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ICANN Names New CEO, Will Pay Him $800,000 To Run the Internet

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-just-be-he-cann dept.

darthcamaro writes "ICANN has officially hired a new CEO to replace the Rob Beckstom. ICANN industry unknown Fadi Chehade is taking the top job — but there is a catch. He can't start for another 90 days, even though ICANN has been looking for a new CEO for months. Even better is Chehade's salary. ICANN will pay him $800,000 a year. Is the CEO of ICANN one of the highest paying jobs in the Internet governance landscape?"

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  1. CEO Pay by religious+freak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If it's not the highest paid it probably should be. If someone can run ICANN they can run a lot of other stuff too. Competition for qualified talent is difficult at the CEO level.

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    1. Re:CEO Pay by hondo77 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Competition for qualified talent is difficult at the CEO level.

      Says who?

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    2. Re:CEO Pay by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Interesting

      John Postel used to do the same job of ICANN CEO and an entire swathe of their senior management for free. That was only 20 years ago.

      While the net may have increased in scale since then, its complexity has not, and its has not grown to the point where someone needs to be paid $800,000 a year plus bonuses etc just to keep it all ticking over.

      As for the "competition" at the CEO level; while there is indeed a worldwide race to the very bowels of vapidity, fecklessness, and incompetence in this field, again, the cream of this crop are not worth paying $800,000 a year for.

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  2. Why do we even need ICANN? by Cyberax · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What does it do? It doesn't administer number resources - IANA, ARIN, RIPE, and *NICs do that. ICANN doesn't administer root servers (various companies do that).

    WTF is he doing?

  3. Re:Only fair by Mashiki · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To to be honest, I always thought that it would be a good idea if you could have a carname.gm or carname.ford or item.microsoft, or routername.cisco, siri.apple instead of .com. It just makes sense outside of a tech circle. Doesn't it make sense when you think about it? Governments should have a country.gov though, and same for countries. Yeah it might seem like a pain in the ass, and it is. But for the average person it's simple, it makes sense.

    But then again, for duplicate companies and all that there'd be hell to pay.

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  4. Talk about overpaid... by damn_registrars · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ICANN doesn't do shit these days (it can be argued they hardly ever did). All the current ICANN does is find more crappy ideas to make money off of. By chance did they hire the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert?

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