I'd go one step further -
(this only refers to gtld's)
I'd recommend that ICANN be a registration authority only. The keeper of
lists of unique entries.
ICANN controls the collection, not the individual entries. ICANN does not
publish (provide name resolution service).
ICANN licenses the right to publish (provide name resolution service for)
entries in its list to one or more service providers. What the provider is
licensing is not the name, but the quality of uniqueness guaranteed by
ICANN.
I or my organization registers a name with ICANN, and they add it to the
list, guaranteeing that it will remain unique in the context of that list.
That's it. I pay once.
I or my organization then decide that the entry should be published (someone
should provide name service) so I contact one of the licensed name service
providers, and request that they provide name resolution service for my
entry in the ICANN list. I pay periodically to maintain name resolution
service.
In this model I never lose control of my entry, and am only requesting a
service from a couple of organizations. I also maintain sole responsibility
for how the entry is used.
There are a lot of positive benefits to this model. I could go on, but my
fingers are getting tired.
David Schutt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Einar
> Stefferud
>
> So, let's stop fighting and decide who owns DNS names.
>
> Is ICANN setting itself up to rent names to registrants or to rent
> advertising space to DNS Name Owners?
>
> I vote for the advertising business model!
>
> Cheers...\Stef
>
>
