RE: [ga] ICANN Board unanimously approves .biz/.info/.org registry agreements by 13-0

[sotiris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Danny,

Who the hell do you think is paying for the champagne and the (Beluga)
caviar!?

The Members of the Inner Party know what's best for everybody, don't you
know tovarisch?!  SO please, let us not question their obviously superior
vantage point and intelligentsia...

Na zdorovia!

SS


> ...and your duty to the Internet community included
> allowing monopolies to raise their prices, and
> allowing the exploitation of data on non-existent
> domain names so that typosquatting activities may
> proliferate.  How very steward-like of you.
>
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> --- Veni Markovski <veni@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> At 03:47 PM 11.12.2006 '?.'  +0100, Dominik Filipp
>> wrote:
>> >Veni an all,
>> >
>> >that's exactly the point. If over 90% comments are
>> against the proposal
>> >I don't understand how the proclaiming support for
>> the bottom-up
>> >consensus can hold any further.
>>
>> I have explaned several of my votes, which I
>> consider very important
>> in the last years. The explanations are at
>> http://blog.veni.com , and
>> also in the minutes. As for the percents, one thing
>> I've learnt is
>> that sometimes the percents are not really what
>> matters - you see, in
>> the so called socialist camp (yes, the world before
>> 1989 was divided
>> in "capitalist world", and "socialist camp" - I
>> guess you can see the
>> irony here), there were usually 99.2 % voting in
>> favor of the ruling
>> communist party. In the USA the majority of the
>> people approved the
>> war in Iraq. Etc, etc. Public opinion polls are not
>> always the
>> arguments that one has to listen to, when acting. I
>> would have agreed
>> with you, if I were a politican or a showman, who
>> cares about his
>> image. Since I am neither, and I had duties to the
>> Internet community
>> and ICANN, and not to the GA mailing list, I somehow
>> do not feel the
>> arguments of the majority were very compelling. By
>> the way, obviously
>> the same feelings were in all other directors,
>> because people from
>> all over the world voted the same way.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Veni Markovski
>> http://www.veni.com
>>
>> check also my blog:
>> http://blog.veni.com
>>
>>
>>
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