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ICANN Trying To Speed Up
coder_cc writes "ICANN posted a Preliminary Report on their Melbourne ICANN Board Meeting and it looks like the public's dissatisfaction with the gTLD process is finally getting to them. Under a lot of board- and committee-speak (yukk) they urge their President to complete negotiations for the new gTLDs and set themself a time-limit of only 7 days to comment on the eventual negotiation results. Without negative feedback in seven days, the ICANN President is authorized to go ahead and sign the agreements.
But don't hold your breath, the Board still CAN make comments and hold this up for a long time."
Like USENET, DNS needs a .ALT top level domain where domain names are strictly first come first serve and where domain name lawsuits are barred.
Without a garbage dump where anything goes, the trash will just clutter up all the other TLDs.
How to enforce this. Make it a condition of getting or renewing or even just keeping an existing domain name, that you agree not to sue and indemnify and hold harmless all *.ALT domain names.
believe it or not, porn sites make money from paying customers. neither of which do much of thier buisness at libraries or schools
public's dissatisfaction with the gTLD process is finally getting to them
ICANN isn't responsive to the public. They're responsive to companies paying to register domains. More likely they're moving to stem the rising tide of alternate naming organizations.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
Whereas:
Mike Roberts today completes his service as ICANN's first President and Chief Executive Office...
As a direct result of his efforts ICANN as now universally acclaimed as "not as bad as it could be";
I mean, hey, at least they don't take themselves too seriously up there in their cathedral!
Karma: Bored. (Thinking about resurrecting the "Anyone else is an imposter" joke.)
Imagine a world without ICANN. A world Whereas, an Ad Hoc Group on Numbering and Addressing was not convened for discussion of these issues.. A world without TLD's.. Just the word.. no 'dot' anything..
Well heck, I think we should just stick to IP numbers, and limit the influx of spam clicking mouthbreathers, but then again, I may be an elitist pig..
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Taking this out of context, I don't recall myself or anyone I know of posting any kind of public opinion of any kind in relevance to TLD's. Maybe what ICANN should have done is sent an email to existing domain owners in order to get some form of feedback in regards to new TLD's
This does not mean that the new TLD's will be out and about within 7 days, what it means is when all board member have made any comments, the board is then allowed an additional 7 days to add comments. Whats not known is if any board members point out a problem or deficiency, if the board goes back through the entire procedure again.
I used to work at Register.com and remember whenever ICANN made some noise the CEO and others would quickly brainstorm with lawyers in order to understand some of the enigmatic policies ICANN would sometimes introduce. Knowing more or less what ICANN is and what ICANN does, I feel bad for the non-profit organization, as they have to deal with what I call "brats on the Internet".
This ruling though will not speed up the introduction of the new TLD's though =\
AntiOffline.com vs. Register.com
360 degrees of Karma
Wouldn't it be cool if gTLDs could be registered just like domain names? It'd work like this. Say I wanted a domain name, say oooga.com. Then I'd just register it, and pay the 12 bucks. But say I wanted oooga.freellamarides. I'd register .freellamarides for maybe 35 bucks, and also oooga.freellamarides for 12. Then, when ever anybody else registered anything at .freellamarides, I'd get maybe a 1 cent royalty for coming up with it, which could go towards the InterNic fees.
-- Nerds on toast in the new millenium
There will only be about 25 companies left with domain names anyway. We won't even need new names.
Wired ran a story about this a couple of months back, and I checked it out. It's as easy as replacing your ISP's DNS addresses with ones they provide (well, for me anyway).
http://www.youcann.org
It's not much use unless people start using it, but it opens your eyes as to how the system works. ICANN only has authority if people let them have it. Who said the internet needs to be forced into a top-down design model, anyway?