excerpt:
VeriSign could easily generate $100 million in revenue annually from
Site Finder by selling "sponsored" results to search terms, said Mark
Lewyn, chairman of Reston, Va.-based Paxfire Inc., which develops
systems to redirect Internet traffic.
"War is breaking out between the regulators and the people they
regulate. This is a real power struggle [over] who controls the rules
on the Internet going forward," said said Paxfire's Lewyn.
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Nice smokescreen, Mark Lewyn.
.com/.net are currently controlled by Icann. I will put forward that
.com/.net are resources that are or should be owned by all Net users.
Verisign is just doing some admin and technical work in this, and
making a pile of money on it, i'm sure.
Did Verisign talk to the Internet community before it screwed with
things in their wildcarding scheme?
Nope.
I put forward a motion to terminate the current contract they have to
run .com/.net or At Least, not renew it.
Again, when does the current contract with Verisign expire ?
Whichever org or company that gets the new contract must abide by
certain rules, including not wildcarding domains.
Swerve
At 12:40 PM -0700 10/3/03, George Kirikos wrote:
>See:
>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40241-2003Oct3.html
>
>I'm sure this isn't the end. Nor the beginning of the end. It's just
>the end of the beginning....
>
>"We will accede to their request while we explore all of our options."
>
>How much of this is simply co-ordinated PR between ICANN and VeriSign
>remains to be seen. If ICANN wants to show they've turned over a new
>leaf, they can follow my advice in:
>
>http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/ga/msg00516.html
>
>to stop other VeriSign abuses, namely WLS.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>George Kirikos
>416-588-0269
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