Domain registration shouldn't cost money. It's not as
though you are actually buying something off of someone, you're not. You are however
buying a service from your ISP to resolve your domain to your IP through their name
servers. Domain registration should be done by a non-profit (.org ;) company who
charge you for the time it takes to update the master DNS records, and that is all.
Infact, this process could be totally automated (we are using computers right, we
have the technology right?) and thus totally non-profit. Why should I pay a hugely
inflated price to some fat cats for something which has been born out of the open
information source, such as the Internet. What gives ICANN the right (or the companies
it passes this right on to, ie. NS/VeriSign) to charge me money for nothing but the
right to have a domain name, when I then have to pay someone else for the right to
use it. This doesn't make sense. Perhaps we should all start our own master DNS servers
and produce our name spaces thus bypassing ICANN, NS, and all the fat cats making
profit off of innocent hard working net folk.
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