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School.com. Kirikos also has Options.com
and StockOptions.com
under development in the financial
arena, and many others in an
assortment of industry verticals.
The
financial domains fall in Kirikos'
wheelhouse - he holds both Bachelor's
and Masters Degrees in Economics
from the University of Toronto.
For years now he has used those
skills to uncover previously
unreported major domain sales and
acquisitions while poring through
public corporate filings. If
you are a regular reader of our weekly
domain sale report you
have seen Kirikos credited for
finding some of the biggest sales
that have ever appeared on our sales
charts (sales that likely would have
remained undiscovered to this day if
George hard not dug them out).
Over
the years Kirikos has proven to be
just as adept at uncovering actions
that threaten domain registrant's
rights, especially when it comes
to governance issues handled by ICANN,
the overseer of the global domain
name system. Since the early days of
domain forums and more recently on
his Twitter
feed, Kirikos has
repeatedly taken ICANN to
task.
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The
matters he has brought to
light left many encouraging
him to start his own blog
so he would have full
control of an important
"soap box" and
have room for more in-depth
commentary that Twitter's
240-character limit allows.
Kirikos has finally heeded
that call by launching his
new blog on one of his
marquee domains - one
perfect for this application
- FreeSpeech.com.
In his first
post on April 5,
2019, he discussed some of
his background and his plans
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Not
surprisingly, ICANN quickly
became the hottest topic on
FreeSpeech.com when they banned
Kirikos from
membership on any of their
working groups shortly after
his blog was launched (for
the past three years, George
has been a member of ICANN's
RPM PDP working group,
which is chartered to review
ICANN’s UDRP and other
policies that affect domain
name registrants). That move
came shortly after Kirikos
had revealed in an earlier
post the same
day that his position was
being threatened due to his
critical commentary. |
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You
can bet these early fireworks
will not be the last at
FreeSpeech.com. Kirikos's record
of straight forward, no
punches pulled commentary on a wide
variety of industry matters warrants
adding a bookmark to his blog if you
want to hear both sides of
the industry's hot topics as well as
broader issues beyond the domain
world related to free speech.
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