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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."
They tried to start a 'service' to redirect mistyped domain names to a search engine (with ads)....
.com domain names in use, and then also the .net names.
... or any other nation/entity vying for control...?
... and I think right now its as free as it's going to be...
These same people also make 6 dollars per year for the 35 million
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Of course, one has to wonder... WWCD? What would China do? (if they had control)
Mountain View, California-based VeriSign introduced a search engine in September 2003 that directed Internet users who mistype domain names like "www.example.com" to a search engine which contained advertisements
IMHO, The internet should always be 'free' (except for the cost of connection)
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So let me get this straight:
.com until 2012, instead of 2007 BECAUSE they fucked up in the first place with that outrageous wildcard-advertising?
1. Verisign introduces wildcard
2. ICANN tells them to temporarily suspend that
3. Verisign sues, but the case gets thrown out
4. Verisign sues again and they settle that Verisign keeps its reign over
5. No ??? here, just profit.
Oh yea, and the people wonder why do I and apparently the rest of the world think that ICANN and the USA is not doing the task it had been given properly?
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Why not the EU or any other number of countries that don't have despotic governments? Countries depend on the internet for a number of things, and it's only natural and sensible that they don't want to trust their vital infrastructures to Verisign or the US. Mentioning China and Iran seems like a lame attempt at scaremongering. "Imagine, the internet in the hands of China! Oh noes!"
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The prices for .com names may go up significantly - 7% per year.
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And ICANN's slice goes up to 50cents per name per year.
All of this adds up to increased taxation on those who acquire domain name, i.e. you and me. Yet we are unrepresented in ICANN's decision-making processes. Can you say "taxation without representation"?
And if you really think about it, what is the actual cost to provide a service in which the yearly cost is that of *not* removing an entry for a database and in which the resources consumed are a few hundred bytes of disk space?
I've suggested a new domain name selling model - The