.xxx approval a positive sign

Keep in mind that ICANN headed down the Artificial Scarcity road, day-one, when they created Registrars. Prior to ICANN there were more Registrars than people could count. ISPs and web developers just connected to the Registry, as they still do with some TLDs. The legal community saw their first chance to insert themselves into the cash flow and to place themselves into a regulatory position by **creating** Registrars. Verisign at the time was in the process of creating premium partners and allowed ICANN to become their regulator for retail agents. Esther Dyson, Mike Roberts and people from the CORE IAHC fiasco helped to promote the totally fabricated notion of a Registrar. Don Heath from the ISOC and insiders like Dave Crocker and Kent Crispin helped to bring the Registrar concept into being. Joe Sims of course stepped in with the heavy-handed DOJ accredidation schemes. One-time attorneys, like Michael Palage, made a fortune being the accedidation agent. He got to sift thru all of the Registrars private information demanded (without subpoena) in the process. Talk to Registrars, and find out how much they liked Palage's rectal exams. Their greed convinced them it was worth bending over and allowing pictures to be taken. What has happened to that information, no one knows. To make the Registrar role lucrative, ICANN then of course made TLDs artificially scarce. This was all artificial and counter to the free-market forces already in place. At the time, Esther Dyson was also running around Washington D.C. selling the U.S. Congress on her eTrustee nonsense. Put one of her badges on your web-site (for a fee) and claim you are honest. Riiiight!!! Now you see Registrars churning the .COM and .NET name spaces. There is no need for Registrars. Volume Registrars (example: 1and1.com) are now priced BELOW the $6 per year fee. Anyone can buy for LESS than an ICANN "accredited" shark. The lawyers like Sims of course look at the whole thing and laugh all the way to the bank. It is totally artificial. Verisign could easily deal with anyone doing end-to-end registrations into the Registry, from any IP address, given the right software. That of course was another major piece in the artificial market puzzle. Insiders conspired to change the software and to make is so complex and so expensive that only well-healed companies could afford to play. Verisign again laughed all the way to the bank charging huge fees for the software that they did not even have to develop. The solution is of course to do away with the Registrars. That is of course happening via free market forces. Pay no attention to the growing list of Registrars at ICANN. Many of those are the same people just buying more bandwidth into the Registry to churn names faster. The artificial scarcity has now caused artificial inflation of the Registrar population. ICANN has a captive customer base in the Registrars, which they demand growing fees from year after year. It is all built on artificial scarcity and manipulations of markets, mostly by an ethically bankrupt legal community. Because Verisign is one of the main supporters of this house of cards, another solution is to get rid of Verisign. That can now be more easily done with low-cost devices connected to the always-on Internet. Those low-cost devices can collectively form *The Registry*. When a user connects, they select a TLD and a name and the devices coordinate (without human manipulation) on making sure the name is unique and it enters the name-space. To make sure that the name is safe, secure, stable, etc. the devices can literally burn the name into chips that do not change when power is removed. There is NO NEED for some ICANN [Job] Security and Stabilty Task Force. That is all theater. Unfortunately, there is another reality which is that consumers have been badly mislead by the ICANN insiders and the U.S. Government players around at the time to create the ICANN fiasco. Consumers see only .COM. They may also now see .XXX because that will get their attention or the attention of their schools, churches and other real-world community groups. There is a new compelling reason to get rid of Verisign and the artificial ICANN structures.

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