https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/
98% of the comments were opposed.
How many / which companies would have to get onboard in order to get enough support for an icann alternative?
Is such a thing even feasible?
-Dan
Operator of the dot-com registry, Verisign, has decided to pay DNS
overseer ICANN $4m a year for the next five years in order to “educate
the wider ICANN community about security threats.”
98% of the comments were opposed.
How many / which companies would have to get onboard in order to get
enough support for an icann alternative?
Is such a thing even feasible?
Forget about being opposed or not. If ICANN wants to buy education
about security threats why are they receiving money? Quite obviously
something fishy is going on (or El Reg is full'o'shit).
I'd like a Phd in Physics. Please give me $2million for each of the
next five years for the privilege of lecturing me.
El Reg is more of a tabloid than industry media, but you can read almost the same views at domain industry blogs:
http://domainincite.com/25129-breaking-verisign-pays-icann-20-million-and-gets-to-raise-com-prices-again
https://domainnamewire.com/2020/01/03/com-prices-are-going-up-after-verisign-pays-off-icann/
Rubens
In article <CAGFn2k3E7q5GbH6m9PmHp2+bmna33PPtdHFdFSXDBjyeAodRKw@mail.gmail.com> you write:
El Reg is more of a tabloid than industry media, but you can read almost
the same views at domain industry blogs:
Verisign pays ICANN $20 million and gets to raise .com prices again - Domain Incite
.Com prices are going up after Verisign pays off ICANN - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
I agree about El Reg, and would say the same thing about the other two which
are by and for domain speculators.
The domainnamewire story is just wrong, claiming that the $20M will go
into the ICANN general fund while in fact it's earmarked for security
projects.
The impact of this is that if you have a .com domain name, you may
have to budget as much as an additional $3/yr. Wahoo. I don't
necessarily think that Verisign is a pinnacle of virtue (although it
has been very good to its shareholders) but it's a tempest in a domain
speculator's teapot.
R's,
John
Hi John,
I have no problem paying an extra $3/year for my .com IF every domain
speculator must also pay an extra $3 for each of their .coms. Is that
what's happening here?
Regards,
Bill Herrin
I have no problem paying an extra $3/year for my .com IF every domain
speculator must also pay an extra $3 for each of their .coms. Is that
what's happening here?
Yes. The contract very clearly says that everyone pays the same renewal price to the registry.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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