Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet
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Re: Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet
#2Is there anything meaningful that non-US based people can do? Who is ICANN accountable to internationally?
I read this, and it doesn’t seem they are accountable to anyone? But I am probably wrong. Enlighten me. https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability
Re: Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet
#3Looks like Russian-style "privatization" has finally come to America!
Re: Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet
#4Looks like Russian-style "privatization" has finally come to America!
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Re: Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet
#5> The level of corruption on display by the three organizations involved in this scam: ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), ISOC (The Internet Society), and PIR (Public Interest Registry), is astounding and very illegal.
If these organizations are so corrupt, then them selling .org simply demonstrates that they're too corrupt to manage it. We can't simply reverse this, you're just handing it back to the entity that sold it.
So... what do we replace them with? Because I'm pretty sure you'll get a new organization made up of people who will be as fallible and prone to corruption as any of these organizations and Ethos are.
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#8Seems like the most likely route to success would be for a few big internet companies to set up a .org nonprofit and treat it as the authority, ignoring icann. Fork the tld, in other words.
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#9> Funny how this all happened right when the American public would be distracted
The vast majority of the American public wouldn't care about this no matter when it happened.
Re: Take action to save .org and prosecute those who sold out the internet
#10It was a mistake to have GLTDs other than the two-letter country codes. That would have ensured that the DNS namespace was partitioned in a way that mapped directly to legal jurisdictions.
As it is now, we have the proliferation of GTLDs that with an extremely ambiguous mapping to legal jurisdictions.