Do you agree with our fee hike? Press 1 to answer Yes; or 2 for Yes It has long been a concern that domain-name overseer ICANN is largely funded by companies reliant on the organization to make money. Every biz that wishes to sell domain names – called a registrar – has to pay the organization $4,000 a year, plus 18 cents on every domain they sell. In addition, they have to pay a variable fee …
I have a sneaking regard for their sheer chutzpah: the registrars don't even get the promised reach-around and instead ICANN complains that they now have a headache, maybe next year...
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Yeah sure, at this point, why not ? It's not like they would have tested the thing before putting it into production, right ?
ICANN can say whatever they want anyway, it's not like anyone is going to trust their words.
I see only one solution : not voting. If they don't have the votes, they can't pretend everyone agrees.
Well, there is another solution, but it involves a hit man and a contract, and I think that, for us law-abiding citizens, it's rather frowned upon.
Pity.
"ICANN can say whatever they want anyway, it's not like anyone is going to trust their words."
It's not the lack of trust that is the problem. It's the fact that even if you have a complaint or grievance there's nothing you can do about it. The way ICANN is set up all the control is vested in the management and staff. The only contribution outsiders can make to this member-free member organisation is to pay up.
As to the non-voting, that's not going to work, even if all registrars voted against there's probably something in the regulations saying that in that case ICANN can just go ahead anyway. Just like in the rest of the way things are run.
This bunch of self-serving shits should not be in charge of a whelk stall, but they are in charge and as far as I can see apart from the US government there's not a lot anyone can do about it.
UK domain registration costs less, there are only about one tenth the number of domains to administer and they are similarly incompetent and it takes a large number of very well paid employees to achieve very little. I want a job there, I too could do bugger-all of any use if I was paid enough (come to think of it I already achieve that, don't tell the boss).
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