<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:58 PM Keith Medcalf <<a href="mailto:kmedcalf@dessus.com">kmedcalf@dessus.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On NANOG list <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a>>, Dan Hollis <<a href="mailto:goemon@sasami.anime.net" target="_blank">goemon@sasami.anime.net</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
<br>
><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/</a><br>
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Operator of the dot-com registry, Verisign, has decided to pay DNS<br>
overseer ICANN $4m a year for the next five years in order to “educate<br>
the wider ICANN community about security threats.”<br>
<br>
>98% of the comments were opposed.<br>
<br>
>How many / which companies would have to get onboard in order to get<br>
>enough support for an icann alternative?<br>
<br>
>Is such a thing even feasible?<br>
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Forget about being opposed or not.  If ICANN wants to buy education<br>
about security threats why are they receiving money?  Quite obviously<br>
something fishy is going on (or El Reg is full'o'shit).<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>El Reg is more of a tabloid than industry media, but you can read almost the same views at domain industry blogs:</div><div><a href="http://domainincite.com/25129-breaking-verisign-pays-icann-20-million-and-gets-to-raise-com-prices-again">http://domainincite.com/25129-breaking-verisign-pays-icann-20-million-and-gets-to-raise-com-prices-again</a></div><div><a href="https://domainnamewire.com/2020/01/03/com-prices-are-going-up-after-verisign-pays-off-icann/">https://domainnamewire.com/2020/01/03/com-prices-are-going-up-after-verisign-pays-off-icann/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Rubens</div><div> </div></div></div>