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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: 2) by Snow on Monday October 26 2015, @05:22PM
Was it hard to get an anonymous domain before the new .TLDs?
Answer: No.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2015, @05:56PM
Do keep up at the back of the class [eff.org]
IIRC, this is also in TTIP but I only had time to skim it.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday October 26 2015, @06:16PM
http://www.prq.se/?intl=1 [www.prq.se]
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday October 26 2015, @06:23PM
Was it hard to get an anonymous domain before the new .TLDs?
Obviously not, but THAT wasn't his point.
What he said about private/anonymous domain registrations was that it was largely a refuge for the criminal element. It never did protect the politically down-trodden groups.
That remark had nothing to do with new TLDs, it was just mentioned a separate issue to show the corruption within ICANN.
"The WHOIS privacy industry would not exist if not for criminals," Vixie said....
"WHOIS, you can lie. You can put in an address that is not your own, or you can pay some WHOIS privacy provider to hide the identity of your domain name registration, or your IP address registration. And so investigators, both criminal and civil, have long learned that WHOIS is probably not going to help them much. They check it, but they don't expect any results," he said.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.