[governance] New dot com agreement changes USG-ICANN relationship

[Carlos Afonso]

I guess it would be better to ask the companies using airbus.com, 
bayer.com, siemens.com, bombardier.com (all non-US, all among the most 
important in the world, all these URL leading to their root portals), 
among thousands of others, if this is important to them.

Veni, being lightheaded on such a serious issue does not help the 
organization you belong to.

If Icann did not exist, may be we would have the opportunity to finally 
create an autonomous, pluralist, truly international, 
government-independent organization.

--c.a.

Veni Markovski wrote:
> When you say "most valuable", I guess you mean the US?
> Here's an interesting story:
> 
> An American (Milton) is discussing an US department, dealing with an US 
> company, about something that concerns US customers. But your picture 
> would not be full if you don't involve the US-based non-profit, which is 
> the only one in the equation that has international approach on a number 
> of issues.
> 
> I start to think that if ICANN didn't exist it, we would have to create 
> it, or else all the steam would go to the government :)
> 
> veni
> 
> P.S. Why don't you ask someone from the 10 million .de domain name 
> holders, if they consider .com as "most valuable TLD"?
> 
> At 02:01 PM 01.12.2006 '?.'Ъ▄Ж  -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
>> ICANN's 8-year experiment in nongovernmental governance of the
>> Internet's domain name system all but came to an end November 30. The
>> U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it, and not ICANN, would be
>> the ultimate "decider" when it comes to dot com. Dot com is the largest
>> and most valuable Internet top level domain, accounting for about 50% of
>> the global market.
>>
>> Read the complete story at the IGP site:
>> http://internetgovernance.org/news.html#ICANNVeriSignSettlement_113006
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> 
> Sincerely,
> Veni Markovski
> http://www.veni.com
> 
> check also my blog:
> http://blog.veni.com
> 
> 
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