Jonathan Weinberg Bows Out
"With the humblest of apologies," Jonathan Weinberg has withdrawn from the "election" for ICANN GA chair. His statement is here.

Karl Who?
Under the headline "Your Freudian Slip Is Showing" ZDNet notes that,

During a hearing last month before the House Judiciary Committee's Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee, Louis Touton, general counsel for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, was asked to name the group's board of directors. The U.S. government picked ICANN to manage the Internet's Domain Name System. In going through the 19 board members, Touton failed to list Karl Auerbach. Touton may secretly wish Auerbach was not a board member.

Those Guys Are Mean, or Something
In Infoworld, Ed Foster asks Is Network Solutions exploiting the rules or just aggressively marketing?, noting odd marketing ploys.

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