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http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/agreements/92899spicann.htm
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>"But today we have 11 companies registering domain names
>in .com, where we only had one a year ago. And another 60
>companies are preparing to compete in this market. In less
>than one year ICANN has made substantial headway in creating
>an international consensus-based organization that will set
>the rules for this new system."
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>More accurately....Secretary Daley of the DOC should have said...
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>...today we have 11 companies registering domain names
>in .com, where there used to be thousands of companies....
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>...another 60 companies are preparing to be ICANN franchisees,
>even though ICANN does not appear to have filed any franchise
>papers with the U.S. Government...or the States that require such
>filings...also, as a non-profit company, ICANN is not supposed to
>be competing with for-profit companies according to the U.S.
>Government's IRS regulations...but that is a different agency and
>the Department of Commerce intends to "brass this out"...and
>we hope no one notices any of the details that may have been missed...
>
>...In less than one year, ICANN has managed to drive anyone
>with a clue about networking and an interest in innovating the future
>of the Internet into action to create a new Internet to route around
>the ICANN black-hole where people will likely not venture in the
>next century...
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