> The people who care are asleep at the wheel at best, some aren't with us anymore, and ICANN has failed all of us by allowing this to happen.
I think ICANN has increasingly become a failure, in several ways.
- Constant questionable TLD approvals (did the world really need more than the basic five? It's a scammer's dream!)
- IANA mismanaging IPv4 assignment, giving 16.7 million addresses to people who didn't need them at the beginning (like, Apple, who is comfortably sitting on every address starting with 17, or Ford, with every address starting with 19). Causing, of course, IPv4 address auctions...
- The whole .org domain sale fiasco to a private equity firm
- The contracts with VeriSign for .com management and price increases there for no particular reason
- Approving the .sucks domain, in what was widely criticized for having no public value other than to humiliate and extort corporations and individuals
- Giving the .amazon TLD to the company, instead of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) which is comprised of countries involved in the actual Amazon rainforest after a years-long battle
> - IANA mismanaging IPv4 assignment, giving 16.7 million addresses to people who didn't need them at the beginning
The US government could step in and demand that the big HODL'ers of not actively used IP space release it back to IANA. It's even worse than Nestle and others hogging onto extremely old water rights because Nestle at least makes something that people can drink...
Our governments are sitting and idling around while valuable resources - IP addresses, water, food, whatever - get ever more and more scarce as large chunks are held hostage by private companies.
Fair point, in my attempt to throw shade at domain squatters I seemed to forget that countries and languages exist. (I really hate domain squatters...)
I think ICANN has increasingly become a failure, in several ways.
- Constant questionable TLD approvals (did the world really need more than the basic five? It's a scammer's dream!)
- IANA mismanaging IPv4 assignment, giving 16.7 million addresses to people who didn't need them at the beginning (like, Apple, who is comfortably sitting on every address starting with 17, or Ford, with every address starting with 19). Causing, of course, IPv4 address auctions...
- The whole .org domain sale fiasco to a private equity firm
- The contracts with VeriSign for .com management and price increases there for no particular reason
- Approving the .sucks domain, in what was widely criticized for having no public value other than to humiliate and extort corporations and individuals
- Giving the .amazon TLD to the company, instead of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) which is comprised of countries involved in the actual Amazon rainforest after a years-long battle
And so forth...