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

["John Palmer" <jpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is nothing but an attempt at wholesale theft of property from one group
of people (small businesses) by an organization so that they can sell that 
stolen
property to rich and powerful people. Most of the gTLDs that are popular
are already owned and operated by companies, most of them small businesses
with limited resources. You know how justice works in the country - You get
justice if you can buy it, otherwise, you're out of luck. They are now proposing
to do what they did with .BIZ back in 2000 on a wide scale basis.

Whats new? ICANN is all about stealing things it does not own and profiting
off of it. We all know, for instance, that the UDRP is nothing but a scheme 
that allows rich
and powerful interests to steal domains from poor people. 

ICANN, Dick Cheney, George Bush, the Bilderburgs, Hapsburgs, Vladimir
Putin, Robert Mugabe - no difference between any of them.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dominik Filipp" <dominik.filipp@xxxxxxxx>
To: <sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 1:59 PM
Subject: RE: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come with $100,000-plus 
price tag



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


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 5:03 PM
To: ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ga] New top-level internet addresses come with $100,000-plus
price tag


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).