ICANN's time must come to an end.

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With their decision to endorse and approve of Verisign's reprehensible 
conduct, ICANN has utterly betrayed the entire internet community, and 
has permanently lost my trust, and the trust of every person who values 
openness and stability on the internet.

Versign has already proven beyond any trace of a doubt that they are 
willing, ready and able to hijack and hold hostage the entire domain 
name system in pursuit of profits, despite the fact that doing so is a 
clear and egregious breach of their contractual obligations. 
Furthermore, Verisign remains to this day unrepentant and arrogant in 
their insistence that they can do whatever they like with the domain 
name system, without regard for contractual obligations or ethical 
considerations.

With wanton and irresponsible disregard for their core mission, ICANN 
has decided not merely to disregard this abuse, but to actively reward 
it. Thanks to ICANN's hopelessly flawed decision, we can now look 
forward to further abuses and possibly criminal acts by Verisign. And 
let there be no misconception, there WILL be a next time. Verisign's own 
officers have made it abundantly clear that they consider the DNS their 
personal cash cow entitlement.

ICANN's decision defies all reason, and flies in the face of every 
ethical consideration. There simply can be no rational explanation for 
ICANN's  flagrant abuse of their responsibility. One is left wondering 
just what sort of pressure Verisign was able to bring to bear on ICANN's 
membership to purchase this boondoggle. I'm deeply concerned about the 
possibility of illicit pressure being brought to bear.

The current situation is untenable. ICANN cannot be trusted anymore. The 
only reasonable options at this stage are to dismantle the organization 
and start completely from scratch, or to build a new, internationally 
based DNS which renders ICANN irrelevant.

The people of the Internet community need and deserve a system that 
cannot be hijacked at will by a greedy and corrupt company. To prevent 
future abuses and acts of cyber-blackmail, the hopelessly corrupt and 
broken ICANN/Verisign hegemony must be dismantled or rendered irrelevant 
as soon as possible.