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ICANN Plans to Charge Fees to .net Domain Owners

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the easy-budget-increases dept.

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?"

3 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It wouldn't stop... by BobPaul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You mean kind of like the United States government? Yeah, those folks did a great job at representing the interests of its constituents.

    I wouldn't know. Nobody I voted for won.

  2. Re:From the FA... by BobPaul · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So how exactly does this cause anyone real grief?

    Well, they JUST added in 25-cents per year for most domains, and now they'll be adding in 75-cents for .net domains, and when .com, .biz, etc come up for bidding again, they'll probably add 75-cents in for each of those as well. Then perhaps we'll get another 50-cent blanket upcharge, making it $1.50 for .net, etc and 75-cents for everything else.

    Notice the trend?

    ICANN /ALREADY/ bids off domains the way the FCC bids off airwaves. So now they're setting a precident that if they don't make enough money off the bid, they'll just impose a fee that users can pay directly leveling out the amount to whatever they decide it should be, not what the market decides...

  3. Re: I wouldn't know. Nobody I voted for won. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Gotta love frigging Slashdot... Anti-Bush posts are automatically modded Insightful, Anti-Kerry posts are flamebait...

    Just like the RIAA trying to enforce their legal copyrights is a "Bad Thing", but when the FSF enforces the GPL on a violator, it's a "Good Thing".

    I hate double standards.