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Vint Cerf Answering Questions on Top-Level Domains

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-you-have-been-dying-to-ask dept.

penciling_in writes "Over at CircleID, Vint Cerf is taking question from the community Slashdot-style with regards to top level domains. 'As most readers are no doubt aware, when it comes to the topic of Top-Level Domains (TLDs), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes center stage. From the existing .com and .net TLDs to the newly introduced and future releases, in the past years we witnessed the increasing level of discussions around Top-Level Domains painted -- ever so often -- with political, legal and technical debates. Vint Cerf, Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, who has served as chairman of the board of ICANN since the November of 1999 has accepted CircleID's invitation to directly respond to your questions on the topic. This is your opportunity to have your Top-Level Domain related questions responded by Vint Cerf.'"

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  1. Question for Vint by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Troll

    1) Did you ever get ribbed for having the same name as the idiot son on Mama's Family?

    2) If you were interested in acquiring a Slashdot ID like the one I've got, would you send an email to the owner's listed address with your exisiting Slashdot ID and a sample bad analogy?

  2. Why ask Vint Cerf anything? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why ask Vint Cerf anything at all about the Internet today? Vint Cerf had something to do with the Internet being what it is today, but has little if anything to do with the Internet *today*, and absolutly no influence or input at all in the management of the Internet today. Asking Vint Cerf about the Internet today is like asking Henry Ford about next year's models.

    --
    "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
  3. Re:Hi-Jacking of small states .tld etc. by chris_sawtell · · Score: 0, Troll
    If .to, .tv, and .cx were "hijacked", then so was every other piece of property that was ever sold by its owner to someone else.
    Seriously, is what the rest of the world calls "confidence trickery" not a crime in the US? I know the laws over there seem a bit weird to those of us in the rest of the world, but surely relieving somebody of their property for a minuscule fraction of what it is actually worth is an offense?
    The governments of those entities sold the rights to those TLDs. If those governments regret it now, they could seize it back at any time.
    How? They haven't got access to the DNS TLD root servers, Verisign or whoever have.

    Essentially, I have two arguments / questions here.

    1. Should the country codes be adhered to or not?
    2. Is it moral or otherwise to create a market of incredible value out of the DNS system?

    My own opinion is that the DNS country codes should be adhered to without exception, and that the creation of very real wealth out of the DNS "market" is a totally amoral act. Cost recovery for sure, but what is happening at the moment is just wrong.