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ICANN Plans to Charge Fees to .net Domain Owners
museumpeace writes "ICANN, though it was soundly rebuffed for trying this in the past, is
reported by CNET to be planning a $.75/ year fee to holders of .net domains and will look at fees for other TLD's next year. Is this taxation without representation? And where would this trend stop?"
Can anyone say "Boston Tea Party"?
:)
I'm going to wait at least till the third warning to pay. That way they spend more on stamps than they get from me.
haha. Should be from the ICANN0T-afford-budget-increases dept.
Go not unto/. for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (but have nothing to do with the question)
I'd love to throw .NET into Boston Harbor.
...just because THEYCANN.
Listen you god damned son of a bitch, when I tell you to read the fucking article, you will read the fucking article right, or else you will EAT SHIT NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME GOD DAMMIT!!!
Notice the trend?
Yeah, renewing my domain name is going to be like looking at my phone bill. Tons of strange charges that make absolutely no sense.
Well, as Gates said: "The internet is a pasing fad". He also promised that MSN was going to be bigger than internet, that is, internet will only be a small part into MSN, and not viceversa.
Because a .COM is more likely to be a company, and companies have lawyers.
.NET, on the other hand, is more likely to be too cheap to hire lawyers, because we're more likely to be unrepentant network laying unix hippies.
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At last we can add in step two!
1. Get self on ICANN board.
2. Increase fees gradually so nobody notices. (formerly ???)
3. Profit!
As a result, I will be charging ICANN a monthly 7.50 'Blow Me' fee. Bitches.
Fees and surcharges are the first sign that you should get your gun and start thinning the herd from the top down, because someone has decided you're easy pickin' and an easy money bitch. ICANN does not DO anything, except charge poor fucks like me and you for having a shitty website.
Now mod me offtopic, you ICANN sniffing mod-whores. HAHAHA! Profanity is always uncalled for, and used by ruffians, and ner' do-wells, so eat it.
OK.
Aside from Indoor plumbing, The electric light, The telephone, The jetliner, and The internal combustion engine, what have the Romans ever done for us?
If bad puns were like deli meat, this would be the wurst
Thanks, I turned sigs off when the free iPod thing got going.
Is this taxation without representation? And where would this trend stop?
It will never stop. Observing trends, taxation is increasing for long as past 4000 years. Next phase is Slashdot charging all Cowards $.03/year for keeping them Anonymous...
There you are, staring at me again.
A .NET, on the other hand, is more likely to be too cheap to hire lawyers, because we're more likely to be unrepentant network laying unix hippies.
Boy, if that's the case, those dot ORG guys must be complete neanderthals.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
The Aqueduct.
boston harbor would throw it back.
-mkb
Do you have to have a permit for that?
.Fish do you think you could catch with a .net?
.fish are in the the boston harbor... are they .edible?
How many
And being that the
"If I were bound by all laws everywhere I'm sure I would have committed a capital crime somewhere."