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ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade has surprised the internet community by announcing he will step down from the job after just three years in the post. In an announcement on the domain name overlord's website, the organization said that Chehade has "informed the Board he will be concluding his tenure in March 2016 to move into a new …
Generally when something can't be found in DNS, the reply is NXDOMAIN.
Unfortunately many ISP have started hijacking this useful response (along with the useful 404).
Well, I'm not sure if he presided over the screaming debacle that is the WHOIS Accuracy Program, but if it's him, good riddance.
That is a classic in terms of adding stupid amounts of red tape to no benefit whatsoever. All it does is ADD risk, not remove it.
Is not ICANN finding a successor, it's ICANN finding a successor that it will be able to shape to its twisted mentality.
I'm hoping the next person to step up to the position will purge the management by fire and set up something that is finally as honest, professional and transparent than what the world needs.
I also hope to win the Lottery someday. I think that just might be slightly more likely.
In any case, I propose myself as next ICANN CEO.
I surely can't do worse.
So just NX D (CEO) then ;)
It's not that he was a useless slimeball - there are lots of those - it's that he was a two-faced back-stabbing useless slimeball who tried to screw everyone for a buck and a soundbite
Sadly the self-serving nepotists will just select someone equally as pointless to waste millions of our do-lars.