ICANN Annoyances

As some of you may know, about 2 months ago M. Stuart Lynn, presidant
of ICANN, single handedly announced that ICANN has been a failure and and should be reformed. (see: the proposal) Among Mr. Lynn’s suggestions are: more govermental involvement and less individual user particapation in ICANN.\r\nWhat does this mean to us as Internet participants? A great deal unfortunately. ICANN is responsible for managing root DNS servers and overseeing domain re
gistries (like Verisign). ICANN’’s responsibilities are to the Internet as a whole and not to individual grandiosity. Additionally, shortly after Mr. Lynn’s edict, ICANN elected to drop its At-Large directors and members. (see url at header). This action suggests that Mr. Lynn, and the ICANN board have no interest in the Internet community as a whole. You can read about and respond to these actions at: the ICANN forum

Sex, tv, and money

In Feb. The domain sex.tv was pulled from Sex.tv Ltd. after disputes over the $688,000 contract between .tv Corp (now owned by VeriSign) and the registrant. Apparently. .tv corp. was not able to make the domain globally available, nor were they able to provide sex.tv with the 25% traffic share (approxamately 625,000 hit per month) promised in their contract. A lawsuit has now insued and .tv Corp. is now selling the domain for $1,000,000. You can buy it here:www.sex.tv This is the kind of silliness that occurs when large greedy corperations run domain registrations.

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