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ICANN Cancels 'Digital Archery' Program
itwbennett writes "ICANN announced today that it has canceled the Digital Archery contest it had planned to use to decide which gTLD applications would be evaluated first. The organization gave no indication of what it will do instead. In making the announcement, Cherine Chalaby, chair of the gTLD Program Committee, said, 'We will not make a decision in Prague but will take all of the ideas into account and build a roadmap,' adding that the roadmap will detail the next steps and timelines as well as assess implications to applicants and the risk to the program."
Bernie Madoff comes to mind.
Oh, bullshit: he was supremely competent at ripping people off. ICANN could not be more different!
Unless, of course, they weren't trying to rip people off at all. That would be different indeed ;-)
Can't win them all.
work in progress
These stumbles with the sponsored gTLD flop speak volumes for ditching the whole ICANN in its current form. In practice, this hastens the development that will eventually lead to the United Nations taking over the ICANN's current operations; a death sentence to Internet neutrality and uncensored access.
This shows that ICANN has no clue what they're doing. All they cared about was getting the huge cash infusion from the application fees. They should at the very least have had the entire process planned out from the beginning.
What would be nice now would be fore a coalition of major ISPs to state that the new TLDs are stupid, and they won't support any of them on their name servers. That should pretty much kill the whole thing. In fact, and association of ISPs could use this as a chance to replace ICANN, demonstrating that their authority is limited based on the extent that the ISPs agree to let them have the authority.
... ICANN is likely just waiting to see if they can get some of the bidders to offer some additional revenue under the table for the names that more than one company wanted to buy. They certainly don't give a damn about coherence or ethics at ICANN.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
We could just tell them its a recreation of their Jedi vs Klingon war fanfic and they'd go nuts. The TV ratings alone would make ICANN millions.
Oh, I don't know if they're actually that competent. But then evil is there because being competent is too hard.
It seems that they have been making decisions of late that come from late nights out at the bar, hookers, and blow.
ICANN VP#1: Hey I have an idea, let's charge 185,000 dollars for these new TLDs - it's the speed of packets travelling down a wire in miles per second!!! ISN'T THAT NEAT?
ICANN BOARD: What a perfectly capital and cromulent idea, old chap!
ICANN VP#2: Hey, we can't decide who should get these new TLDs if more than one entity decides to buy the same TLD. Let's make a game! A flash game that you can't audit! We can have it cheat and give advantage to our buddies!
ICANN BOARD: What a perfectly capital and cromulent idea, old chap!
ICANN TECH: Holy shit guys, someone walked away with the list of bids and bidders!
ICANN FLASH DEVELOPER: This flash game is BOLLOCKS. I can't make a workable game *and* have it cheat without without it being too obvious!
ICANN SWITCHBOARD SECRETARY: Goddamnit, I can't handle all these irate calls!
ICANN BOARD: OH SHIT!
PUBLIC: YOU GUYS ARE IDIOTS!
ICANN BOARD: OOPS.
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BECAUSE WE ALREADY SPENT IT ON HOOKERS AND BLOW.
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So with Google running public DNS servers on 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 if I were Google I'd just be tempted to start serving the domains they applied for (e.g. .lol and so on). ICANN is pretty obviously corrupt/incompetent at this point.
love this headlines just assumes we all stay riveted to icann minutae
love this headlines just assumes we all stay riveted to icann minutae
FTFA: "The chosen method to decide which application would be handled first consisted of an online archery contest where applicants had to shoot their digital arrow as close as they could to the bulls eye of a time stamp called Digital Archery. After applicants complained that they experienced unexpected results and reported network latency issues, ICANN decided to suspend the program last weekend."
That's cool, I think "digital archery" sounds like a better idea for Nintendo.
"We will not make the decision in Prague ... no, this decision will require at least 15-20 more all-expenses-paid meetings in luxury resorts around the world."
We live, as we dream -- alone....
How did you get the transcript from their meeting?
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
"old chap"
"cromulent"
When did ICANN become British?
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
"Digital Archery" is very apt. It's a stupid name for a stupid idea made by a stupid organization.
"cromulent"
I say, old bean, this isn't a British word at all. Some American chappie called David X. Cohen came up with this word for "The Simpsons", which is apparently a very popular animated show.
Toodle pip!
Since when is "The Simpsons" British?
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
If [...] B offers some amount that is higher they will go tell C what the offer was from B and ask them to beat that offer.
And on eBay, each bidder knows when he has been outbid. How is this different?
Seriously? I mean, seriously? ICANN, even briefly, introduced online gaming into the process of creating new top level domains? I knew that the Internet could resemble a circus, but that really stretches the limits of believability.
Pardon me while I file a registration for .barnum.
> ICANN Cancels 'Digital Archery' Program
The article continues:
"The 'Digital Archery' program had itself replaced the earlier and even less popular 'Digital Ball Cupping' Program."
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
has cheezeburgers?
It was essentially the equivalent of ICANN going 'I'm thinking of a number between x and y...' and people trying to guess the number to get their gTLD applications looked at first.
Nobody cares what the CAPTCHA for your post was.
The rotten and corrupt Domain Name System.
Has ICANN ever had any clue about what it's doing? It is the keymaster to the modern Fort Knox, and it has always been supremely incompetent in every way.
How is it possible for "typo domains" to scam millions every year by violating legitimate trademarks? Why would you expand the top level domains without ensuring they segregate names into sites that don't conflict with each other, which is the only purpose of a namespace, thereby ensuring that names in the different TLDs do conflict and confuse the consumer?
ICANN is a gang of dangerous morons. They're creating a competence vacuum that tyrannies like China, Russia, Iran and the corporate taliban in the US are using to seize control of the Internet to destroy its freedom.
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If [...] B offers some amount that is higher they will go tell C what the offer was from B and ask them to beat that offer.
And on eBay, each bidder knows when he has been outbid. How is this different?
A couple important ways
In other words, it really isn't like eBay. Few people would want eBay to operate like that - especially bidders.
Being as ICANN is not telling what is going on, they are likely manipulating the system to maximize their own profits. They have shown lately that the most certainly don't give a damn about the consequences that their crappy decisions have on the internet or any users of it.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Yeah no kidding, it usually takes weeks to get those.
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Is why are domain names still a hierarchy? They were only designed that way because computing resources were expensive.
Think about it. Do we want to give people names or entire hierarchies and hops they do the right thing?
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The bad guys always sound British!