The point is about my blog. The point was according to domaining.com any post that contains the word “ICANN” written by anyone, get many less clicks and views that any other posts.

I don’t do any of the forums.

Michael,
I don’t read your blog regularly (maybe once every couple weeks and read all the posts at once) unless linked to something important. I do think one of the issues is where we find ourselves getting our news and what we find remarkable. I read a couple forums like a hawk each and every day. I rely on a few key people to provide updates about different topics, when it comes to what ICANN is doing that can affect me I will say George Kirikos probably keeps me the most up to date with what he is writing and posting publicly in the forums about ICANN. Perhaps you could do the same (maybe you do — are you at DomainState?) It would bring more awareness to the issues and maybe a broader set of people.

Kevin Ohashi

Thanks for pointing that out

She expresses that community participation around the issue of gTLD’s was significant, and she validated the importance of the public comment time period which allowed stakeholders to share important concerns on the new gTLD’s.

The ICANN blog seems to be another valuable opportunity for domainers to address big issues …

http://blog.icann.org/2009/01/applicant-guidebook-update/

http://blog.icann.org

I follow it not because of the few domains I own, but because of their power for driving the direction of the Internet over the next 5, 10, 20 years. To understand what the Internet is to become, we must pay attention to those with power over Internet decision-making. And hopefully, we can provide feedback they can use in their decision making.

Michael, please continue to post on ICANN and I will gratiously read each one.

Conor Neu

However, one of the problems with Icann is that I feel I have “zero” influence in what happens.

1. Icann doesn’t need my vote. They appoint their own successors.
2. It has been demostrated many times, they don’t listen to what domainers have to say.
3. I have no control over the process when they take my money.
4. It scares the h*ll out of me what would happen if they are not accountable to anyone.

One sign of good hope, is that, it was mentioned today that the Obama staff are planning for a major cyber attack by terroist.
Hopefully they might be less agreeable about signing off on Icann moving to Switzerland.

I’ll state this again, and I don’t think you can disagree with me …

“And the rest of the ‘domainers’ are just posers hoping to make a rent or car payment with their next flip.”

The reason why most ‘domainers’ don’t care about ICANN is the same reason the house flippers don’t care about the community their next house flip is located – they are in it for the short term, for a fast buck. They’re not interested in community building, laying the foundation for long term growth or ‘giving back’. They just want to make a few bucks and move on.

- Richard