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VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012

Posted by Zonk on from the good-deal dept.

DIY News wrote to mention a Reuters article reporting that VeriSign will control the .com domain until 2012, according to an agreement with ICANN. From the article: "The agreement settles a long-running dispute between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and the most powerful company under its jurisdiction. The settlement comes at a time when ICANN is under attack from China, Iran and other countries that want more direct control over the domain-name system that guides traffic around the Internet."

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  1. Re:The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 by mctk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to mention it's the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Coincidence? Probably, but I'd still recommend that you never let go.

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  2. Obligitory.. by fak3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    "All your .com domains are belong to US"

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    1. Re:Obligitory.. by fak3r · · Score: 2, Funny
      • please, mods, please stop encouraging these morons. all your base isn't funny. "clever" rewording of the same formula isn't funny. it stopped being funny a long time ago. it could have still been funny ocassionally, but assholes, like this one, ruined it. its dead. it hurts me to read it.


      it hurts you to read it? ouch, sounds like you are a bit uptight, try to have some fun sometimes. as for me being an 'asshole' feel free to look over my other past posts, they're usually not this funny. Oh, and just so you know:

      You have no chance to survive make your time.

      HA HA HA HA ....
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  3. Re:The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 by LLuthor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps the 32-bit UNIX calculator ends in 2038, but my 64-bit calculator does not end for at least 292.27 billion years - by which time I am sure even Windows will be 128-bit.

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  4. Re:Iran? China? by thumperward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oooh, lovely cracky mods this evening. HE DISSENTS! SEIZE HIM!

      - Chris

  5. Re:fair? by Xarius · · Score: 2, Funny

    A non-profit running the .commercial domain?

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  6. Re:The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 by FST777 · · Score: 3, Funny

    40% funny, 60% insightful

    This can only happen on /.

    This indeed was funny, worthy of at least 5 point. but insightful?!? Who, dear God, are those people that consider the Maya and the Internet closely enough related to mod this up insightful...

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  7. Re:The Mayan calendar ends in 2012 by FST777 · · Score: 2, Funny

    allright, didn't know that :)

    but IMHO, that's still a /. problem. I don't really care about my karma (probably since I've noticed nothing important about it) but if it's that important, why should funny posts not be rewarded?

    oh well, flamebait for sure...

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  8. Re:This is a racist comment. by Lucractius · · Score: 2, Funny

    yet these people cant even find one of the evil countrys people always talk about like North Korea...

    http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/002454.html

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