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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 26 2015, @10:36PM
I understand that. What are there 24 trade classes in US? So a trademark can exist in more than class.
And yes there are regional companies. KRI for instance in your example. Which one is truly international. That one would win in my view. If none are the no problem. In each country, the largest would win again. kri.jp is not kri.us, so each have their region, any no TLD ,kri can be created. Hence the honoring of up and down the hierarchic. Again in a country like US, kri.ny.us is not kri.ca.us, so again no kri,us could be created.
And I agree, with single ownership. IBM, owning .ibm, and hence ibm.us, ibm.jp, ... I expect them to use their single domain for ALL their machines. No also having .WATSON , .BIGBLUE. .watson.ibm is find, it is in their domain set. This would also go for drug companies and their sites for new drug offerings.
Where it gets real sticky is when a company buys another and they both have TLDs, Again my personal view is the parents TLD is the domain it is under. So Dell buy EMC, then .emc is returned and .emc.dell the new correct domain.
Right now there is no control over .com just lawyers and lawsuits. Trademark w/ company merged in would make it simpler for all to know who htey are dealing with.