VeriSign could easily generate $100 million in revenue annually from Site Finder by selling "sponsored" results to search terms, said Mark Lewyn, chairman of Reston, Va.-based Paxfire Inc., which develops systems to redirect Internet traffic.
"War is breaking out between the regulators and the people they regulate. This is a real power struggle [over] who controls the rules on the Internet going forward," said said Paxfire's Lewyn.
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Nice smokescreen, Mark Lewyn.
.com/.net are currently controlled by Icann. I will put forward that .com/.net are resources that are or should be owned by all Net users.
Verisign is just doing some admin and technical work in this, and making a pile of money on it, i'm sure.
Did Verisign talk to the Internet community before it screwed with things in their wildcarding scheme?
Nope.
I put forward a motion to terminate the current contract they have to run .com/.net or At Least, not renew it.
Again, when does the current contract with Verisign expire ?
Whichever org or company that gets the new contract must abide by certain rules, including not wildcarding domains.
Swerve
At 12:40 PM -0700 10/3/03, George Kirikos wrote:
See:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40241-2003Oct3.html
I'm sure this isn't the end. Nor the beginning of the end. It's just the end of the beginning....
"We will accede to their request while we explore all of our options."
How much of this is simply co-ordinated PR between ICANN and VeriSign remains to be seen. If ICANN wants to show they've turned over a new leaf, they can follow my advice in:
http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00516.html
to stop other VeriSign abuses, namely WLS.
Sincerely,
George Kirikos 416-588-0269
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