U.S. President Donald Trump vs Google $GOOG $GOOGL (video)

Trump’s Feud With Google

Fortune.com video above published Aug 30, 2018.

....results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2018

LIVE Feed (Editor's note: we've never had a President like this one before):
Tweets by realDonaldTrump

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ICANN61 San Juan, Puerto Rico: GAC Communique & ICANN61 Tweets

Editor's note: ICANN61 ended in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Thursday, March 15. Below is the GAC Communique issued March 15 by the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), as well as a selection of tweets courtesy of @sgdickinson.

1) ICANN 61 GAC Communique:

2) ICANN61 Report via Tweets

#ICANN61 Welcome Ceremony, Cherine Chalaby: the #ICANN Board is committed to acting, at all times, in the collective interest of all stakeholders and not in the single interest of a single stakeholder.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

#ICANN61 PublicForum 1, @icann_president: I have a lot of ideas, but I believe that as #ICANN CEO, the multistakeholder model isn’t something I should participate in. You, the community decide. I’m here to serve you.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

#ICANN61 Public Forum, Cherine Chalaby: there’s no way to completely de-risk the KSK rollover. Things will always break when you have a KSK rollover. But sometimes the risk of *not* doing the rollover is higher than the risk of doing it.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 15, 2018

#ICANN61 PublicForum 1, @JamilZahid: as chair of the NomCom, proposes that the currently non-voting, term-unlimited RSSAC and SSAC liaisons to the NomCom become full voting members of the NomCom and be term-limited.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

#ICANN61 Public Forum: the #metoo movement comes to #ICANN. A group of women from the community have documented experiences of harassment at ICANN meetings & will send the compilation to ICANN Board today (nobody called out by name in compilation).

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 15, 2018

GDPR / WHOIS:

#ICANN61 Cross-Community on #GDPR, Cathrin Bauer-Bulst of @EU_Commission: the accreditation system for accessing non-public Whois remains the biggest missing piece of the puzzle. We need a temporary solution to go live in May while we work towards a permanent solution.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

#ICANN61 Cross-Community on #GDPR, @NickWenbanSmith: @Nominet hasn’t published email addresses for .uk domains for decades, and it’s not been a problem. There are 12 million .uk domains. Nominet only receives ~10 queries a month for non-public data on domains.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

#ICANN61 Cross-Community on #GDPR, @NickWenbanSmith: a reform of the basic principle of blanket worldwide publication of registrant data, with no checks and balances, was well overdue.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

FY19 ICANN Budget:

#ICANN61 @icann_president: The draft FY19 budget is a starting point that we expect the community to criticise. And we will take your criticisms into account. Ultimately, it’s the community that makes the final decisions about #ICANN’s budget.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

#ICANN61 Welcome Ceremony, Cherine Chalaby: #ICANN Board will consider ALL comments made to the public comment period on the draft FY19 budget.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 12, 2018

#ICANN61 Public Forum, Cherine Chalaby: #ICANN's funding levelling off doesn’t mean we should panic or worry. The question is how we can be effective in our spending. We need to strike a balance between fiscal responsibility & the ability for community to participate effectively.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 15, 2018

#ICANN61 GAC: Peru insists Communique not only document no. of GAC members present in San Juan but also total no. of GAC members, to show how participation is dropping & to send a message to the budget process about need for (more) funding for travel assistance.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 14, 2018

CCWG-Accountability WS2 jurisdiction report:

#ICANN61 GAC, France: report of CCWG-Accountability’s Sub-Group on Jurisdiction took some viewpoints into consideration more than others. Feel the recommendations have not taken all positions into account. Therefore France also couldn’t approve the Jurisdiction recommendations.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 11, 2018

#ICANN61 GAC, Argentina & Portugal: like Brazil, also see the lack of anything addressing #ICANN’s jurisdiction in California as problematic, so also objected formally to the recommendations of the CCWG-Accountability’s Sub-Group on Jurisdiction.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 11, 2018

New gTLD .AMAZON:

#ICANN61 GAC, Brazil: after discussions at #ICANN60 on .amazon #newgTLD, Amazon sent a revised proposal to the govts concerned about their application. The govts r discussing it, haven’t yet reached conclusion, meet again on 27 March, with report planned by mid-April at latest.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 10, 2018

GAC vs ICANN Board re 2-letter country codes at second level:

#ICANN61 GAC, Brazil: Board’s 2016 decision to allow 2-letter registrations at 2nd level was a major change to previously existing way 2-letter country codes were managed at 2nd level. Board has not responded to procedural or substantive issues that GAC has raised about this.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 10, 2018

#ICANN61 GAC: Portugal, Argentina, China and France support Brazil’s intervention expressing dissatisfaction
with the way the #ICANN Board handled their decision to allow 2-letter registrations in 2nd level domains.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 10, 2018

#ICANN61 GAC, Singapore: supports Brazil’s intervention about the lack of due process regarding Board’s decision on 2-letter codes at 2nd level. Need to address this or similar incident could happen again.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 10, 2018

#ICANN61 GAC, Belgium: the Board’s decision to allow 2-letter registrations at the 2nd level has set a precedent - it set aside an established, agreed, procedure and has reduced trust in ICANN process.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) March 10, 2018

See also on Domain Mondo: News Review: ICANN61 March 10-15, San Juan, Puerto Rico (video of Public Forums, Board Meeting, ICANN Org Executive Team, and session on GDPR)

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Twitter $TWTR Q3 2016 Results, LIVE Webcast Oct 27 8am EDT

1-year chart of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR)

Twitter Inc.

Twitter is a U.S.-based online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Twitter's headquarters is in San Francisco, CA.  CEO is co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Stock exchange: symbol | NYSE: TWTR
Principal domain: twitter.com
Investor Relations: investor.twitterinc.com

To avoid conflicting w/ peer calls, we've rescheduled Q3’16 earnings release/call to pre-market on 10/27 https://t.co/njFKHWLDoe #TWTR $TWTR

— TwitterIR (@TwitterIR) October 24, 2016

Twitter, Inc. will release financial results for the third quarter of 2016 at approximately 7:00 a.m. EDT, on Thursday, October 27, 2016, before market open. On the same day, Twitter will host a conference call to discuss these financial results at 8:00 a.m. EDT. To have your questions considered during Q&A, Tweet your question to @TwitterIR using #TWTR.

LIVE audio webcast--Oct 27, 2016, 5:00 AM PT / 8:00 AM ET--Listen to webcast replay.

Twitter has used, and intends to continue to use, its Investor Relations website and the Twitter accounts of @jack, @twitter and @TwitterIR as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.

Q3 2016 Earnings: Q3 revenue totaled $616 million, an increase of 8% year-over-year, and. Q3 GAAP diluted EPS of ($0.15) and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.13, beat analysts consensus estimates. Stock was up in pre-market trading. A 9% (approximately) global workforce reduction was announced, which includes a regrouping of sales, partnership and marketing initiatives. The strategy announced by CEO Jack Dorsey is consistent with a company forging an independent path to profitability, with acquisition hopes now off the table:

 "Our strategy is directly driving growth in audience and engagement, with an acceleration in year-over-year growth for daily active usage, Tweet impressions, and time spent for the second consecutive quarter. We see a significant opportunity to increase growth as we continue to improve the core service. We have a clear plan, and we're making the necessary changes to ensure Twitter is positioned for long-term growth. The key drivers of future revenue growth are trending positive, and we remain confident in Twitter's future."--CEO Jack Dorsey

• Twitter Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call
• Q3' 2016 Shareholder Letter (pdf)
• Earnings Press Release (pdf)
• Slide Presentation (pdf)
• Selected Company Metrics and Financials (pdf)
• SEC Form 8-K (pdf)
• Twitter (TWTR) Q3 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

See also: 

• Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week | Bloomberg.com: October 24, 2016 "Twitter said to plan cut of about 8 percent of workforce."
• Twitter’s sales team is taking a hit in big upcoming layoffs | TechCrunch.com
• Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strategy in Internal Memo | Bloomberg.com
• Twitter $TWTR in Play: Is the Price Too High? (video) | DomainMondo.com (Sep 28. 2016)

Tweets by TwitterIR

Coverage on DomainMondo.com will include later on Oct 27th: $GOOG, $NSR, $VRSN, $AMZN

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Tweets and Post-hearing Notes re: Cruz Hearing on IANA Transition

For background see on Domain Mondo: 

• IANA Transition Hearing: Implications of Ending US Oversight of the Internet;
• U.S. Senator Ted Cruz vs ICANN and IANA Transition: Veni, Vidi, Vici?

Selected tweets from the twittersphere and commentary by Domain Mondo:

#IANAsteward @SenTedCruz: #ICANN’s past CEO, @Fchehade, made China a central focus for the org.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

At the time obvious to many of us as a strategic blunder made by the CEO while #ICANN board was missing in action https://t.co/LmofOGtOs1

— Jay Daley (@jay_daley) September 14, 2016

And that same #ICANN Board paid him a performance bonus on the way out the door!!! https://t.co/VOy3edIgX5 https://t.co/O78Fnea7R6

— Eye On ICANN (@EyeOnICANN) September 14, 2016

Dysfunctional ICANN leadership (e.g., former CEO and Board of Directors) together with lack of transparency are among the core reasons ICANN is not trusted by some members of the global multistakeholder community.

#IANASteward @SenTedCruz: it’s troubling we heard indisputable evidence today that transition would increase power of all govts except USA.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

Yes, in the IANA Transition plan, governments get a limited increase in power, but post-transition all governments (including U.S.) are equal inside ICANN, i.e., it takes just 1 government to prevent GAC consensus advice. But, by virtue of ICANN's corporate domicile (California) and ICANN's election as an IRC §501(c)(3) non-profit, California and U.S. law will have precedence in most ICANN legal disputes (see, e.g., Domain Mondo's ICANN Litigation Status Update).

#IANASteward Strickling, @NTIAgov: #ICANN has never had anti-trust immunity & won’t have it going forward.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

Potential liability under U.S. antitrust law may be one of the most important, and powerful, accountability measures on post-transition ICANN.

#IANASteward @icann_president to @ChrisCoons: yes, the transition is aimed at preventing competing systems to current #ICANN & root system.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) September 14, 2016

Preventing a "competing" internet root may be the most compelling reason to not delay the IANA transition despite misgivings about ICANN or the IANA transition plan.


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What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2016 (infographic)

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist

Courtesy of VisualCapitalist.com: Platforms such as the ones listed above are comparable in magnitude to other mega-sized companies, but without the intense capital expenditures, debt, or hard costs. That’s why Alphabet, Google’s parent company, can spend over a billion dollars each year on “moonshots.”

The full stats on what happens every internet minute:

• 701,389 logins on Facebook
• 69,444 hours watched on Netflix
• 150 million emails sent
• 1,389 Uber rides
• 527,760 photos shared on Snapchat
• 51,000 app downloads on Apple’s App Store
• $203,596 in sales on Amazon.com
• 120+ new Linkedin accounts
• 347,222 tweets on Twitter
• 28,194 new posts to Instagram
• 38,052 hours of music listened to on Spotify
• 1.04 million vine loops
• 2.4 million search queries on Google
• 972,222 Tinder swipes
• 2.78 million video views on Youtube
• 20.8 million messages on WhatsApp

This volume of data, or information, is part of the reason that these same companies are prioritizing the ability to process and interpret big data more than ever before.


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Google Tax Deal, The Global Showdown Coming Over Taxes (video)

Above: Google tax deal heralds global showdown | FT Comment - Published Jan 28, 2016

• Google tax: David Cameron defends £130m UK tax deal - BBC News Google agreed to pay £130m of tax dating back to 2005 to HMRC, which said it was the "full tax due in law". But European MPs have described it as a "very bad deal" and Labour said it amounted to a 3% tax rate.
• European Commission to examine Google’s UK tax deal - FT.com
• EU mulls probe of U.K. Google tax deal as Italy investigates - San Jose Mercury News: "Ricardo Cardoso, spokesman for EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager, said that "we will look into it and then decide where to move from there.""

Google it and see the maelstrom brewing, or check out Twitter:

Google has cleverly planted dozens of their people in White House, Downing St, other governments.
Most brilliant new lobbying effort yet.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 27, 2016

Tech tax breaks facilitated by politicians easily awed by Valley ambassadors like Google chairman Schmidt eg, posh boys in Downing St.@

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 27, 2016

Global tech companies making enormous profits most places, funnelling $$ thru tax havens. Unless stopped will ruin local businesses who pay.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 27, 2016

Google et al broke no tax laws. Now paying token amounts for p r purposes. Won't work. Need strong new laws to pay like the rest of us.

— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) January 27, 2016

Tweets about "Google tax deal"

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Return to Normality? FED Set To Raise Rates for First Time Since 2006

UPDATE: DomainMondo.com: Breaking: FED FOMC Rate Hike of 0.25, Press Conference 2:30 pm EST




A world of central bank divergence | Analysis Review (video above) - The European Central Bank has eased monetary policy while the US Federal Reserve is widely expected to tighten interest rates. The FT’s Martin Wolf and JPMorgan Asset Management’s Stephanie Flanders discuss the implications with Frederick Studemann. Published Dec 10, 2015, by the Financial Times.

On Wednesday, the second day of its FOMC Meeting (15-16 Dec 2015), we will find out (Press Conference 2pm EST) if the U.S. Federal Reserve will finally raise interest rates (for the first time since 2006).

Below: tweets about fed interest rate increase and tweets by @federalreserve:

Tweets about fed interest rate increase
Tweets by @federalreserve

See on Domain Mondo:

• Did The Fed Just Signal A Deteriorating Global Economy Into 2016 (videos) 17 Sept 2015
• Wall Street and the World Are Watching: Will the Fed Make Its Move Now? 16 Sept 2015

See also: Why December Is Looking Likelier for the Fed to Raise Interest Rates - The New York Times and

Fed's Historic Liftoff and Everything After: Decision Day Guide - Bloomberg Business: "... what to look for when the Federal Open Market Committee releases its policy statement at 2 p.m. Wednesday following a two-day meeting in Washington. Economists and traders expect the first interest rate increase since 2006, marking the beginning of the end for the unprecedented era of easy monetary policy. The move would come at a time when a commodity slump is causing the market for high-yield bonds to gyrate, sending tremors through financial conditions indexes and spreading unease across trading desks..."

Note:  Press release and press conference | Wednesday afternoon, December 16, 2015.

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Internet Governance Forum, #IGF2015, Nov 9-13, Daily Highlights

Internet Governance Forum 2015  #IGF2015

Mon-Fri 9-13 Nov 2015 (Day 0 - Day 4) at João Pessoa, Brazil

Date / Time (24hr) in João Pessoa:

The Internet Governance Forum page on IGF 2015 is here
IGF2015 Schedule: http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/igf-2015-schedule
Daily Highlights: see further below
IGF 2015 Official (Brazil) Website: http://www.igf2015.br/
IGF 2015 List of Accepted Workshops
IGF 2015 Remote Participation and Webcasts

@intgovforum

Twitter handle #IGF2015

#IGF2015 Tweets
Tweets by @sgdickinson

Monday, November 9th Highlights:
11:00 - 12:00 Freedom House - Freedom on the Net 2015 Report

13:00 - 14:00 ISOC Annual Event 

Tuesday, November 10th Highlights:
09:00 - 12:30 WSIS+10 Consultations
11:00 - 12:00 Open Forum - ITU

11:00 - 12:00 Open Forum - DINL, Digital Infrastructure Association

12:00 - 13:00 Global Comission on Internet Governance

Wednesday, November 11th Highlights:

09:00 - 10:00 Open Forum - ICANN
11:00 - 12:00 WS 167 Unlocking internet economy through copyright reform
11:00 - 12:00 Open Forum - Internet Society (ISOC)
14:00 - 15:30 WS 52 The Global “Public Interest” in Critical Internet Resources
Thursday, November 12th Highlights:

09:00 - 10:30 WS 139 Enabling the Next Billion Users through Universal Acceptance
11:00 - 12:00 WS 226 Internet governance and Open Government Data initiatives

14:00 - 15:30 WS 50 WGIG +10

16:00 - 17:30 WS 200 DoubleIrish,DutchSandwich,aCaipirinha:InternetTaxationTale

Friday, November 13th Highlights:

09:00 - 10:30 WS 72 IANA functions transition:A New Era in Internet Governance?
09:00 - 10:30 WS 135 National and Transnational Internet Governance: Jurisdiction
11:00 - 12:30 WS 54 The Destabilization of Internet Governance
16:30 - 17:00 Open Microphone & Taking Stock

For the IGF 2015 meeting, the IGF's MAG decided to retain the title “Evolution of Internet Governance: Empowering Sustainable Development” as the overarching theme. This theme will be supported by eight sub-themes that will frame the discussions at João Pessoa, namely:

• cybersecurity and trust;
• the Internet economy;
• inclusiveness and diversity;
• openness;
• enhancing multistakeholder cooperation;
• the Internet and human rights;
• critical Internet resources; and
• emerging issues.

Remote participation will be available according to the Internet Governance Forum: "The links to access each meeting room will be provided one day before the IGF. All main sessions, workshops, Dynamic Coalitions, Open Fora, Side Sessions and Pre-events will have webcast, captionning and remote participation (Some workshop organizers may ask for some sessions not to have remote participation). Remote participants/hubs should take a look at the IGF schedule on the home page to see the room and the time of the sessions they would like to follow."

See also on Domain Mondo: Internet Society, US Government, ICANN, at IGF 2015, Nov 9-13

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Now Trending on Twitter: #BlackMonday

S&P 500 Index closed down again Monday, Aug 24th
(source: google.com)

The Carnage Continued Monday: the S&P 500 Closed Below 1900, losing ground again (see above), as did most stocks (check prices using links below):

• S&P 500 Index
• NASDAQ: AMZN Amazon
• NASDAQ: AAPL Apple
• NYSE: BABA Alibaba
• NASDAQ: FB Facebook
• NASDAQ: GOOGL Google Class A
• NASDAQ: GOOG Google Class C
• NASDAQ: MSFT Microsoft
• NYSE: TWTR Twitter
• NASDAQ: YHOO Yahoo!

World's Richest Lose $182B in Market Rout (Friday, Aug. 24) -- The stock market rout has the world's billionaires losing big bucks. The richest 400 people lost a combined $182B last week. Bloomberg's Yvonne Man reports on "First Up."

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Video Replay of Congressional Hearings on ICANN, IANA May 13th, Tweets

Below is a selection of Tweets during the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Hearing: Stakeholder Perspectives on ICANN: The .Sucks Domain and Essential Steps to Guarantee Trust and Accountability in the Internet’s Operation (video replay here) and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing: Stakeholder Perspectives on the IANA Transition (video replay here):

Chairman Issa asks do we need more time to complete #IANAstewardship transition? Witnesses Answer "Yes" http://t.co/JvVOLTZUNL #ICANN

— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) May 13, 2015

Witness Phil Corwin questions wisdom of #ICANN launching over 1300 #newgtlds #domains #IANAsteward http://t.co/JvVOLTZUNL

— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) May 13, 2015

Problems with ICANN's newgTLD program dominate US Hearing on IANA transition http://t.co/JvVOLTZUNL #ICANN #IANAsteward #Domains

— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) May 13, 2015

Dot COM is still King! still the most valuable TLD in DNS say Chairman Issa and witness Corwin http://t.co/JvVOLTZUNL #ICANN #domains

— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, B Woodcock: no good can come from rushing #IANAsteward transition for names community b4 it’s ready. 2/2

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, @SteveDelBianco: the #IANAsteward transition proposal will not be ready by September 2015.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

Rep. Issa, citing to .SUCKS letter: I take great pride, under "speech and debate," in calling #dotSUCKS "legalized extortion." #ICANN

— Greg Shatan (@GSS1958) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, B Goodlatte: reads out statement submitted by a stakeholder suggesting that ICANN & NTIA are too close.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, @SteveDelBianco: the #IANAsteward transition proposal will not be ready by September 2015.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, @Jvzuck: ICANN needs to find better ways to involve small businesses. Current processes are overwhelming.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing: a number of witnesses say that #IANAsteward transition needs more time to get it right.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, @VLawDC: notes CWG-IANA's #IANAsteward transition prop out 4 comment is not yet complete in all sections.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, @VLawDC: the jury’s out, but doesn’t see a market for 1400 #newgTLDs.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

@SteveDelBianco and @VLawDC: important for #ICANN to stay in US, under US law since accountability designed to work under US law.

— Greg Shatan (@GSS1958) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN, @Jvzuck: ICANN’s come a long way in enforcing registrar contract compliance, but still has a long way to go.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, P Misener, @amazon: USA really should have stood up for Amazon’s dot-amazon application & not abstained.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN, @DarrellIssa: seems to be 1 price when there’s domain name competition & another when there’s extortion #dotsucks

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, @RepDougCollins: there’s a laundry list of ICANN failures. Concerned about its lack of accountability.

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

.@HouseJudiciary #ICANN hearing, @MEWStark: A large biz wanting to register 300 names in 400 TLDs at $100/name would cost it ~12 million USD

— Samantha Dickinson (@sgdickinson) May 13, 2015

If #ICANN and @NTIAgov fail to extend IANA contract soon, expect Congress to delay #IANAsteward transition http://t.co/w0vBcRh8ON

— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) May 13, 2015

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Drinking the Kool-Aid With Frank Schilling

Time to pause and drink some Frank Schilling Kool-Aid on a hot summer day--I love Twitter and almost everybody loves Frank (even if you disagree with him)--so here's a selection of his Tweets (and 1 Retweet-- being the first one below) with a little Domain Mondo commentary in-between:

Best Deal for .XYZ Registrations looks to be at Uniregistry http://t.co/dA8gpmSTUV http://t.co/MJiiTC8XXt
— The Domains (@thedomains) June 3, 2014

LOL! Little did they know!

.XYZ available today at http://t.co/GnbSDUs9PR just $8.88!
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) June 2, 2014

Some names are clearly better than others, but the best names are usually the ones you own.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) May 28, 2014

Meaning the ones Frank owns!

Domain Names are the real estate of the Web. Absolutely no question. Control all the domain names and you control the Internet.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) May 26, 2014

CONTROL them ALL Dr. No--err--Mr. Frank!

.com names will always be with us. Heroes never die. But new protagonists are emerging. Bet on all of them.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) May 8, 2014

"Bet on all of them"--oh yeah, real good advice for investors or gamblers!

Will new domain-names impact existing .com prices? Bringing more diamonds out of the ground does not make the price of diamonds go down.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) May 5, 2014

Uh, Frank, you better check with De Beers on that one.

I bought some of my best domain names after having a glass of wine in front of the computer. I bought some of my worst after the third glass
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) March 3, 2014

Imagine that!

Marketing for .SEXY and .TATTOO begin March 8th. At $19.99, anything good .SEXY will be gone in a year.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) February 27, 2014

Notice Frank doesn't predict the same for .TATTOO - #newgTLD remorse?

If you knew how little people thought about you - you wouldn't worry what people think of you.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) February 21, 2014

For follow-up see this

2015: .info shrinks, com flatlines, some NewG accidentally GA's a name they need + barters premium to get it back. Biz gets beat by a New G.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) February 15, 2014

"2015 ... com flatlines" = Frank heavy into the Kool-Aid

.com will always be the yardstick other names are measured by, but in future .com will not always rank at the top of that measure.
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) February 12, 2014

OK, what will be at the top of that measure? .TATTOO? LOL!

domain advice: It's not a good generic GTLD unless it works for toiletpaper. toiletpaper.bike = fail toiletpaper.shop = pass
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) February 10, 2014

A psychiatrist could have a field day psychoanalyzing the above--I'm not touching it with a ten-foot pole!

.guru has passed .coop in registration volume in 2 days. and guru is not 'that' strong a string
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) February 6, 2014

Yes, it's called fools and their money

Esther Dyson completely out of her depth. Compare this future: http://t.co/krjtqSp5rk to her views on the matter: http://t.co/jRGYH1kaL8
— Frank Schilling (@Frank_Schilling) February 21, 2014

I'm not getting between Frank and Esther Dyson!

Have a good weekend--you too, Frank!

-- John Poole, Domain Mondo

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Internet Governance Forum Replay, Tweets

On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Steve Crocker, Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors, and  Larry Strickling of the US Department of Commerce NTIA, appeared with others at an Internet Governance Forum at the AEI -- Live Video Replay here -- and my "live tweets" during the event are embedded below.

In denial -- apparently Steve DelBianco of NetChoice and others think its their job to be #ICANN cheerleaders #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

Inside the Beltway they want to beat up on France for daring to question #ICANN and US government #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

Apparently if you dare question unaccountable #ICANN like #France has, expect US Gov and inside the Beltway hostility #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

Multistakeholderism means #ICANN insiders, US government, and special interests control internet DNS #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

Larry Strickling dares not mention #Snowden as the main reason for the NTIA #IANA transition announcement #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

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Strickling asserts IANA isn't USG property. If court finds it is, Congress must auith transfer to ICANN. Let's see legal analysis! #igfAEI
— Berin Szoka (@BerinSzoka) July 22, 2014

Naive Larry Strickling apparently does not understand that #ICANN bylaws can be changed at any time #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

#ICANN Board of Directors initiated process to incorporate under Swiss law - ICANN Board Resolution 2014.02.17.01 #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

How can #ICANN be held accountable? Read the French Senate proposal http://t.co/Hoie6laliS #igfAEI
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

#igfAEI want to know what #ICANN structure looks? @NetChoice Steve DelBianco breaks it down pic.twitter.com/DuTTcxITMW
— Katie McAuliffe (@DigitalLiberty) July 22, 2014

Notice that unlike Registrars, Domain Name Registrants have no representation within #ICANN @DigitalLiberty @NetChoice #accountability
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) July 22, 2014

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