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The Internet Society Will Manage .org

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the formerly-known-as dept.

ahpeterson writes "The ICANN board just decided to hand control of the .org domain over to the Internet Society. You can read more about their bid here. Whee, no more VeriSign in .org!"

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  1. Before you let the party begin by ebuck · · Score: 5, Insightful


    No more Verisign is something that many will be very, very happy about, but any "big" change in "the way things are done" often hurts before it gets better.

    Let's hope that the transition is as painless as possible.

  2. so it's ISOC by frost22 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    you applaud that ?

    The ISOC proposal is a shameless money-grab. They are contracting out the actual work to .info operator AFFILIAS (a privately held for profit company owned by - among others - Verisign) while grabbing a part of the revenues for whatever club activities they deem worthy.

    This is the very same ISOC that got its bid approved by an evaluation comitee which judged principial Bind developer and internet pioneer Paul Vixie and his coworkers to be technically incompetent to run a registry - ISOC should be ashamed (and refuse) to accept that approval at all !

    The whole thing is a farce....

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    ...and here I stand, with all my lore, poor fool, no wiser than before.