I more than agree. Remember
ICANN was established by a law firm for pity's sake, and even now in the words of
Karl Auerbach: "It seems as if ICANN's management is building an expansive empire
that will ensure life-time employment for its officers and executives as they oversee
the ever-increasing number of employees and the ever larger budgets that will be
required to perpetuate ICANN's already entrenched system of nano-management of the
Internet's domain name system providers. Even today ICANN has a manger-to-worker
ratio that exceeds the dreams of professional bureaucrats. And what has ICANN
achieved with with the millions that it has already spent? Not much.
Instead, ICANN has been busy feathering its own nest, and that of the law firm that
created ICANN, while the actual stability of the Internet has eroded. The consumers
of domain name services are more at risk today than they were in the days before
ICANN."
No wonder Trademark holders were favoured first. It's sickening, and we
definitely need a more transparent, government-sanctioned body to overthrow ICANN,
but to enact a coup would be pretty damn difficult now because ICANN has got the
support of big business (surprise, surprise) and many government officials.
VIVA
LA RESISTANCE!!!