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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?"

6 of 388 comments (clear)

  1. Heh heh. by Rod+Beauvex · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't tried to patent/Copyright .net domain yet. First post.

  2. Not that expensive by baryon351 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > s reported by CNET to be planning a $.75/ year fee to holders of .net domains

    75c a year isn't so bad.

  3. Completely Retarded... by ThisNukes4u · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I would just like to say that this is completely retarded. Why do they need the freaking money anyway, they don't do anything usefull. Domains, and their registration and creation should be in the hands of Internet users anyway.

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  4. P2P DNS? by randomErr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Do we need an open peer to peer based dns service?

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  5. Re:It wouldn't stop the romans... by beders · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Indoor plumbing
    The electric light
    The telephone
    The jetliner
    The internal combustion engine

    Yes, well, obviously those, but apart from that, what else have the Romans done for us?

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  6. It is being done to shut down OpenNIC by stry_cat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It took me a while to figure out the real reason they're going after the .net domain. It is not just b/c the contract up for renewal. If you hop on over to OpenNICYou'll see that all of their important domains also have a .net domain in case you're not using one of their servers yet. Now will the folks at OpenNIC have the resources to renew all of their domains with this extra fee? At the very least it will drain their resources off. ICANN is doing this to kill off any competition. ICANN must be stopped!