Verisign is attempting to
reduce .com competition by sanctimoniously forcing .org to represent only non-profits.
Yet Verisign (Network Solutions) and many other registrars routinely, with full awareness,
sign up users with .org addresses who represent any number of business, artistic,
and personal sites. Businesses receive ads regularly from registrars such as Network
Solutions saying "grab your .net and .org domains to protect them from improper use."
Verisign (Network Solutions) therefore acted and acts in bad faith if it now desires
to disempower those customers it so willingly took money from. People who purchased
.org addresses have invested considerable time, energy and money into their sites,
which have built up value over the years. If Verisign (Network Solutions) and ICANN
now conspire to change the evolved rules to "purify" the .org domain to meet their
self-serving standards, they will have violated not only the public trust but also
the livelihood of countless businesses and individuals who invested in .org addresses.
Such a profound violation will have unimaginable consequences, further destroying
the credibility of the already-shaky internet as an honest and upfront medium for
expression, commerce, and interaction. You don't really think the people damaged
by this one-sided self-serving agreement will let you or the buying public ever forget
this betrayal. Use common sense. You will be directly attacking the very users of
the medium you wish to make money on. Those billions of email messages sent everyday
across the internet are turned against those who betray the public confidence. You
don't want to become the pariah of the web.
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