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Speaking at the Ruxcon information security conference in Melbourne on Sunday, Vixie, a pioneer of the Internet's DNS system, said that creating the new TLDs goes against ICANN's purpose:
"ICANN is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public charity [under the California Non-profit Public Benefit Corporation Law], and their job is to serve the public, not to serve the companies... I think that until they can come up with an actual public benefit reason they should be creating more of these, they've got no cause to act," Vixie said.
"There should be no price at which you can buy '.microsoft', but there is, and that's a mistake. That indicates corruption, as far as I'm concerned."
Vixie also indicated the WHOIS privacy industry wouldn't exist were it not for criminals:
"There are plenty of folks [who] would like to say [that] for civil society purposes we need the ability for dissidents to register a domain name and complain about their own government, and not have to worry about getting their doors kicked in. Frankly, that is not a realistic scenario, and that is not the way that WHOIS privacy gets used," he said.
Vixie encouraged conference attendees to implement technologies that improve the integrity of DNS (like DNSSEC) and called for replacement of the X.509 Certificate Authority system.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by SanityCheck on Monday October 26 2015, @05:21PM
The fact that it was a money-grab was painfully obvious. The guy seems to try to be very political about it. ICANN is now as all other marginal gate-keeping government institutions: a place for patronage. Trying to advocate change to their modus operandi through public discourse about the issue will yield likely nothing. Only way things will change (and not for the better) is through horrible fragmentation of the DNS system which will result in many regional entities under the thumbs of their respective state-sponsors.
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Monday October 26 2015, @05:27PM
that whole .sucks thing was a clear indicator of a money grab.
The TLD system, at least what it's evolved into, is a money printing press that works to make cash in all of the world's currencies.
it used to be I could tell by the domain that unless I was feeling lucky, maybe I should not click on that link, or open that email.
Not anymore. Well that's not true.. some of the new TLDs have been used almost exclusively by spammers and malware botnets and such. It must be nice to be able to set up so many disposable and private TLDs with ill gotten proceeds. It seems to serve only to keep the honest people honest, and the corrupt people in business.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday October 27 2015, @12:47PM
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