Warning ICANN madness - renewal fees for RedCross.org can raise to $1,000,000 or more - GoFuckYourself.com

gogonow · 09-06-2006, 03:38 AM

Some extremely important contracts regarding the Internet are being reviewed this Thursday, September 7th, 2006. These contracts would allow the monopolistic companies operating the .biz/.info/.org domain extensions to charge whatever price that they wanted.

The current contract negotiations do not include .com and .net, but VeriSign, the company that manages them supports these proposed agreements and are undoubtedly going to demand equal terms for .com and .net

A provision in these contracts is the equivalent of the energy commission granting regional monopolistic utilities indiscriminate rights to exploit consumers by raising the price of oil, gas and electricity. A strong possibility exists of variable pricing for different domains and could be viewed as extortion. Heavily trafficked sites such as RedCross.org or UnitedWay.org could be forced to pay exorbitant sums or risk losing their well-known domain names. Do you want your donations going to charity or to some greedy company?

If you own any websites or domain names, you should be deeply concerned that your next renewal fee may be much more than you expect or can afford to pay. As a webmaster, please link to the petition at http://www.BadForBusiness.org

Please take a moment and sign the online petition at http://www.BadForBusiness.org

If you are a U.S. citizen, please send your Senator or Representative a personal email expressing your concerns. You can then reference your email to BadForBusiness.org so that they can read additional details. If applicable, be sure to mention that you are a small business owner that is worried about being put out of business.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/...ua_congressorg

Your actions can make a difference. Please help keeping this message alive, spreading the word, and signing the petition.

Internet as we know it, is at a risk.

gogonow · 09-06-2006, 03:49 AM

more info http://www.circleid.com/posts/how_mu..._domain_costs/

Nookster · 09-06-2006, 05:20 AM

This deserves a bump.

shuki · 09-06-2006, 06:00 AM

bumpo

jasonir · 09-06-2006, 06:02 AM

who gives a shit about biz/info/org... such loser tlds. this is alarmist bullshit to begin with.

Nookster · 09-06-2006, 06:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasonir

who gives a shit about biz/info/org... such loser tlds. this is alarmist bullshit to begin with.

Go back and re-read the WHOLE post this time.

jasonir · 09-06-2006, 06:09 AM

Gimmie a fucking break. This is ALARMIST BULLSHIT. The world is not ending, as gogonow would have you believe.

Marshal · 09-06-2006, 07:02 AM

this is not good at all...

KRL · 09-06-2006, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasonir

Gimmie a fucking break. This is ALARMIST BULLSHIT. The world is not ending, as gogonow would have you believe.

Wake up and smell the fucking coffee. Shit changes. And if this bullshit gets cleared, the same thing can happen to .com's when those registry contracts renew.

How'd you like to pay market value to keep your domain(s)?

chipmunk · 09-06-2006, 07:13 AM

The sky is not falling...

If anything, I can see them doing this to non proven "not for profit" type Orgs, using the .org extension. Orgs like RedCross will be safe for sure IMHO!

-=Chipmunk=-

pornguy · 09-06-2006, 07:15 AM

I think that greed may won out over some of this..

09-06-2006, 03:38 AM	#1
gogonow Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 64	Warning ICANN madness - renewal fees for RedCross.org can raise to $1,000,000 or more Some extremely important contracts regarding the Internet are being reviewed this Thursday, September 7th, 2006. These contracts would allow the monopolistic companies operating the .biz/.info/.org domain extensions to charge whatever price that they wanted. The current contract negotiations do not include .com and .net, but VeriSign, the company that manages them supports these proposed agreements and are undoubtedly going to demand equal terms for .com and .net A provision in these contracts is the equivalent of the energy commission granting regional monopolistic utilities indiscriminate rights to exploit consumers by raising the price of oil, gas and electricity. A strong possibility exists of variable pricing for different domains and could be viewed as extortion. Heavily trafficked sites such as RedCross.org or UnitedWay.org could be forced to pay exorbitant sums or risk losing their well-known domain names. Do you want your donations going to charity or to some greedy company? If you own any websites or domain names, you should be deeply concerned that your next renewal fee may be much more than you expect or can afford to pay. As a webmaster, please link to the petition at http://www.BadForBusiness.org Please take a moment and sign the online petition at http://www.BadForBusiness.org If you are a U.S. citizen, please send your Senator or Representative a personal email expressing your concerns. You can then reference your email to BadForBusiness.org so that they can read additional details. If applicable, be sure to mention that you are a small business owner that is worried about being put out of business. http://www.congress.org/congressorg/...ua_congressorg Your actions can make a difference. Please help keeping this message alive, spreading the word, and signing the petition. Internet as we know it, is at a risk.

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09-06-2006, 06:09 AM	#7
jasonir Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Toro'no Posts: 1,887	Gimmie a fucking break. This is ALARMIST BULLSHIT. The world is not ending, as gogonow would have you believe. __________________ ICQ: 61689996

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