ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government To Seize Domain Names

malcontent · 20 Apr 2023, 08:35 PM

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ICANN, the organization that regulates global domain name policy, and Verisign, the abusive monopolist that operates the .COM and .NET top-level domains, have quietly proposed enormous changes to global domain name policy in their recently published “Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET”, which is now open for public comment.

Either by design, or unintentionally, they’ve proposed allowing any government in the world to cancel, redirect, or transfer to their control applicable domain names! This is an outrageous and dangerous proposal that must be stopped. While this proposal is currently only for .NET domain names, presumably they would want to also apply it to other extensions like .COM as those contracts come up for renewal

ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names

Bamb0 · 21 Apr 2023, 03:53 AM

Im surprised they dont already!

SideshowBob · 22 Apr 2023, 12:54 AM

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ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government To Seize Domain Names

This reading seems very contrived. The author seems like a nutter to me.

jarland · 22 Apr 2023, 04:29 AM

I get where they're coming from in reading it, but their interpretation sounds like a college freshman reading his or her first legal document. They're extracting words and phrases as though their mere existence in sequence means what they think it means, which is a watered down version of what it actually means that excluded the context of the words around it.

21 Apr 2023, 03:53 AM	#2
Bamb0 Master of the @ Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: USA Posts: 1,873	Im surprised they dont already!

22 Apr 2023, 04:29 AM	#4
jarland Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 399 Representative of: MXRoute.com	I get where they're coming from in reading it, but their interpretation sounds like a college freshman reading his or her first legal document. They're extracting words and phrases as though their mere existence in sequence means what they think it means, which is a watered down version of what it actually means that excluded the context of the words around it.