[wildcard-comments] DNS abuse

["Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Members of ICANN,

The wildcard DNS resolution instituted by Versign is an abuse that cannot
be tollerated.  When anyone else on the Internet wishes a domain to point
to a website, they must pay for the privelege.  If their domain name is
that of a trademark, they can and often will lose that domain.  This
applies also to names of companies and even mis-spellings of each of
these.

The concept of losing a domain name to which you have no right was not
always the way things were done.  Domain squatting was essentially
abolished and for good reason.  Verisign is now the single largest domain
squatter on the Internet as a whole today, and they need to be stopped.

Thank you,

T. Joseph Carter
University of Oregon
64324 Carson
Eugene, Oregon 97403