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"We Are Inept. Replace Us."

by Bret Fausett at 05:39AM (PST) on February 16, 2006 | Permanent Link | Cosmos | Digg This

Last night's Radio GoDaddy is worth a link of its own. Bob Parsons, Tim Ruiz, Nima Jones, and David Lawrence talk about what the ICANN-Verisign deal would mean for registrars and registrants. Must listening. If you have iTunes, you can subscribe by clicking on this purple icon:

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. The whole show is entertaining, but the ICANN-Verisign conversation begins at 8 minutes, 30 seconds into the show. After the break, it resumes at 20 minutes, 15 seconds. Nima Jones has a terrific question for Bob Parsons: "Do you feel disrespected?"

And the quote of the hour comes from Bob Parsons. What signal is ICANN sending to the world when it announces that this is a deal worth signing? "We are inept. Replace us."

Meanwhile, Marcus Faure reports to the Registrars: "I would like to alert those of you who have not been in the teleconf with ICANN staff last Monday that ICANN staff is convinced that the revised settlement agreement should be signed and that they will recommend this to the Board." Draw your own conclusions.

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Re: "We Are Inept. Replace Us."

by Berard on Fri 17 Feb 2006 03:45 PM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

There is a serious side-effect to the proposed .com registry agreement that has gotten little attention. On a February 13 conference call with registrars, ICANN staff made one thing clear: the proposed .com deal has nothing to do with what is best for the internet community and everything to do with settling litigation between the body and VeriSign. Not only is this a bad business move, it will have exactly the opposite effect. Not only with the deal give VeriSign perpetual control of the .com registry, it will make ICANN a perpetual legal defendant.

And don’t forget that the special treatment given VeriSign in the .com (and .net) registry agreements has drawn the attention of all other registries.

As the board convenes to consider the .com deal, it needs to appreciate that approving it will not solve the problem it seeks to address: the end of litigation. Quite the contrary.

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