Bill,
You wrote:
>
> My nose insists upon telling me that I smell something putrid.
> This malady started when on internet.com I first read "ICANN
> Adopts Cyber-Squatting Policy" and then "ICANN gets Financial
> Boost." Is that not what many of us have been concerned about
> for years now, that ICANN was for sale by the highest bidder?
IMHO, your nose is right.
That's why I was in favour of financing ICANN in a different way, like for
instance with a $1 fee on domain names, or with a membership fee.
This would have avoided ICANN to be in need to find other sources of
revenue.
As Snoopy sais in "Peanuts": "The hand that holds the (food) bowl rules the
world".
>
> Keep records, troops. This will make a great documentary one
> day.
>
What I will enjoy most in this documentary is to see all those that were
against alternate sources of funding (membership, $1 domain name fee, and so
on) now complaining that ICANN has taken the money somewhere else, as if
this was not obvious to everybody (and spelled out clearly) since the
beginning.
Regards
Roberto
