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European ccTLDs To ICANN: "We Won't Pay!"

Posted by jamie on from the dumping-tea-into-Boston-Harbor dept.

Thirty European country-code Top Level Domain operators have gotten together and told ICANN they won't pay the full amount of dues that ICANN says they owe. (NYT article, free reg. req.) Not good news for ICANN -- when you owe someone $100, you have a problem, but when you owe someone $1,000,000, they have a problem. The domain-name operators see ICANN as a U.S., not international, organization, and worry that their "tenuous and largely undefined" relationship with ICANN allows the latter to reassign curatorship of their domain-name databases -- as has already once been attempted.

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  1. The nerve! by G-Man · · Score: 5

    Damn you Europeans and the Vespas you rode in on! Don't you know we're the only ones allowed to not pay dues to international organizations!

    I need to switch to decaf...

  2. Re:Appropriate Forum For Creation Of ICANN-like Bo by jbarnett · · Score: 5


    Does anyone have a suggestion as to an appropriate place where the countries of the world should have met to discuss the creation of an ICANN-like body?

    I would recommened Denny's, they are open 24 hours, have great coffee, and you can order breakest, lunch or dinner at any type of the day or night!

    --

    "`Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.'" -THHGTTG
  3. URL without Login by Rabenwolf · · Score: 5
    You can get there without logging in here .

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