A convo this morning about the .blog gTLD triggered memories of the 2012 new gTLD chaos (I blogged about it back then) and got me digging to see who ‘owns’ the registry:

[aardrian@toot.cafe]

A convo this morning about the .blog gTLD triggered memories of the 2012 new gTLD chaos (I blogged about it back then) and got me digging to see who ‘owns’ the registry:
https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/blog.html

Knock Knock WhoIS There, LLC is owned by Matt Mullenweg:
https://ma.tt/2016/05/blog/

I am not a gTLD expert and don’t know the Mullenrisk here.