Ray King (founder of Porkbun) and I have teamed up to launch Oinkadot, a new registry that has applied for 25 new TLDs. What made partnering with Ray easy is that we’ve always shared the same values: treat customers well, think long term, and do the right thing. We still have the ICANN contention process ahead of us, so we don’t yet know which TLDs we will ultimately launch. But over the coming months, I’d love to hear your ideas. If we’re creating new places on the Internet, we want to build places people actually want to be.

Last month Ray King, CEO of @Porkbun, returned a priceless 2800 year old relic to China. The relic was stolen from a Chinese museum in 1984, and sold overseas. The unsuspecting King family ended up with the relic decades ago. Ray King recently found out the relic was stolen. He immediately and unconditionally returned the relic to China. A noble act by an honorable man. You definitely want your registrar to be run by a person of honor.