[ga] ICANN kicks TLD applicants

[Karl Auerbach <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following statement from ICANN staff, apparently a statement not 
authorized by the board, to be one of the host hideous thing to ever be 
emitted by ICANN.  Given the statements from ICANN's highest authorities 
that the year 2000 applicants who did not get the nod at that time were 
merely placed on hold, this statement smacks of duplicity or worse.

In my mind it is tantamount to ICANN expropriating over $2,000,000, plus 
interest for 7 years, plus the priority position for certain names, from 
those who were not rejected, but not approved, in year 2000.

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/schwartz-to-hemphill-24jan07.pdf

To add to this, there are rumors now that ICANN wants new TLD 
applications to be accompanied by fees of one to two million US dollars.

Absurd. Unjustified.  Despicable.

		--karl--