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I think the report misses the main point of the SiteFinder exercise. The main point has nothing to do with network architecture nor with wild cards, although the first is at least a secondary relevant point.
Main point: The power to route a domain name to a chosen address is a valuable power. Verisign's whole DNS business is lucrative because it has been made co-steward in the assignment of that power. Any other corporation or individual must pay and sometimes defend legally in order to determine the resolution of a particular domain name. Verisign has a perfect right to route domain names to SiteFinder as long as it pays the same price. I'm even willing to consider a bulk discount, if similar discount is available publicly. Absent such a payment, Verisign was hijacking all of the otherwise unassigned domain names.
Perhaps the fallacy of the ICANN report is clearest when it refers to "nonexistent" domain names. All names exist. Some resolve to addresses, some don't. The power to make one resolve to a particular address is a valuable power, with a commercial value.
Mike O'Donnell
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