[ga] Re: [Politech] ICANN and Verisign settle lawsuits, Verisign gets .com forever [econ]

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

Well it looks like the stakeholder/user gets screwed again. ICANN gets
allot more money to spend on junkets, Verisign again keeps .COM
as I once predicted forever essentially. And the UN is left out in
in the cold with a new enemy as a lobbyist, Verisign.  So everybody
caved in their own self interests and the stakeholder/user is the
eventual victim.  How special is this?!

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> Some background from the archives:
> http://www.politechbot.com/2004/09/10/bill-stewart-on/
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ICANN and Verisign settle lawsuits, Verisign gets .COM forever
> Date: 24 Oct 2005 23:31:30 -0400
> From: John L <johnl@xxxxxxxx>
> To: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: ALAC <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> A most interestesting announcement appeared on the ICANN web site today.
>
> It says that ICANN and Verisign have agreed to settle all pending
> lawsuits, and there's a new .COM agreement, all tentative but if history
> is any guide, there's no way short of DOC action that's going to stop it.
>
> The good news is that Verisign has agreed not to make unilateral changes
> like Sitefinder.  They have to give prior notice to ICANN for any material
> change in the operation of the registry, and if ICANN has any concerns
> there's a lengthy process full of expert panels and Consensus and the like
> to decide whether they can do it.  They agree to treat all registrars the
> same, not to own more than 15% of any registrar, and a long laundry list
> of things to prevent favoritism.
>
> In the settlement agreement, Verisign also agrees to
>
>    reiterate its support for ICANN as the appropriate technical
>    coordination body for the DNS, in particular with respect to
>    Internet domain names, IP address numbers, root server system
>    management functions, and protocol parameter and port numbers.
>    VeriSign also agrees that it will continue to be an advocate
>    for the private sector solution to the coordination of
>    Internet names and addresses, including (without limitation) that
>    VeriSign will advocate ICANN's appropriate role in that process.
>
> or to put it in practical terms, they'll lobby for ICANN at WSIS, which is
> good news for ICANN if not necessarily for the world at large.
>
> The bad news is that the new .COM agreement gives the .COM registry to
> Verisign until 2012, with automatic renewals forever unless they go
> bankrupt or materially breach the agreement.  The registry fee, now $6,
> can increase 7% per year.  The ICANN fee, currently 25 cents, jumps to 37
> cents on 1 Jan, to 45 cents on 1 Jul, and 50 cents on 1 July 2007, the
> revenue to be used for a list of virtuous causes including anything ICANN
> wants to use it for.  I guess this means I don't have to worry about
> flying coach to ICANN meetings.
>
> The press release and links to all the documnets are at
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-24oct05.htm
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
> "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
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Regards,

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