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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..."
Which you'll only be able to examine after a long lawsuit, and you won't be able to copy or leak to anyone without a 10 day opportunity for injunction.
Judging from their financial records history at least....
Sir, ICANN has created a rule that favors the Public Good over their corporate sponsors.
Good GOD man! You there! Take the chopper and go swine hunting, You over there, start taking bids on subteranean cold food storage.
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Or maybe we can all just put our wallets out, bend over, and get it done with.
-GiH
Disclaimer: No, I did not read the article.
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.'
"Hello, pot? Yes, hi there, pot. This is your old friend, kettle."
"You're black."
"That is all. Goodbye."
"Mod, mod, mod...and another troll bites the dust."
Oh, boy, VeriSign wants ICANN to give up some of its regulatory power. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Maybe the Swiss could do it; they seem like nice folks. Very private. Kickass knives, too.
The opinions stated herein do not necessarily represent those of anybody at all. Deal with it.
How unfortunate to live in a part of the world that does not have talking kettles.
Beer wants to be free
Thousands of slashdot readers spontaneously combust, unable to pick a side involving an underhanded, unscrupulous entity and... an underhanded, unscrupulous entity.
;-)
I'd just like to state that there were never such debates back when we were all using Gopher.
two muffins are sitting on a tray in the oven... one turns to the other and says "Boy it's getting hot in here!"... the other turns back and says "Oh my god a talking muffin!!"....
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Enter VeriSign, a corporate giant, and ICANN, a nonprofit service that thinks it is a private -- and profitable -- corporation.
VeriSign (shouting offstage): Hey government, ICANN is taking our business!
ICANN: But you are just trying to racketeer and price gouge.
VeriSign: That's not the point. You are racketeering and we want more of the pie. Er, you are outside your jurisdiction on those matters, and are avoiding the issue.
ICANN: But we filter our money through IANA and other profitable corporations, I mean, nonprofit public benefit groups.
Two small groups, Nominet and DENIC, enter stage right.
Nominet and DENIC: But what about us? We want to work closely with VeriSign because then we can get all the names that aren't taken with .com, .net, and .org. If VeriSign can price gouge, we should be able to also.
VeriSign: You guys all wanna step into another room and we can discuss this rationally?
all step into dimly-light back room, talking. Also in the room is a demonic figure in red, with horns, a tail, and a pitchfork. All of them laugh, join hands, and become a New Entity.
New Entity: We have reached an agreement. We are now VeriSign-Nominet-ICANN-DENIC, or VeriSNIDE for short. Our new registration fee is $15000 per domain, or highest bid. Because we are Internet based, we will no longer report to any government or public entity. We will do all business from our fleet of personal yachts around the world. Please see our Lawyers and Accountants on the way out.
exit stage left.
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Okay, so it won't be a blockbuster play, but it sure seems like the entire corporate world is following this model.
frob.
//TODO: Think of witty sig statement
It might have started out when being black was a "bad thing". Don't know of the real origins.
It doesn't mean being black is bad. It just means that you are calling upon both parties lambasting the other for being obviously the same thing.
It's origin is Cervantes' Don Quixote.
You can find ethnic slurs in almost anything. Chess, Pool, France Surrendering...
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Choose the one you prefer:
1. a) Attila the Hun, b) Genghis Kahn
2. a) Stalin, b) Hitler
3. a) headcheese, b) haggis
4. a) trial by ordeal, b) trial by secret tribunal
5. a) death by hanging, b) death by firing squad
6. a) ICANN, b) Verisign