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VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012
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."
It's not simply the U.S. versus the rest of the world.
China and Iran are leading proponents of setting up some sort of UN-based body to replace ICANN. The European Union wants to keep ICANN in place, but have it answer to an international group. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and I think Japan back the U.S.
Who the hell modded this up? Ebay bought a very, very small part of Verisign, the part that did payment processing. No big deal. Verisign still controlls the .com, .net root servers, and that's all this article is about. Period.
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Quite an entertaining read.
* .root - a system TLD created without authorisation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.root
* ICANN - meetings held in Ghana and Tunisia and other countries that most people don't even know exist - see http://icannwatch.org/
Funny. But the .com domain can be controlled by a nonprofit. Companies are out to make money, and they will misuse their power if it makes them money. Every company except for verisign will benefit with a nonprofit on .com.
ICANN didn't rule out the redeployment of sitefinder, Verisign has mearly agreed to inform ICANN first and ICANN has promised to give a quick technical review.
Verisign will support ICANN as the controller of the DNS root against EU attempts to break the monopoly.
Verisign has fought hard to protect domain owners by limiting ICANN domain fees to only grow by a factor of 3, while ICANN has fought hard to protect domain owners by limiting Verisign to increasing their fees by 7% per year. </sarcasm>
Check out this post to the ICANN mailing list for more details.
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A mod of funny doesn't give the author any karma, but the negative mods still take away from karma. So the mods, having learned this, will mod someone insightful or interesting when they want to mod the post funny so the author doesn't get any karma hits.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
If you get enough downmods to get into negative karma, then you start posting at 0 (this happened to me once in 2002, IIRC), then down to -1, and I believe that if you get downmodded even further you get an autoban (though I'm not entirely sure of this).
Slashcode used to award karma for funny mods, but the powers that be suddenly decided that to get karma "You have to be smart, not just a smart-ass." Of course, later on the same page they contradict themselves, offering "If You Can't Be Deep, Be Funny" as a tip for improving your karma, with a small note essentially saying "ignore this", but that's slashdot for you.
I don't think you understand what free speech is. It has nothing to do with nipples and getting modded down. My nipples, for example, do not speak, nor am I familiar with any medical literature that talks about nippular vocal abilities.
In addition, being "modded down" does not infringe upon your free speech. If you were taken to jail for your post, then we would have a free speech issue on our hands.
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