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Why it's time to rein in ICANN
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I'm afraid that Verisign has already won a big piece of the debate when we discuss the quality of SiteFinder. Verisign's offense was not the creation of SiteFinder, it was the hijacking of all otherwise unallocated domain names in several zones. Other parties pay fees and subject themselves to trade-name challenges in order to control the mapping of domain names. Verisign is a broker charging a sort of comission, but Verisign does not own the unregistered names, and has no proper authority to assign them in any way, whether the assignment itself appears to be benign or harmful. Verisign did not, as Ms. Arrison suggested, act as a player in a free market. Rather, it bypassed the market and arrogated without payment powers that were supposed to be offered for sale.
Mike O'Donnell
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