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Domain-name overseer ICANN wants your suggestions for how it should spend the $60m it made from auctioning off new dot-words. In a discussion paper [PDF] published today, the wannabe-master-of-the-internet notes that it has $58.8m in a special bank account. Just under half of it stemmed from Google, which paid $25m for the …

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  1. Mark 85
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    May I suggest that the funds be given (distributed) to the El Reg Commentards individually? We understand their angst and we'll take the burden off them and give funds to various organizations and causes we, as individuals, deem worthy.

    For my share.... a small pub needs the funds for some re-paint and fix-up-------->

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    1. Zmodem
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      make mine atleast 5000 sterling and I might make a £40 drone fly around powered by a perpetual generator stretching 8mins to atleast 100,000 hours fly time

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    mono mono mono mono~

    You know, a town with money's a little like the mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and danged if he knows how to use it!

    They're going to build Elon Musk's hyperloop.

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  3. ecofeco Silver badge

    Easy

    Put pressure on the W3C to fucking ratify HTML 5 and let's be done with it already.

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    1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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      Re: Easy

      Let's not and screw a functioning process in order to appear to solve a totally different issue.

      W3C may be slow, but ICANN it sure ain't.

      I am beginning to think that there is only one way to solve the ICANN issue, and it involves a .44 and a very determined person.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    What's the point of commenting?

    The fix is in, they're going to give it to their pet project, which oh by the way will pay the leadership 7 figure salaries because it is a hard job, you know.

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    1. WatAWorld
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      They'll let FIFA be their guide

      Without regulation they'll spend it on:

      a) 6 and 7 figure fees for board members

      b) first class accommodation in 5 star hotels

      c) private jets for when business class is the highest class available on scheduled airlines

      d) meals in Micheline starred restaurants

      e) very lengthy studies by friendly law firms charging over $200 per hour

      The bylaws should ban paying for:

      a) paying for travel by private jets

      b) paying for first class travel on flights less than 8 hours duration

      c) paying for business class travel on flights of less than 2 hours duration unless the traveler is over either 5'10" or 200 pounds.

      d) accommodation in more than hotels rated higher than 3 stars

      e) meals costing more than the amount currently permitted by [some civil service]

      f) liquor

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      1. Mark 85
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        Re: They'll let FIFA be their guide

        Nice list but you left out the charges for "female/male companionship/escort/whatever" services.

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  5. druck Silver badge
    Stop

    Refund

    How about refunding everyone involved in the .words fiasco, consigning it to history where it belongs.

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  6. asdf

    one big exception

    Except in Brewster Millions, Brewster unlike icann wasn't the villain.

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  7. WatAWorld

    ICANN should spend money on security and law enforcement.

    A normal company's, including a normal non-profit's, constitution or articles of incorporation proscribe spending on a wide variety of issues and permit spending only on some issues.

    If ICANN doesn't have these, then that is the first thing it should spend money on.

    Secondly, ICANN should spend money on security and law enforcement -- to make the products it sells (domain names) worth the money the auctions provide.

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