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ICANN Cancels 'Digital Archery' Program

Posted by Soulskill on from the icann-see-why dept.

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."

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  1. Re:ICANN is the biggest pile of shit by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    BMO

  2. From the end of the article: by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Applicants stated that ICANN was not the owner of the money of the application funds it received, and asked when they could get their money back.

    "I am sad to tell you we are not giving you the money back, "ICANN's chair of the board Steve Crocker said,

    BECAUSE WE ALREADY SPENT IT ON HOOKERS AND BLOW.

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    BMO

  3. Re:Insane mismanagement by gQuigs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry no.. almost anyone but the ISPs.. I want my ISP to be as close to a dumb pipe as it can be.

  4. Re:Insane mismanagement by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unfortunately, anybody with the power to simpy reject ICANN and make it stick also has the power(and, certainly in the case of ISPs, also the inclination) to be even worse...

    In particular, ICANN has room for TLD fuckery, and seems to be making use of it lately; but ISPs are in the position to both engage in TLD fuckery and the overwhelmingly more serious business of controlling traffic for various rent-seeking or voice/cable TV legacy service preservation purposes.

    TLDs are a penny-ante sideshow by comparison.