeaks is often subjected to attacks, even by news organizations. “We believe in what we’re doing,” Julian Assange told Spiegel. “The attacks only make us stronger.”
Setting the record straight*:
1. Is WikiLeaks an “agent” of any government such as Russia? No.
2. Does WikiLeaks seek to play a partisan role in the US election? No.
3. Has anyone come to physical harm as a result of WikiLeaks publications? No.
4. Did WikiLeaks publish the details of millions of Turkish women voters? No.
5. Did WikiLeaks recently expose visitors to its website to malware? No.
6. Did WikiLeaks recently expose gay citizens of Saudi Arabia to increased danger? No.
7. Did the Democratic National Party break Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements on credit card record keeping and state laws on social security number storage by holding credit card details and social security numbers as carelessly as they did? Yes.
*For details see: https://wikileaks.org/10years/WikiLeaks10yrsPressPack.pdf 


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2016-07-03

News Review: ICANN56, RZMA & .COM, WS2, IANA Transition, $NAME

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Domain Mondo's review of the past week and look ahead [pdf]:

 •  ICANN56 policy forum meeting was in Helsinki this past week. For more, including the CENTR report and GAC Communique, read: ICANN56 Helsinki, ICANN Policy Forum, June 27-30, Info & Links | DomainMondo.com.

•  In the IANA stewardship transition, after a long, unexplained delay, ICANN published for review the RZMA (Root Zone Maintainer Agreement) between ICANN and Verisign, and published for public comment the .COM registry agreement amendment. For more read: ICANN Finally Publishes Verisign .COM Extension Agreement & RZMA | DomainMondo.com.

•  WS2 Timeline: at ICANN56 during a CCWG-Accountability session, the following timeline was presented for ICANN Accountability Work Stream 2 (WS2):
CCWG-Accountability Work Stream 2 (WS2) Proposed Timeline (source: ICANN56 session, June 26, 2016)
WS2 topics include: ICANN jurisdiction, human rights, diversity, IRP "Phase Two" (carry-over from WS1), Ombudsman, Guidelines on Good Faith Conduct in Participating in Board Removal Discussions, SO/AC accountability, ICANN staff accountability, Transparency, and Reviewing the CEP (as set forth in Section 4.3). For more go to WS2 - Enhancing ICANN Accountability Home | ICANN.org. The goal is to complete WS2 work by June 2017, and within budget ($8.8 million budget FY17). ICANN management and the ICANN community mismanaged "control of costs" in WS1 and the IANA transition planning during FY15 and FY16, with total reported expenses exceeding $28 million dollars. Now the ICANN Board has proposed "cost controls" upon the ICANN community for WS2. For more information read: Proposed Cost Control Mechanisms for Transition and Accountability Work in FY17 (pdf) and  News Review [12Jun]: IANA Transition Has Already Cost ICANN Over $28 Million | DomainMondo.com.

• U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte on Monday, June 27, 2016, wrote to Larry Strickling, NTIA, raising concerns including the IANA transition may be premature, unconstitutional, or illegal, and requested a response from NTIA by July 22. Read more at IANA Transition Premature say Grassley & Goodlatte in Letter to NTIA | DomainMondo.com.

•  NTIA's Larry Strickling responded to US Senator Marco Rubio by letter on June 27, 2016 (pdf) telling him that a delay of the U.S. government's handoff of some of the internet's technical functions is "unnecessary" and would have implications for the "credibility of the United States in the global community" but acknowledged that if all the transition work is not complete, NTIA can extend its contract.

•  Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed the IANA transition on June 27th in her Initiative on Technology & Innovation. While Republicans in Congress have raised concerns including whether the IANA transition is premature, unconstitutional or illegal (see above), Presidential candidate Donald Trump's position is yet unknown, although the Trump campaign's legal counsel is Jones Day, the same law firm that represents ICANN. Read more at Hillary Clinton Endorses Obama's IANA Stewardship Transition, Reaction | DomainMondo.com.

• Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners: "Pai and Goodman cited political correctness campaigns by Democrats as a threat. Both also said their agencies are becoming politicized and the liberals are using their power to push regulations that impact business and conservative outlets and voices."--WashingtonExaminer.com

•  Replace ICANN? China, Russia sign joint statement ... | Xinhuanet.com [Google translation from the statement]: "We maintain that all countries have the right to equal participation in Internet governance, in accordance with national law ... We propose the establishment of a multilateral, democratic and transparent system of Internet governance, support for the United Nations to play an important role in establishing the international aspects of Internet governance mechanisms." (emphasis added)

 •  Where Is China’s Internet Headed? | ChinaFile.com: "... In Xu Lin (Lu’s successor as Internet Czar), Xi Jinping has appointed someone he knows, he trusts, and he has worked with—someone who will make Internet policy even tighter and tougher ... The upcoming Wuzhen Internet Summit in November will be a chance for China to focus more on how to govern the Internet and to seek global allies. U.S. or European observers often forget that China is not alone in its fear of a free Internet ..."

• In the new gTLD .AFRICA litigation pending in U.S. District Court at Los Angeles, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal (interlocutory appeal of the preliminary injunction Order enjoining ICANN from delegating .AFRICA), dismissed party defendant ZACR has also filed an appeal, and ICANN amended its notice of appeal to include the District Court's Order denying ICANN's motion to reconsider. ICANN filed its opening brief June 29. Read more at ICANN and Dot AFRICA: Dismissed Party ZACR Files Notice of Appeal | DomainMondo.com.

• The Chairman’s Blog: The ICANN Ombudsman | ICANN.org: "The role of the ICANN Ombudsman ... is currently being examined in Work Stream 2 (WS2) of the CCWG-Accountability ... after five years as ICANN’s Ombudsman, Chris LaHatte’s contract comes to an end on 27 July 2016. Pending the conclusion of the community work, Herb Waye, the current Adjunct Ombudsman, will assume the role of Ombudsman, starting 28 July 2016 ... "

• NETmundial Initiative dead and gone? Former ICANN President & CEO Fadi Chehade's  personal vanity project--the so-called NETmundial Initiative--has apparently died and been buried without so much as a proper funeral. A meeting was supposed to occur June 8, 2016, but didn't happen. The website and Twitter account are still standing but appear to have been abandoned. Besides being a complete waste of ICANN resources, money and staff time, as well as outside ICANN's mission and scope, the project now serves as a good example to the ICANN community of dysfunctional leadership (former ICANN President & CEO), enabled by weak, inept corporate governance (ICANN Board of Directors). For background read NETmundial Initiative, WEF and ICANN Withdrawal, Consequences | DomainMondo.com (Feb 26, 2016).

• Who Really Cares About New gTLDs? | circleid.com by trademark, domain name, and internet lawyer Doug Isenberg: "... Many of the new registrations are speculative, defensive or infringing — none of which seems to be sustainable ... Ultimately, it seems as if a relatively small number of the now 1,000+ new gTLDs are likely to gain much traction ..."

• Dot GAY Update: Blog Update: BGC's Comments on Recent Reconsideration Request | ICANN.org: "Earlier this week ICANN's Board Governance Committee (BGC) recommended that the ICANN Board deny a Reconsideration Request from dotgay LLC, in which it objected to emails to authors of letters of support having been sent by an administrator at the Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) provider rather than an evaluator ... Four applicants for .GAY remain in contention (including dotgay LLC), and we look forward to the award of the .GAY TLD in the near future ..."

• June 30, 2016, marked the end of ICANN's FY2016 (ending June 30, 2016), but if past performance is any indicator, ICANN's financial disclosures to the "global multistakeholder community" as required by ICANN 's articles, bylaws, or applicable law, will be delayed, even beyond their "due date(s)." For more, including the ICANN FY2017 budget (ending June 30, 2017), go here: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/current-en.

•  Comments close this coming week at ICANN on:
1. Draft Restated Articles of Incorporation Close 6 Jul 2016 23:59 UTC
2. Draft Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC) Charter Close 10 Jul 2016 23:59 UTC

•  Verisign reported a domain name base as of  June 30, 2016: 127,424,320 .COM domain names; and 15,780,421 .NET domain names; for a total of 143,204,741 (.COM + .NET ). Note that Verisign reported, as of December. 31, 2015, a domain name base of registered domain names in .COM of 124 million names, and in .NET 15.8 million names. Therefore, net growth in registered .COM domain names over the past six months equals approximately 3.4 million names, while net growth in.NET domain names has been flat.

See also: Verisign: Time To Make Some Real Money | SeekingAlpha.com: "... VeriSign is a long-term play - its shares aren't for those looking to make a quick buck ... The company continues to see increases in revenue and cash flow on the back of its strong competitive advantages and business model. It's not every day you find businesses with a great moat like VeriSign trading at a reasonable valuation ... Notable shareholders: Berkshire Hathaway, Paul Singer, Ron Baron, Joel Greenblatt ..." and Active Equities to Watch in the Technology Sector | MarketWatch.com: "[VeriSign] stock finished Thursday's session 2.33% higher at $86.46 with a total volume of 979,071 shares traded. Over the last one month and the previous one year, the Company's shares have advanced 1.26% and 36.59%, respectively. The stock is trading above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages by 1.23% and 4.24%, respectively. VeriSign's stock traded at a PE ratio of 29.03 and has a Relative Strength Index (RSI) of 54.51."

• Brexit: read Brexit Postscript: FTSE100 Roars, Theresa May, Sword in Hand, Next PM? | DomainMondo.com.

• $Name in Play? follow-up: Rightside shares (NASDAQ: NAME] moved UP 15.45% this past week, closing Friday at $10.61. $NAME has not traded this high since 2014, its first year of trading following the spin-off from Demand Media, and the current run was losing steam by the end of the week. Unless there is further news from Donuts or Rightside management or other(s), Caveat Emptor [see Disclaimer].

*$NAME UPDATE July 5, 2016: Rightside® Board of Directors Rejects Donuts' Unsolicited Proposal--"Proposal Substantially Undervalues Rightside's Registry Business and is Not in the Best Interest of Shareholders"--$NAME (NASDAQ: NAME) shares UP July 5, 1:43 PM EDT at $10.75 USD +0.14 (1.32%).

•  Earnings Season: June 30th marked the end of the second quarter of 2016 (Q2 2016) so publicly traded companies will be reporting their Q2 2016 financial results over the next few weeks. Domain Mondo coverage will include 12 technology and domain name industry stocks:
  • Alibaba BABA
  • Alphabet GOOG
  • Amazon AMZN
  • Apple AAPL
  • Facebook FB
  • GoDaddy GDDY
  • Neustar NSR
  • Rightside NAME 
  • Twitter TWTR
  • Verisign VRSN
  • Web.com WEB
  • Yahoo YHOO
Scheduled release dates for earning results and webcasts will be posted on the stock links page.

•  Five most popular posts (# of pageviews Sun-Sat) this week on DomainMondo.com:
• 9 Other Reading Recommendations:
  1. Jurisdiction: The Taboo Topic at ICANN | The Centre for Internet and Society | cis-india.org: "The "IANA Transition" that is currently underway is a sham since it doesn't address the most important question: that of jurisdiction. This article explores why the issue of jurisdiction is the most important question, and why it remains unaddressed ..."
  2. Is ICANN “Jurisdiction Shopping”? | Lexology.com: "... where ICANN is formed – and therefore the general jurisdiction under which ICANN operates – has far reaching implications. This is especially so for individuals and corporations who are used to ICANN operating under predictable United States law, with all of its due process and human rights protections and appeal mechanisms. However, that could all be changing. At least one member of WS2 bluntly suggested that the WS2 group is “jurisdiction shopping.”..."
  3. Last August But Still Relevant: Transparency and Accountability in the ICANN Structure | ALAC | ICANN.org by Garth Bruen (last modified on Aug 21, 2015):  ... compliance is under the direction of ICANN domain business. This is a serious problem. The attached memo explains the situation and provides some suggestions for remedying the issue in order to ensure true accountability of ICANN especially as the IANA transition moves forward. As we consider IANA Transition work in the context of accountability and transparency to the stakeholder community I would encourage all to review the current structure of ICANN’s compliance functions. What ICANN has at the moment is an inherent conflict of interest in the management of compliance ..."
  4. Wise Chinese Domainer Advice: Is it really a domain upgrade? | coreile.com: "... In this internet age, a good domain name is paramount. A short, exact matching domain name on .com is the best choice because it requires the least effort for customers to remember both your brand name and where to find you on the internet ..."
  5. Cybersquatting complaints against .COM domains are dropping | DomainNameWire.com
  6. But maybe you don't need a domain name: China Digital Consumer Study 2016 | ChinaInternetWatch.com: WeChat [app] online shoppers to double in 2016
  7. So Hey You Should Stop Using Texts for Two-Factor Authentication | WIRED.com: "... Twitter, like other services that store your sensitive data, may soon be offering a second-factor option other than the rickety telephone line that SMS represents. And security-conscious users should take it."
  8. Death & Taxes: Google offices in Spain raided in tax investigation | telegraph.co.uk.
  9. Attention Apple $AAPL Investors: Everybody Already Hates iPhone 7, So Prepare To Buy Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) | SeekingAlpha.com by Scott Tzu: "We think the iPhone 7 is going to flop with sales and in the media, and we think peak hatred for this phone is going to create an extraordinary buying opportunity in the high $80's, prior to the iPhone 8 narrative beginning ..."
To those in the USA, have a happy 4th of July, and to all, have a great week!

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo

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2016-01-17

Dem Debate LIVE, 2016 Election, Twitter, YouTube, Trump vs Sanders?



NBC News-YouTube Democratic Debate LIVE:  "Scheduled for Jan 17, 2016 - Join NBC News’ Lester Holt, Chuck Todd and YouTube creators Connor Franta, Marques Brownlee, MinuteEarth and Franchesca Ramsey as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley debate in Charleston, South Carolina."  Pre-Debate coverage begins at 8pm ET with the actual debate scheduled to start 9pm ET [time converter].

WSJ: "... On Tuesday, Monmouth University had her [Hillary Clinton] trailing Bernie Sanders [@BernieSanders, berniesanders.com ] by 14 points in New Hampshire. Quinnipiac had her down by five in Iowa. The Des Moines Register poll has her ahead there, but by only two points. The Iowa caucus is still two weeks away, but if Mrs. Clinton’s campaign isn’t sinking, it’s obviously struggling."

 Domain Mondo doesn't usually cover US Presidential politics, but in this year of the IANA transition, it is worth keeping an eye on the 2016 Presidential race which has become interesting, apart from any possible IANA impact, due to  the surge in the Trump (Republican), and Sanders (Democrat) campaigns, respectively, as well as the impact digital and social media are having on the race, the electorate, and the candidates--clear winners thus far are Twitter and YouTube--even NBC has conceded to the cord-cutters and is streaming the Democratic debate LIVE tonight via YouTube (video above).

Donald Trump, although never having held elected office, is no stranger to the American electorate. He has been running a self-funded, low-budget campaign, with lean staff, a Twitter account (and other social media accounts), and a website at donaldjtrump.com (his organization reportedly owns 3000+ domain names, more info here and here). At first, some thought Trump was using his "run for President" as some kind of publicity gimmick and he would withdraw once things started to get serious. They were wrong. In spite of some of his earlier, more controversial comments, it's now become apparent Trump is serious, and increasingly it looks like he may become the Republican nominee--note the recent headline in Vanity Fair-- "It’s Becoming Harder to See How Trump Can Lose." If he does get the GOP nomination, "how and why Trump" will be a topic for pundits, historians, and political scientists, for years to come. The first caucuses are in Iowa (Feb 1), while the first primary election is New Hampshire (Feb 9) where Trump clearly leads in the latest New Hampshire polls. On the Democratic side, Clinton could win the Iowa caucuses only to lose to Sanders in New Hampshire where he leads in the latest polls.

A turning point in the Republican race may have occurred last week in South Carolina:

Video above: Cruz and Trump debate "New York Values" January 14, 2016

That was a real "knock-out punch" Trump delivered. In political parlance, Trump "went for the kill" and left Ted Cruz, a Princeton and Harvard debater, speechless, and politically speaking, bloodied and bruised, if not mortally wounded. Even the Cruz "birther" issue has started to gain traction, read this. The fallout from Cruz's attack and Trump's counter-punch reverberated across social media:


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