[ga] .net Domain Up For Grabs - In the news - NY Times/slashdot

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

  From Slasdot and the NY Times:

" The New York Times is reporting that the bidding is on for the
.net domain currently administered by VeriSign.VeriSign's current
contract expires June 30th; applications are due today. Three
companies are known to be interested: NeuStar, which currently
manages .biz, Afilias, which manages .info, and Denic eG,
a non-profit that manages the German .de domain. ICANN
is bending over backward to avoid any suggestion of bias due to
its conflict with VeriSign over VeriSign's Site Finder "service" and
has appointed an independent team to evaluate the applications.
VeriSign has been lobbying hard to keep the domain and is reported
to have received letters of support from Microsoft and IBM."

See:
 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/01/18/141210
 http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/technology/17domain.html?ex=1263704400&en=e36cf08a057b36c3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

  It seems rather odd and disingenuous at least that if Paul Twomey
"Appointed" this so called independent body to evaluate these bids
and truly consider such a "Appointed" body to be independent.  Is
yet again the fix in?  Shouldn't the Domain Name holders or .net 
domain names be making this decision of at least have a significant 
voice in whom takes over .net? When one looks at whom the major bidders 
are, Affilias, NueStar, and Dnic eG from germany running the .de cctld,
one can't really find a good choice.  Dnic eG is unlikely to get the
bid due to the importance of .Net to the USG.  And god help us
all if either Affilias or NueStar get the bid, who's performance thus
far has been abysmal and shady...

 This process to me, and all of our members seems to yet again
demonstrate that ICANN and it's staff and BoD do not trust
the stakeholders/users, or do not wish to properly recognize
their stake...

Regards,

--
Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!)
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