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ICANN 1998 to Present - When do They Take .COM ?
Now that .NET is in the ICANN bag and turning out
75 cents per name from the domain vending machines
one might assume that .COM is next. Actually,
ICANN already took .COM in the early days. People
did not notice, they were distracted and did not
have a big picture view of how boundless the
ICANN greed can be.
The Registrars were the tool that ICANN used to
take .COM. Fees flow from the .COM churn via the
ever-expanding Registrar ranks. Using those
funds, ICANN then proceeded to make sure .EDU
went to Mike Robert's insiders and .ORG to
Vinton Cerf's ISOC. .NET has been icing on the
cake for the California insiders that have wanted
to run .NET for years. Side shows were the .US
TLD that went to spooks in Northern Virginia.
ICANN did not really need to get involved there.
The real IANA lock-in, IP Address Allocations,
have been swept under the rug at ICANN and the
RIRs have expanded their empire to ensure their
retirements. As long as the ICANN domain name
vending machines are turning out quarters,
ICANN will likely leave the RIRs alone. The RIRs
have circled their wagons into smaller group
of insiders centered on the NRO. They openly
admit they are in collusion which is of course
against U.S. laws. Who cares ? The Internet is
International, right ?
ICANN is now poised to settle into a corporate
posture where all revenues that flow in are
directed to some internal black-hole. People
will not see any of the details. International
expansion will of course ensure ICANN is able
to continue thumbing it's nose at U.S. laws
while exploiting the U.S. markets. ICANN will
have no trouble attracting more and more people
who fit that profile.
Americans can now move forward and ignore both
ICANN and the ITU which are cut from the same
cloth. The deep markets in the U.S. will once
again start to yield new innovations once ICANN
is out of site and out of mind, along with the
ISOC and IETF. It is costly to fund ICANN to
go away, but, considering the big picture, it is
a small price to pay to make way for a truely
fair and free market.
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Keep in Mind Reagan's Strategy to Bury the Soviets in Spending
Putting ICANN into a spending race with the ITU will keep both organizations AWAY from the U.S. free markets where educated consumers will not
be fooled by the ICANN and ITU roadshows.
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http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/counc il/msg00899.html
"Jeff Neuman has submitted a Resignation as Co-Chair of Whois Task Force"
Looks like some people see there is nothing
left at ITU/ICANN and the new free markets in the .USA will be a better opportunity.
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ICANN is a Division of Verisign Time to Clone .NET
Plan B for some of the .NET bidders was to work
on the Clone of .NET.
Verisign and ICANN had no intention of changing
the .NET arrangement because .NET and .COM use
the same IP addresses. If ICANN was serious about
that, they would have required that Verisign
separate .COM and .NET years ago.
Now you will see a distinct separation of .NET
and .COM. The .NET owners should be very pleased
with the end result. Consumers will see a seemless
transition, or actually not see it.
Verisign and ICANN have set a new floor for annual
domain name fees at 75 cents per name. The .COM
Registrars should now be asking for that same
thing to increase their margins for no additional
work.
Many people always claimed that annual domain
name fees should be under $1. That is now the
case. Consumers have watched the fees go from
$50 to $35 to $6 and now $1. New competition has
not been allowed in (yet), but ICANN and Verisign
will be pointing to their accomplishments in
terms of price-fixing.
Some of the new.NET Registrars will of course
plan to charge only $1 per .NET name per year.
They can do that because of the other .NET
services they will now be able to offer, that
other Registrars can not offer. Many Registrars
are .NET clueless and are happy with their
drag-and-drool .COM .web market.
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Perhaps some American (which is to say someone within the USA, I'm Canadian eh?) could explain why the good ol' stars and bars hates the UN (incl. ITU) so much. You invented and created it. Now it represents the world and you can't control it, so it must be dysfunctional, right. Hmmmm, sorta like ICANN. C'mon Yankees, you couldn't do any worse. -g
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ALAC Was an Esther Dyson Invention - End of Story
It is amazing how she was able to brain-wash people.
Some have been de-programmed.
Some can not be saved.
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Tensions are rising between Japan and China.
In an ironic twist, Japan has been sucked into
the communist-socialist ISOC/ICANN IPv6 disaster.
China, now sporting their new mantra of free
markets, is gloating over their IPv9 being widely
deployed in American homes, as they sleep. The
U.S. Government and DOD finds themselves in the ISOC communist camp, while Americans are cheering
China on.
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