Archive for May, 2006



I've just seen this spoof of the .xxx registry process, ICANN, US interference and so on.
If you don't know know what all of the above means, or who Paul Twomey, Viviane Reding, Mike Palage etc are, you won't find it funny. If you do, you'll love it.

ICANN Approves Dot-Redneck Domain
The Internet […]

I've just got off the phone from an ICANN press conference with CEO Paul Twomey regarding the decision by ICANN to refuse the .xxx registry application.
And it has done little but confirm my already solid belief that the whole refusal was a poorly choreographed exit from a politically difficult situation.
Politically difficult for who? […]

The ICANN Board has voted to kill the .xxx registry.
It was inevitable I suppose. The political pressure was intense. Most of it coming from the US administration. You only have to look at the campaign in the US against it - ICANN's public comment board has been flooded with people saying it should not […]

I've just learnt that Tom Cruise - you know, the Scientologist nut what does movies - has gone to WIPO to win back TomCruise.com.
The complaint - D2006-0560 - was put in yesterday and is pending a compliance review. Tom Cruise - or more likely his minions - have been very, very slow in noticing […]

I have passed the deadline for my book on Sex.com and I estimate I am still three weeks to a month away from finishing.
How? How could I have miscalculated? And why is it taking so long? Well, there are several reasons:
1. A book contains a hell of a lot of words and it is […]

Liz Two visits Oxford

Liz Two aka Her Majesty the Queen visited Oxford this morning, so I popped along to check it out and get a few snaps.
She had a bit of a tour of the town by all accounts, opening a memorial garden to her late sister at one end, visiting the Oxford University press at the […]

Queen smile

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Queen waving

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Queen leaving

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