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."

Comments

Verisign icky!

[mister_llah]

They tried to start a 'service' to redirect mistyped domain names to a search engine (with ads)....

These same people also make 6 dollars per year for the 35 million .com domain names in use, and then also the .net names.

They are icky.

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Of course, one has to wonder... WWCD? What would China do? (if they had control) ... or any other nation/entity vying for 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) ... and I think right now its as free as it's going to be...

Why mention only China and Iran?

[CharAznable]

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!"