ICANN Releases New .com Contract

truthsearch writes "The Register is reporting that ICANN has released a revised contract for all dotcoms. The new revision hopes to bring an end to the huge legal fights surrounding the core of the Internet. From the article: 'Significant changes have been made to the deal - which will hand control of all dotcom domains to current owner VeriSign until 2012 - following widespread criticism from the Internet industry. Changes include limits on VeriSign's price-rising powers, reduced scope for VeriSign to sell personalized data to third-parties, and marginally increased control over VeriSign's ability to introduce changes to the existing dotcom business model.'"

Comments

Hey, what just happened?

[Celestial Avenger]

My dotcom all of a sudden has been replaced by a bunch of online poker links.

Re:The core?

[HaeMaker]

Could be worse, on December 31, 1999, ABC news was in the AOL NOC and the reporter asked the guy he was interviewing, "Is this the core of the Internet?", after pausing for a moment, wondering how much time in hell he was going to spend, responds, "Yes. This is the core of the Internet."

ICANN't control myself

[digitaldc]

When VeriSign was asked why they were handed control of all dotcom domains until 2012, they replied, "Why? Because ICANN!"

Re:The core?

[butterwise]

I believe the core is actually Al Gore's brain...