Will Obama Shape The Future Of The Internet?
November 12, 4 Comments - Author: Simon Johnson
2009 is going to be a big year for all of us. ICANN wants to divorce the US government and screw up the Internet with 50 companies running new top-level domains, and application fees at $185,000 each. This gives them a mere $9,250,000 in cash; then cometh the domain registrations. Can we stop this? Yes we can!
The WSJ is reporting that companies are protesting about the proposed new domain names. Who is going to own .hotel or .bank and how much will they charge for a domain name in those TLD’s? Think about all the brands, variants, trademarks – this is going to be a very costly nightmare for business and lead to mass confusion on the part of the consumer.
ICANN‘s pathetic reason for existence is based on a deal with the US Government which expires in September 2009. The agreement is through the Department of Commerce and is known as the Joint Project Agreement (JPA). Will Obama renew it? What are some of the alternatives to ICANN? Running it through/with the Internet Governance Forum at the United Nations?
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This shall certainly be an interesting one to watch and be very close the hearts of all domainers based across the world and not just in the USA.
Im certainly hoping Obama can bring positive change!
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Robbie
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RegFeeNames.com
There wouldn’t be a problem if the new TLDs were limited to trademarked names like .eBay, .CBS, .Yahoo, etc.
At least Obama knows what the internet is… McCain admittedly doesn’t know anything about the internet and doesn’t even use email. =P
Check this out.. apparently Obama is already getting things in order by appointing the first CTO: http://obamacto.org/