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VeriSign and Other Registry Giants Blast ICANN

Posted by timothy on from the struggle-in-the-primordial-soup dept.

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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  1. PUNCH WOMEN IN THE FACE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    for victory!!!!

    FP for CLOT

  2. First Green Eggs and Ham Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I like Green Eggs and Ham!

  3. NOT a first post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  5. Re:Back that up Please... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, I forgot to include it in my submission. Here it is.

  6. *BSD: We Hardly Knew Ye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    After consulting with top IT industry pundits, it has become all too clear: *BSD is dying.

    The project has faced numerous setbacks in recent years, leading to waning developer interest and participation, a user-base migrating to Linux, Windows XP and Mac OS X, and no financial support whatsoever.

    How did it happen? Well, these were the main events. First, *BSD split into 3 incompatible projects - FreeBSD, which focused on 386 and 486 machines; NetBSD, which focused on little-used architectures like Sparc and PPC; and OpenBSD, which focused on minimal functionality and poor performance. This split divided the already-small community and served to set up bitter rivalries. Then, Linux came along and stole all of *BSD's press, funding, and much of it's thunder with its better performance, functionality and ease-of-use. As if that weren't enough, OS X later took nearly all of the desktop *BSD users. And finally, in what has all but spelled out the demise of *BSD, two core developers have quit the project. First, Jordan Hubbard quit *BSD to get an actual paying job at Apple. He made this move citing OS X's superiority, *BSD's imminent demise, and his inability to feed his family with the broken promises of an SMP-enabled kernel. Shortly after that, Michael Smith left, saying simply, "It's true, *BSD is dying."

    Where does all this leave the IT industry at large? Fortunately, the IT world is now healthier than ever. The death of *BSD is simply natural selection at work, as companies leave the shoddily written *BSD behind and move ahead with Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.

    RIP *BSD.

  7. Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now ICANN will be managed by president Bush!
    I can only wonder how nice the internet will be under his administration...

  8. Yer Shit by SubjectLineTroller · · Score: -1, Troll
  9. Re:ICANN'T by charon_on_acheron · · Score: 0, Troll

    First, why would a Swedish porn producer be in Saudi Arabia?

    Second, the US does own the Internet. The US government invented the Internet. Most of the Internet hardware, software, and protocols were developed in the US, by US corporations, universities, and the military.

    If you want to go invent your own Internet, and put your own transmission network in place, and get people to sign up for it, go ahead. No one is stopping you. But be warned, others have tried it, and it didn't work.