Anupam Chander wrote:
>
> ICANN can still serve the interests of humankind by not privileging the
> entities that proposed the TLDs when it decides who will administer the TLDs
> it awards.
If this is a joke, it isn't very funny. ICANN is selling TLDs. The
$50K application fee makes that crystal clear. ICANN will now sell
registry rights, no doubt for far more than $50K, and will approve
those TLDs that are backed by corporations able to pay it huge
registry fees.
ICANN is a business, albeit one that expects not to pay taxes by
pretending to be a "public benefit non-profit corporation" (and it
may succeed in avoiding taxes thanks to the dupes who have
registered to be "at-large members").
ICANN's board are business people; its DNSO are all business people;
and its attorneys are corporate lawyers. ICANN is motivated by one
thing and one thing only: greed, the lowest common denominator of
the low class of people who created it. Uneducated, selfish, and
craven, ICANN will use new TLDs to make as much money as it can.
Michael Sondow
================================================================
"We need to be able to judge which is more important - the
images on the screen, the mechanisms that produce them, or
the world that they are striving to represent."
--Oscar Kenshur, in 'The Allure of the Hybrid'
================================================================
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF INDEPENDENT INTERNET USERS
http://www.iciiu.org (ICIIU) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel(718)846-7482 Fax(603)754-8927
================================================================
