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The Internet Society Will Manage .org
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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Especially when I pee.
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sweetandsourjesus
Dear Professor Linux,
How can I keep from soiling myself with indignation every time I hear wee French described as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys"?
Sincerely,
Francois P.
Hand over .com to RIAA?
Mr Goatse will manage .cx
The ISOC plan is an shameless all-out money-grab.
ISOC is largely made up of corporate interests, and will represent corporate interests, not the interests of the real internet community. You can expect corporations to be stealing domains from people alot easier now; AOL will easily be able to steal any domain name which someone paid for which contains "aol" in its name.
The problem with this decision is that it is completely illegitimate. Only 5 of the current ICANN members were elected; the rest were appointed by corporate interests. They have no legitimacy.
The only way ICANN can have legitimacy is if EVERY board member is elected by the internet community in a fair election. Until then, they're just a bunch of information-nazi's.
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
Fuck you KLERCK!
-magenta syringe
Fuck you TOO!
-magenta syringe is back in full force!
.info ppl use postgress simply because after they blew away 5mil US on hardware (their least optimistic forecast was 8 mil domains in the first year or something, what a bunch of morons, welcome to the reality), they didn't have any money left on software and also because one of the guys who was involved with it (Bruce "I'll fuck up everything I touch" Miner) was on a board of whatever crappy company is(was?) behind Postgress.
I bet the Oracle bid didn't have a mandatory weekly 4 hour shutdown of the DB server to do 'vacuum cleaning' - as Afilias people have to do.