On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
> But what exactly is the "screw" here?
Verisign was (as far as I knew) given *stewardship* of the .com and
.net zones as a public trust. I don't see anywhere they were given
the right to use their stewardship to try to make money selling typo
eyeballs. (And note that unless you do something *really* ugly like
round-robin the wildcards, only one organization can do this per TLD
- so they're essentially abusing their monopoly).
So the question boils down to: Are they owners of .com, or merely
caretakers?
An excellent question! But that is a discussion that belongs with
ICANN, not the IETF.
Jim