[wildcard-comments] Verisign abuse

[bdragon@xxxxxxxxx]

The IAB has already detailed why what Verisign has done is technically
dangerous.

Very many people have complained that it is both operationally and
socially unacceptable.

I want to mention a financial issue. Verisign is getting benefit from
domains it has not itself registered. It should begin (and backdating to
when they started) begin paying whatever fees are appropriate to ICANN
including the fees it would have received had a competing registrar
performed the registration, for every domain it has provided resolution for
to date. This fee should, if possible, be collected for each and every
hit, as if the domain were registered, used once, and unregistered.

I suspect this will be a windfall for ICANN, based upon Verisign's
estimates of how many hits they are expecting. I would urge ICANN
to use the funds wisely, preferably making charitable donations to
such groups as the EFF, ACLU, and the like.