[ga] VeriSign announces support of .biz/info/org proposed contracts

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How does lifting price caps ensure the continued security and stability of its
infrastructure?  VeriSign, you support the propositions?  What a  
surprise...not.  How does this "balance" protect internet users--by  
lessening the population of websites? That's exactly what will happen  
if these propositions go through.  Passing these contracts will ensure  
the use and even skyrocketing use of free website providers under  
subdomains.  You're not even taking into consideration trademarks and  
businesses built around them and the time and effort spent to make  
them what they are.  The "incentives" and "flexibility" to continue  
investing in the infrastructure of the internet is left to the  
money-hungry companies and individuals such as VeriSign.  Why don't  
you explain to the general public how that comes into play.
And how would this become a level playing field?  Certainly not for  
registrants.  It seems that these propositions all revolve around  
ICANN and the registries.  That's right, leave registrants and  
domainers out of the loop.  Real smart.
This is my last post on this matter, since the deadline is Monday at  
5:00 pm.  ICANN and the likes of VeriSign simply do not understand or  
care to listen to domainers or registrants and the wills and wants of  
the public.  You're message board is extremely below par, you don't  
listen to anyone on the domain boards, you constantly screw people on  
decisions and a good many of you don't even own domains.  Isn't it an  
oxymoron that you are the governing body of the internet?  Yeah, sure  
it is.
It's a sad state of affairs when you get a relative handful of  
responses to these propositions given the severity of the decision  
only because you've posted this at the forum at icann.org and have  
taken no consideration of the thriving communities outside of that  
(i.e. all the domain forums). There are actual online communities that  
live out there besides icann.org--believe it or not.  Where and when  
did these propositions get publicly campaigned?  That's right, only on  
icann.org.  If you only wanted the public relations record to show  
that you offered a "public comment period" for people to voice their  
opinion on the proposed contract changes for .biz/.info/.org, then you  
could have not been so masked and schemed about it and just  
straightforward said: "We're going to debate the new contract  
propositions for .biz/.info/.org and make a decision for you--whether  
you like it or not."  That would have been at least respectable.
This hiding behind the circa 1990's style message board with many of  
the decision makers having no domain portfolios at all is utterly  
ridiculous.  You don't care to partake in the communities around you  
and yet you relish in the tech talk and big words from fellow board  
members and quiet times reflecting how this will ensure the continued  
security and stability of the infrastructure. In the meantime, you  
have lost touch with the registrants and how things really work out in  
the domain world.  Try dropping yourself a few notches from your high  
ladder and listen to the "little" people for once, for Christ's sake.   
Good luck with your decision, because it certainly won't be the  
public's.
Russ Vallotton

"Ensuring the continued security and stability of its infrastructure is
critical to the continued growth of the Internet. That is why VeriSign
supports the proposed new registry agreement for .biz. The agreement
closely mirrors the model registry agreements that ICANN has already
used or proposed for .com, .info, .mobi, .net, and .org."