Domain Name Rights Coalition

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad ICANN:


Every once in a while, ICANN pushes so far past the limits of acceptable decision-making processes that the only suitable response becomes satire. Here are three recent examples:

• Texturbation -- which looks like a new weblog -- has two recent posts on the .COM deal:

  "VeriSign's .com Win Guarantees Internet Stability"

  and "VeriSign to Outsource .com Registry to Go Daddy";
  
  

• Karl Auerbach has simplified the creation of an ICANN Strategic Plan by automating the generation of important-sounding but nonsensical ICANN-speak; and,
  
  
• Richard Sexton takes on Vint Cerf and the ICANN Board Chair's views on new gTLDs.