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- ICANN is a natural monopoly because DNS was designed to have a single, central authority.
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ICANN has market dominance and it's not going away, unless we switch to a completely new set of technologies (e.g. information-centric networking) for the Internet which might mean a transition to completely new governance.
- TLDs Go Hippety Hop
- New Policy Needed
- Whois/Privacy: Will Ssad Get A Haircut?
ICANN is embroiled in a controversy about approving the transfer of a TLD (.HIPHOP) from its original owner (Uni Registry and Names) to its buyer (a company called Dot Hip Hop). ICANN has withheld approval of the transfer for a long time, which is harming the business plans of the applicant. Why? A letter from Russ Weinstein of ICANN’s Global Domai...
What’s being lost in the .HIPHOP acrimony is that an improved policy regarding ownership changes in TLD registries is badly needed. The current registry agreement requires ICANN’s approval for changes in ownership and only says that approval “will not be unreasonably withheld.” This provides no criteria or standards for approving or withholding app...
Since 2018 the ICANN regime has reformed the DNS Whois service to bring it into alignment with GDPR and privacy norms. It has already redacted the publication of sensitive personal data associated with domain name registrations, such as email and home addresses. The redaction, however, naturally brought with it demands for a service to disclose the...
Jun 15, 2023 · The reason for community-developed policy should be obvious: ICANN Inc., the root’s gatekeeper, is a monopoly. Entering into a “contract” with a private company in exclusive control of an essential input into a business is almost an oxymoron; it is not really a private, market-based agreement.
Sep 8, 2016 · ICANN’s Internet monopoly comes from a contract with the U. S., through which it became an “instrumentality” of government and so is exempt from anti-trust laws.
ICANN is a natural monopoly because DNS was designed to have a single, central authority. Switching to a new DNS root without ICANN's cooperation would be a monumental task, and they know it. But setting up a new CA, while expensive and time consuming, is very doable.
Jun 1, 2011 · After all, ICANN is a monopoly. However, it is also difficult to conjure an alternative structure for ICANN that would not also have substantial flaws: • A private for-profit corporation might try to create artificial scarcities and extract high prices as a consequence (again, ICANN is a monopoly). •
Jan 28, 2016 · Happily, the US government agrees. Two years ago, the department of commerce, with the backing of President Barack Obama, floated the idea of turning Icann into an independent body, accountable to ...
