RE: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come with $100,000-plus price tag

["Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>]

Sotiris,

bright conclusions as usual, but I see one positive aspect on it, a
decrease of Verisign's .COM dominance. Just imagine perfect URL
addresses such as

http://microsoft
http://ibm
http://xerox

affordable for the rich though.

But all the rest in your post remains perfectly valid.

Dominik


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All,

See article:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4218629
.ece

One last money grab by the looters at ICANN and their moocher cronies.
The day of the truly international, standardized Internet is over. This
move is a pretty transparent attempt to dominate any DNS system by a
bunch of shortsighted and pigheaded individuals who have all the
visionary capacity of a rotten potato. The real (and unstated) intent of
this move is to preclude the advent of extra-ICANN DNS systems in any
language on earth, such that the resulting (or continuing) US dominated
addressing system will remain within the purview of American control. In
effect, what ICANN is telling the world is that no country/nation has
the right to create its own DNS as they will simply collide it into
irrelevancy and make a handsome "profit" at the same time!

A sad day for Internet users worldwide.

Sotiris

P.S. I will be unsubscribing from this list as there is no longer any
reason for me to follow the meaningless blabber hereon. Good luck to all
of you (except to the looters and moochers, I hope your genitalia rot).