Wampum

A college wrote asking for registry back end operator contacts. He's going to source an RFI from the Arab League for applications for IDN (Arabic Script) and ASCII (Latin Script) strings.

One of the cool things about what I do is knowing that we are competitive, we are the best at what we do. Of course, competition ensures that we work, and I provided every contact I knew of.

Update: Later I asked for competitors I didn't know in ICANN's Vertical Integration Working Group. One new registry backend services operator identified, my former co-worker at NeuStar circa 2001. Good on him!