Re: [Full-Disclosure] Petition against VeriSlime's DNS abuse

[Jonathan A. Zdziarski]

Let me rephrase.  The systems (both physical systems and the rules governing the public systems) that allow Verisign to impose anti-competitive business practices on the community, such as blocking domain names that have expired from being deleted, wildcards for certain TLDs, etc., should be brought under one community-driven system where Verisign would either have to play by our rules or risk losing their relationship (and ability to register domains).  In order for this to happen, we need to replace GTLD-SERVERS.NET  and any other commercially owned "dot-this" registires with servers owned by this community-run organization that doesn't exist yet pushing both the responsibility and the power back to the community. 

e.g.  What I'm saying is the commercialism of the ".com" market has resulted in the serious needing of a design overhaul of the entire Internet Naming space to restore a pro-competitive market....a redesign that puts all TLDs in control of the non-commercial Internet community.  If it were that only Verisign could register .com's and .net's people would be up in arms over the monopoly... but what a lot of people don't realize is all the "alternative" companies out there that are selling .com's and .net's are completely under Verisign's control.  We've shifted from a neutral government-contracted entity (InterNIC) to a commercial entity and now have some serious Anti-Competitive issues that need dealing with.  I agree this is somewhat extreme, but IMHO this move to commercialization of the Internet was equally as extreme.

Please be clear about this:  "root registry" != ".COM/.NET registry".  The
"." domain "root" servers *are* under decentralized, and partly non-profit,
control.  Some of the root operators have publicly expressed disapproval
and/or disgust at VeriSign's move.

It's "GTLD-SERVERS.NET", which is owned by VeriSign and serves the "COM."
and "NET." zones, which have been futzed in this way.