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.net Domain Up For Grabs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-no-.rob-for-me dept.

belmolis writes " The New York Times is reporting that the bidding is on for the .net domain currently administered by VeriSign. VeriSign's current contract expires June 30th; applications are due today. Three companies are known to be interested: NeuStar, which currently manages .biz, Afilias, which manages .info, and Denic eG, a non-profit that manages the German .de domain. ICANN is bending over backward to avoid any suggestion of bias due to its conflict with VeriSign over VeriSign's Site Finder "service" and has appointed an independent team to evaluate the applications. VeriSign has been lobbying hard to keep the domain and is reported to have received letters of support from Microsoft and IBM."

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  1. Just not verisign by digitalgimpus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When the get to much power they take advantage (sitefinder). IMHO when a company has poor ethics, they like to show it.

    They showed us their ethics... we can do better. Lets look at other companies.

    1. Re:Just not verisign by leonmergen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      They showed us their ethics... we can do better. Lets look at other companies.

      The .net registration right is up for bid... not vote. It's not like we have a choice over who's going to get the rights, it's who pays most.

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    2. Re:Just not verisign by gowen · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, given the number of scammers that use .biz and .info websites to phish for bank account details (and how far from their designed roles .biz and .info have drifted), I don't think the alternatives are terribly ethically sound either,

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  2. Letters of Support by SomeoneGotMyNick · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Big Deal.... Take those letters and shove them. Using those letters, regardless of where they came from, would cause and/or swing the bias. If an independent group is making the decision, let them do independent research to decide.

    People need to get off this "because Microsoft, IBM, AOL, etc. said it, so now I'll believe it" mentality and start thinking for themselves. For example, I like Linux. Not because Linus said so, but because I did my own research and found it to be what I feel I need.

  3. Wait... I missed it... by Kierthos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When exactly did ICANN care about appearing impartial?

    Why can't they just tell VeriSign something along the lines of "You fucked up. You thought you were all bad and shit. We're taking it away from you." and just let the other three companies mentioned bid for it and shut VeriSign out of the .net domain?

    Kierthos

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    Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
  4. Speaking of ethics... by nharmon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    [i]Help me, get a free [freeminimacs.com] mini mac.[/i]

    Call me crazy, but you don't see a problem with talking about ethics, and advertising some ipod/minimac pyramid scheme at the same time?

    I say that for now on, we pledge to never mod up people with this bullcrap in their sigs.

  5. Sorry... by sepluv · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why exactly can't ICANN take into account the fact that Verisign broke their last contract (in a way that screwed around with the whole Internet and made Verisign lots of $$$) when deciding whether to give them the next contract? What do they decide the contract on then?

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