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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?"
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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.
So how exactly does this cause anyone real grief?
.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.
/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...
Well, they JUST added in 25-cents per year for most domains, and now they'll be adding in 75-cents for
Notice the trend?
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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.
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Better than tea.
Everyone in unison dumping the .NET address to make a point. Everything is viewed as a potential source of government revenue. Remember the poll tax? If they could tax people for breathing they would give it a shot. The trick always is to not tax their financial supporters. The rich and corporate america. Bush keeps promising to lower taxes but it's impossible to lower taxes and increase spending. Eventually your debt load exceeds your ability to make minimum payments. The only solution is to look for novel ways of taxing. Our overall tax load will increase because it has to. The new taxes will take the form of fees like this. Government departments will become like the Post Office and will be expected to self finance freeing up the money for more reckless spending. The final result will be the average american being squeezed to the point of breaking by endless "fees" for government services that sound be paid through taxes.
There is one solution. Make the people that vote for a cannidate responsible for their deficits. To make sure people voted any non voters would automatically be considered voting for the winning cannidate. A rediculous idea but imagine the results. Americans would become hypersensitive about deficits and demand fiscal responsibility from their cannidate. People who voted for Bush could find themselves ten to twenty thousand in debt since they would be expected to carry the responsibility for an irresponsible President. At the moment there is no culpability on the cannidate's part. The last election proved it. He ran up record deficits and still won the election. Trust me if the voters who elected him in the first place were held responsible not only would he have not been reelected but he would have been impeached.