Thanks Bill -- I have been making that point now for about two years,
and you are the first person to restate it in other words!
I welcome your support for the concept that ICANN is claiming to onw
things that they have not been conceived.
My claim is that the "ICANN owns all names" business model is terribly
flwaed, and that the correc tmodel is that they hold advertising space
in their zone file, and registrants rent that space to adversise their
DNS names, wwwhich are owned by the registrant.
At least the registrant owns the right of use, whci ICANN does not and
the registrar does not and the registry does not.
Cheers...\Stef
>From your message Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:11:51 -0800:
}
}At 11:49 PM 3/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
} The name may be property, but it's the property
}>of ICANN, and leased not to the registrant but to the registrar, who
}>acts in the name of and retains the prerogatives of the property
}>owner, ICANN.
}
}Well, we'll see about that. I have in my mind right now a domain name.
}Before I thought it up, it did not exist. Some space on some registry
}existed, true enough, but that space was not filled up with some ghost-
}like image of the domain name I'm thinking of. ICANN is saying that
}as soon as I tell one of the registrars what that name is, and tell them
}I want to park it there, then the ownership of that domain name
}transmogrifies over to ICANN? Horse puckey.
}
}Bill Lovell
}
}
