ICANN Wants $35,000 From Dot-org Wannabes

Posted by michael on Wednesday April 24, 2002 @04:46AM from the pay-to-play dept.

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."

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Wouldn't it be nice... by 1WingedAngel · 2002-04-24 04:53 · Score: 3, Interesting

If the various .orgs that are technology based (slashdot.org, linux.org) got together and did ran this themselves?

Tim
Is DNS showing its age? by Aniquel · 2002-04-24 06:00 · Score: 3, Interesting

I'm just curious here, what with all the recent ICANN controversy, is there a design limitation inherent in DNS that's preventing a better system?

It seems to me as though requiring root servers is just asking for a single body to come along and hijack the whole registration process - which is exactly what's happening.

Although DNS is a distributed model, it certainly isn't p2p - So would a p2p dns system remove the need for ICANN?