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Domain-name overseer ICANN is failing in two fundamental tasks, according to the US government, while spending millions of dollars of internet users' money trying to take control of the critical IANA technical contract. In a letter sent earlier this month from the Senate's Judiciary Committee to the White House new “IP Czar” …

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  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge
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    When is this farce going to end ?

    Until what point can ICANN push the boundaries until somebody finally wakes up and puts a stake through it ?

    The ICANN board is the height of hubris, hypocrisy, and borderline corruption - hardly what is needed to administer a world resource.

    Kill it with fire.

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    1. Mark 85
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      Re: When is this farce going to end ?

      You beat me... though I would suggest after the fire, bulldoze it into ground.

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      1. Trigonoceps occipitalis
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        Re: When is this farce going to end ?

        Then ... then ... do it again!

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    2. PleebSmash
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      Re: When is this farce going to end ?

      The hundreds of millions of dollars from gTLD applications and auctions could sustain the ICANN beast for quite some time.

      I wouldn't be surprised to see them do it again... after all there are many strings yet untapped.

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    3. Oninoshiko
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      Re: When is this farce going to end ?

      Borderline?

      Complete corruption.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Each story I read about ICANN makes me think 'there is no way that I could be more disgusted by this organisation than I am now', and then the next one appears....

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