About this blog…

I am employed by Netnod as head of research and development and am among other things chair of the Security and Stability Advisory Committee at ICANN and very active in the UN multistakeholder process IGF (Internet Governance Forum). You can find CV and photos of me at this page.

As I wear so many hats, I find it being necessary to somewhere express my personal view on things. This is the location where that happens. Postings on this blog, or at Facebook, Twitter etc, falls under this policy.

The views expressed on this post are mine and do not necessarily reflect the views of Netnod or any other of the organisations I have connections to.

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Quality of whois data

FTC Letter

Federal Trade Commission have sent a letter to ICANN. Described at .NXT.

Whats specifically comes up, I think, is the specific issue regarding quality of data in the various whois services out there. This is not only a domain name issue, but also IP address issue of course. The problems with [...]

December 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: DNS, English, Internet, Language, Politics, Services | One comment

New TLDs, acceptable or not to everyone?

Last week was an ICANN meeting in Brussels. I did not go this time either. But people still send questions to me on various subjects. One of the more popular ones the last couple of days is whether the string that is to be allocated as a potential new TLD must be acceptable to [...]

June 28th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: DNS, English, Internet, Politics | Leave a comment