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One thing in the news item on the renewal of .com agreement
interested me a lot.<br>
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</font>"The deal is currently under review by the US Department of
Commerce and Bidzos said he expects it to be approved before
November 30, when the current contract expires."<br>
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I did not know that US government exercised review over ICANN's
routine contract renewals. So much for the claims that US hardly
exercises any 'real' or 'in effect' oversight role over ICANN.<i><b>
Can anyone provide us a list of what all decisions of ICANN
are subject to US gov's review and confirmation</b></i>, <i><b>and
in what manner.</b></i> This will help one form a good view of
what really is the oversight role with US at present, something
which has always been so much in the eye of the storm.<br>
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I direct this question especially at those who seem so awfully
disappointed that despite the best efforts of ICANN/ technical
community, most outsiders, especially </font><font face="Verdana">those
</font><font face="Verdana">with pathological political
sensitivities, simply are not able to understand much :). <br>
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Pl note that the above is a simple and direct question, and should
be able to have a clear and direct response. I am sure ICANN
insiders would know the answer.<br>
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parminder <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Saturday 04 August 2012 12:37 PM,
Riaz K Tayob wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:501CCA49.5030605@gmail.com" type="cite">This
can be understood in terms of path dependency as well as Public
Choice theory... at some level of abstraction.
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On 2012/08/03 02:48 PM, Fouad Bajwa wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">The financial aspect and opportunities
will always be there because at
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the end of the day, we see a lot of stuff that inclines towards
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benefiting the domain industry.
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Best
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Fouad
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On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Fahd A. Batayneh
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com"><fahd.batayneh@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://domainincite.com/9845-icann-to-get-8-million-more-from-new-com-deal">http://domainincite.com/9845-icann-to-get-8-million-more-from-new-com-deal</a>
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I wonder if this was the reason why ICANN renewed the .com
agreement in
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favor of VeriSign Inc., causing lots of controversy and
question marks
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within the ICANN community.
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Fahd
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