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Welcome to my new website, Name Brief.

I didn't start this new website lightly. An old maxim in the legal business, applicable to all service-related businesses I imagine, is that it's easier to grow your business from a current client than it is to gain a new client. The point being that when you want to grow your business, focus on keeping your current clients happy before you invest significant time in trying to gain new ones. I think some of that wisdom is transferrable to publishing as well. I've had a successful (by my standards) and popular (by yours) weblog for seven years where I've written about ICANN and Internet governance. As ICANN has moved into boring old age though, it's become less and less interesting to follow day to day. For ICANN, this is a good thing. For an ICANN blogger like me, it's absolutely awful. So as my interests have changed, I wanted to do something new with my web writing. The easy thing would have been to simply change my focus on my existing weblog, add a lot of new categories and subpages, and bring all of my icann.Blog readers and subscribers in tow. My sense though was that my new focus would disappoint my old readers while the seven years of ICANN arcana would prevent me from gaining new ones. So rather than litter the old weblog with new categories and new pages, I decided to start a new site. No subscribers. No readers. No built in traffic.

If you're reading this, you're reading from ground zero. (For more details, click "Read More" below.)