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ICANN Wants $35,000 From Dot-org Wannabes
dipfan writes "ICANN is opening applications for companies or organisations that want to run the non-profit dot-org registry - but has reduced the chances of it being run by a charity by insisting on a $35,000 fee from all bidders. VeriSign gives up the dot-org administration at the end of this year (O happy day!). The Electronic Frontier Foundation has criticised the ICANN decision, saying if ICANN doesn't favor nonprofit groups in its evaluations, then it's unlikely that a nonprofit group will mount a challenge to the established addressing companies that will bid for dot-org."
No. ICANN is asking for an organization to take over the registration process for the .org domain - This probably won't affect owners of .org domains at all. The 35K is for the opportunity to bid on taking over .org registration. It's about as stupid an idea as making name owners pay 35k for their names, but you don't need to be worried.
In the current DNS system, after I request a lookup for a domain name, the server that gave it to me caches it. Every machine that asks that server again before the time out period gets the cached answer. This both keeps loads on the central system down, and allows the owner to specificy how often an update will take at max.
Next, if anyone can register, and the system is distributed so that it can't be controlled, how do you propose that names are removed? Interesting idea, dumb plan.
SIG: HUP
well, according to RFC 1591, .ORG was intended for "organizations that didn't fit anywhere else."
So take the set of all organisations, remove commercial organisations (.COM), educational institutions (.EDU), government organisations (.GOV), military organisations (.MIL) and network providers (.NET) and you pretty much have only non-profits and special interest groups left -- people who are unlikely to have thousand of dollars up their sleeves.