Re: [ga] Registrants

[Hugh Dierker <hdierker2204@xxxxxxxxx>]

Again Andy, you do not have a right or a duty or a priviledge to buy that 
name.  This is known as free enterprise and commerce.  No body around here was 
born into a family or tradition that makes them have to be a domain name 
reseller. You buy from a registrar that chooses to pay that fee. Why do they?  
That again is known as freedom, they do not have to be in that business and 
they can be like Joe or our old friends with dotbiz. If you do not like the 
system -- stop pinching pennies and playing a blame game and whining and self 
organize and contribute and demand your rights.  Your failure to be included is 
not anyone elses fault.

--- On Mon, 11/9/09, Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Andy Gardner <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ga] Registrants
To: "Accountability Headquarters" <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 7:53 PM




On Nov 9, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Hugh Dierker wrote:

> You speak as though you have some right. Andy, you do not pay that fee to 
> ICANN. The registrars pay it.
> The fact they pay it and choose to is not your right to complain about.

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/legal_agreements/show_doc.asp?se=%2B&pageid=REG%5FSA

"You understand that ICANN requires Go Daddy to collect a small registration 
fee when You purchase Your domain name registration. You agree to pay such 
fees."

So what was that you were saying, Hugh?






> You can chose not to pay it.  You have no right to be a domain name reseller 
> or even user.

And therein lies the gist of the problem. The REGISTRANTS HAVE NO RIGHTS.


> 
> However if you self organized and were not so cheap as to pay for that 
> organization then you would have the collective powers to assert and develop 
> a right.  I cannot find a single reference anywhere that gives you a right to 
> have a voice in the governance of the Internet.

Well, this isn't the Internet, this is "names and numbers".





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