VeriSign and Other Registry Giants Blast ICANN

rhwalker22 writes: "VeriSign, ENIC, and Nominet UK today released a letter to the U.S. Commerce Dept. urging Uncle Sam to 'scale back the powers of the body that manages the Internet's global addressing system,' according to this report on washingtonpost.com. ICANN, of course, has its own take on the Registries' letter..."

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Re:Verisign ??

[horza]

And yet this is the same Nominet who is riding rough shod over user's objections [nominet-no.co.uk] to showing full addresses and phone numbers on whois on all of .uk (including .me.uk - supposed to be for individuals)

It was put to a vote, and the yes vote won. Those on the losing side will always feel 'ridden over' but that will happen in any democracy. I personally am all for the publication. People change email addresses like they change shoes, and I find the contact information useful for when I want to contact the owner of the domain (usually to see if they still want it, but I also feel more secure knowing it's there if I ever need to call and complain about any abuse).

the same nominet who has a shed load of money in the bank

If they can charge around $3/year for a domain and end up with a shed load of money in the bank, why am I going to complain? It means they have the funds to upgrade their infrastructure should they need to, and being a non-profit I know it's not going to end up in some directors pocket.

who don't publish accounts

What, you mean these accounts?

the same nominet who can take 4 months to respond to emails, and who, in my case took 2.5 years to transfer a domain I purchased into my name

I think you are probably an exception to the rule. I, and everyone else I know, have had excellent. I've no idea why you waited 2.5 years, after a couple of weeks I'd have been constantly badgering any company or organisation that had failed to do as promised, and after a month or two I'd have driven down there and made _sure_ it was done. It can't have been important if you never bothered chasing it up.

Nominet is not run for the common good, nor are they transparent

I respectfully disagree.

Phillip.