Comments on: ICANN’s new TLD plan a betrayal of the public trust http://domainnamer.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/icanns-new-tld-plan-a-betrayal-of-the-public-trust/ Domain Name Collector's Domain Name Portfolio Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:13:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: John Berard http://domainnamer.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/icanns-new-tld-plan-a-betrayal-of-the-public-trust/#comment-127 John Berard Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:23:01 +0000 http://domainnamer.wordpress.com/?p=55#comment-127 Your post provokes three responses: 1. Tim Berners-Lee is a powerful name to drop, but if you are worried about giving "away a large chunk of this to a private group," the horse is already out of the barn. I mean when ICANN renewed Verisign's contract to run the .com registry in perpetuity, it also gave it price-setting power. Not a whole lot of power to the people. 2. The Internet was designed as a distributed network that would withstand disaster. As bad a steward as ICANN, it has not been disastrous. 3. It is hard to fathom that someone who promotes a motto of "Three cheers to the power of domain names!" (in your "About" description) would object to the development of new territory. Stay at it! Your post provokes three responses:

1. Tim Berners-Lee is a powerful name to drop, but if you are worried about giving “away a large chunk of this to a private group,” the horse is already out of the barn. I mean when ICANN renewed Verisign’s contract to run the .com registry in perpetuity, it also gave it price-setting power. Not a whole lot of power to the people.

2. The Internet was designed as a distributed network that would withstand disaster. As bad a steward as ICANN, it has not been disastrous.

3. It is hard to fathom that someone who promotes a motto of “Three cheers to the power of domain names!” (in your “About” description) would object to the development of new territory.

Stay at it!

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