ICANN participation

   If you Have to restrict us could you allow specific top level domain names like http://index.eric_justin_allan or anything that is not in use and not required by the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers? and also could you add a listing of every registered domain name on your web page and could you allow registeration on your web page?

   Starting 2010 government schools should also be allowed to submit webpagesto the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for the world wide web and also notified by mail that they can. This could not only allow jobs for american students but also could provide jobs for anyone who would like to work for people all around the world that look to the internet for an educational experience. I also believe that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers should provide a place for web pages so that citizens do not need to leave there computers running. the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers should also provide Webpage applications for anyone who would like or believes that there webpage should be placed on the icann server perminently and with consideration for anyone that likes to host there own web pages as well. Can I ask while we are on this topic that if you guys could have someone make an internet search with the option to search anything other than the public server automatically search the public server with search.org or search.net or even search.com? If the owners of the webpages allow us to use these web pages for our public server that would help you guys greatly and everyone in The United States will benifit from this. Lastly if you could somehow advertise this on public channels when and if this is done, alot of america will know to use your search engines and also that they are allowed to post there own web pages and even apply for web pages with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. You Might even get more involvement than you need.

I want to own something like ".com" or ".rel" or simular, would you make something like that for me if I payed you to and how much would I have to pay for that if you would. I would really like to own one. Also Id like a normal domain name as well like "linux.ath.cx" but I can't make html forums yet it's kind
of why I want to make one heh. My mailing address is

Eric Justin Allan
1446 se 187th ave
Silver Springs Florida, 34488

Thanks a million,

http://relik.ath.cx

hey I'm very sorry for this comment being posted here but I can't seem to change my password with the account name relik so now you guys are stuck with two of my users name. You can't take that back either i have two accounts with you guys now:P. anyways could there be a small link at the bottom next to a

contact us

link for personal settings? and also, can i subscribe to this forum with my email address so I can keep up with the latest comments posted here.

Lastly what are the requirements of becoming a registrar? I mean can anyone be one or would I have to pay ICANN to be one? Would I have to go to school. Is there a college title to be a registrar? Why exactly do you guys use registrars? Is it because you where told to be a manager of a company that used registrars because the government owns someone else's property now? Or is ICANN even the property of the United States Government Like I thought it was.
also how come it is proper grammer to start every paragraph and sentence with a capital letter instead of a lower case letter.

ok I'm not trying to hurt the registrars business actually I would like to have a business of my own someday for people who don't know how to register or just need someone to register for them. The reason I say this is because I don't see why my government is telling me I have to pay someone else to have a domain name on Americas computer. unless I should pay the government so that the company ICANN can pay the people for keeping our computer up and running safely. I have no problem with that but I don't wanna pay someone else for this. ICANN definitely needs to charge me and the world for a domain name. Actually I think America and the president of the united states of America agrees with charging for this. Because we owe a lot of money and we don't need to be paying someone to pay ICANN to keep Americas computer running. I'm sure all our registrars agree with us on this one. As a matter of fact our registrars should be working with ICANN for this. I would help but I can't seem to get php running because of another country anyways.

how much will I have to pay ICANN for this regardless ICAN should be charging enough money to pay for itself. That or it should be free and using as little tax money as it can.

Good Morning!

Since last Tuesday i'm unable to reach none of our domains under a Reseller Acount we have with VIZAWEB.COM. Even the domain vizaweb.dom is unreachable and, due to the fact that their website is unreachable we can not send them support messages.
Question: Where can we get help? at this very moment they do not answer the phone, not even the fax, and we have all our customers calling us and we are unable to give them a satisfactory answer.

I know they are Customers of ThePlanet.com, it seems that they are using the planet's servers, but of course ThePlanet can not give support to VIZAWEB'S customers. How can i get access to all my customers accounts to try to move them to another webserver? what happened to this guys? what can we tell our customers?
Thanks for your help on this!
Rafael

PD: i have written a blog post. I was unsure if it was the right place to ask 4 help, thus, i have posted here as well, sorry if this make some sort of spam here in

Rastabits
A good man is never Honored in his own country

How much longer do we need to wait until ICANN allows free domains?

# Unlimited Hosting Space
# Unlimited subdomains
# Unlimited Bandwidth Transfer
# Anonymous FTP Server

This is what some of the guys out there have to offer for less than 100$ a year.

I really must wonder why!
Why can't ICANN register a generic top level domain and allow users to obtain as many subdomains as they want?

It costs only 100$ a year and the internet could be free for all.

Take an example from yuwie and yahoo and co. They offer unlimited webspace and registration is fully automated.

So why in the world can ICANN not come up with something equally smart?

I'm waiting.

Nehtefa

I am Imran Hoque, account holder of Godaddy Software Inc. since 2003. In that
account I have more than 55 over domains. Suddenly they blocked my account and
stop my all of domains. Their funny reply -



[Incident ID: 4709947]

Support Staff Response

Dear Imran,

Due to the many payment disputes claiming fraud we will not be able to reinstate
any of the accounts created in your name.



Regards,



Fraud Department



But none of my transactions was claiming fraud in my that account. Because I
always use my own valid credit card for every transaction in my godaddy account.
My bank also guaranteed me that they never passes any types of fraud complain to
godaddy. So my question is that why Godaddy block my account with this types of
false claim? They totally are cheating with me. I have total legal document
about my all card transactions. So I hope they realize it and solve it urgently.
Otherwise I will be bound to go special court about this matter.



Thanks



Imran Hoque.

 

I have submitted a complaint to Internic about a website using fraudulent registration data in order to conceal the identity of the domain owner/registrant.

Internic didn't bother to communicate with me after I submitted & confirmed my last complaint filed in Oct. 2007. I've refiled a new complaint.

Can anyone give me advice about how I can pursue this matter more vigorously & successfully within ICANN/Internic?

Richard Silverstein
Tikun Olam

richards1052 at comcast dot net

Hello.
My worry is, could an ISP have a better control over the address space given to the end user (CPE)? considering that for a CPE that needs only one and just one link would receive a prefix /64.
My point is that in that condition in a extended period of time result in a waste of IPv6 addresses, despite of the huge address space.

The bottom line: Could the Local ISP offer a fixed prefix like 2001::/96 or /100, to the end user (who have several PCs in the network that need to be reachable from the internet). All of these without going away from the RIR specification for the ISP and keeping routing efficiently and a reduced size of routing table.

I have been the CEO of a small company here in the US for over 15 years. Shorty after going into business, my own name was stolen by an individual who tried to blackmail me. I had to go through the entire process of filing a dispute, but eventually got the name back.

I have heard rumors that ICANN will be charging $50,000 for domain registrations. This only benefits the rich and powerful companies that can afford it. This WILL create a disaster for small business, like mine that cannot afford to register my name at that price, even though it is not a common term and is Trademarked here in the US. However, if some large company wants to put me out of business, yes the Internet is now that important, they could. I would either have to pay the $50,000 (which I cannot afford) or take them to court, which would be just as expensive.

The solution to this is simple, and I beg ICANN to consider this option:

If a company has had a registered domain name, for over a set number of years (3-7 years), and the registered name is the same as the Trademark owned by the company or person, then the company should have the right to register the name under the new gTLD's for a normal fee, not $50k.

I am sure ICANN is trying to prevent cyber-squatters and open-up the Internet, not to put people out of business.

I do feel however, that such extreme measures, as rumored, will create a nightmare for companies like mine who have worked so hard to protect our name and trademark... and cannot afford to pay such a high fee to protect ourselves from those who have the money to put us under.

Warren

In the beginning of the public Internet, over 10 years ago, there existed "guidelines" that one could register a .com domain for a business, a .net domain if the organization was invloved in the Internet infrastructure, and a .org domain for non-profit organizations. Very shortly it became clear that these were not regulations or rules that had to be followed, so they were not followed. People registered .net and .org domains to compete with .com for-profit businesses. Where the owner of the .com domain could, they bought the .net and .org equivalent, but they were not always able to, and often speculators registered the .net and .org equivalent to sell to the .com domain holder. ICANN facilitated all of this by having "guidelines" and "recommendations" - which don't work in the real world - rather than rules and regulations.

Then ICANN, over our objections allowed more direct competitors to the .com business website, .biz and .info, to come into existence, so that a .com domain owner now had to spend about $100 to register 6 or 7 other gTLD's of its domain in order to protect its brand, and ensure that the public could find its web site and know tht its web site was the web site it was looking for.

Then many country code TLD's (ccTLD's) began to use their domains as gTLD's and to sell them to compete in the .com for-profit space. These include, .bz, .tv, .am, .fm, .us, .cc, .ws, .nu, etc., as well as the many country code top level domains which are used by their national groups, like .fr, .co.uk, .de, .ru, etc.

The problem for a domain owner [and I use .com as an example, because it was the original gTLD that was for everyone (except non-profits and internet infrastructure organizations)]; is that there are about 20 or more truly global TLD's in which they must register their domain in order to protect their brand, and to make it clear to the public (the human behind the interent broswer) where their web site is on the internet, and to make it simple to find them, and to alleviate or reduce confusion from similar names.

This is becoming very costly, so that instead of one $10 annual fee to register and renew a .com domain, now one has over $200 (and rising, since ICANN ilegally, in our opinion, raised prices and started taxing domains which were already registered) in annual expenses, and with ICANN's current decisions to allow just about any gTLD if the group can afford to pay ICANN's fees and has enough money to hire a DBA to run the domain database and build and maintain a functioning web site, there could soon be hundreds of competing gTLD's.

The problem with this is two-fold:

1.) The cost to the individual or little start-up or home based business of maintaining its domain and brand will soon become tens of thousand of dollars or euros a year. Domain prices will average $50 a year in ten or twenty years if ICANN's domain tax and registry price increases on registered domains are not disallowed, as they MUST BE.

2.) Even more importantly, people will not be able to remember which web site they wanted to go to - where they could find what they were looking for - where they wanted to return to.

For example, I run a company called LowestPriceDomain.com which has owned that domain for many years. When other gTLD's have arisen, we have tried to buy them, but it is getting expensive, especialy since we only make a gross profit of $0.50 or less on each transaction (each domain sold or renewed or transferred in). It is very expensive to have to register scores or soon hundreds of other gTLD's in this domain name (LowestPriceDomain) in order to protect our brand, and we do not have the money to do so.

How will the public be able to differentiate between our site LowestPriceDomain.com and a competitor, who has LowestPriceDomain.store or LowestPriceDomain.shop? Look at the following list and ask yourself how easy or hard it would be for you or the average person to know what exists at each site without trying them all out in your browser (which would take far too long):

LowestPriceDomain.com
LowestPriceDomain.net
LowestPriceDomain.org
LowestPriceDomain.biz
LowestPriceDomain.info
LowestPriceDomain.us
LowestPriceDomian.eu
LowestPriceDomain.bz
LowestPriceDomain.nu
LowestPriceDomain.cc
LowestPriceDomain.ws
LowestPriceDomain.co.uk
LowestPriceDomain.fr
LowestPriceDomain.tv
LowestPriceDomain.de

And how about when the following are added as they surely will be if ICANN goes ahead with its gTLD plans:

LowestPriceDomain.shop
LowestPriceDomain.store
LowestPriceDomain.mall
LowestPriceDomain.now
LowestPriceDomain.yes
LowestPriceDomain.oui
LowestPriceDomain.si
LowestPriceDomain.sim
LowestPriceDomain.hot
LowestPriceDomain.not
LowestPriceDomain.buy
LowestPriceDomain.sell
LowestPriceDomain.trade
LowestPriceDomain.go
LowestPriceDomain.up
LowestPriceDomain.bus
LowestPriceDomain.today
LowestPriceDomain.sale
LowestPriceDomain.discount
LowestPriceDomain.superstore
LowestPriceDomain.best
LowestPriceDomain.great
LowestPriceDomain.cheap
LowestPriceDomain.onsale
LowestPriceDomain.everyday
LowestPriceDomain.tomorrow
LowestPriceDomain.yesterday

And so on ... it will lead to absolute confusion, and people will not be able to remember one web site from another based on their names. People will not be able to differentiate one web site from another based on their names - and this is a disaster in the making, since we humans use names for everything. We use Language, and by allowing more gTLD's we are creating great confusion in the language of the internet. Search engines will not help us here very much, and it is wrong anyways to allow search engines to have control over a company's brand simply because ICANN and the registries want to make more money each year.

We think this whole thing needs to be thought out much more carefully, and that and decision should be not be based on more revenues to ICANN and the registries and the registrars ( i.e., more domains to register, tax, and increase prices on, etc.) as just about all decisions ICANN has made in the past were based on.

We are going to lose the ability to easily navigate the Internet with words (names) if we allow ICANN to proceed with this folly. Furthermore, just like ICANN's (illegal, we believe) annual tax on domain names and it's illegal, we believe, approval for the registries to raise renewal fees by 7% a year on domains already registered; the rights of the existing domain holders are being trampelled upon without regards to legality or fairness.

Matt Hooker
Chairman
IDOA.info - Internet Domain Owners Association
Protecting Domain Owners Rights and Liberty Globally

I have already made a complaint on this, but there has been no real response yet, except from GoDaddy, which says that they are not going to fix this.

The problem is that when I enter my phone number correctly, as +358.5056xxxxx in their contact editing page, it shows as 5056xxxxx in the whois data. There is no way to have the contry code shown, except entering it as +358.3585056xxxxx and even in this case it shows as 3585056xxxxx in the whois data.

This is potentially another way for GoDaddy to make contact info invalid, and grab domains from their rightful owners.

You need to do something about Future Media Architects. They have hoarded over 100,00 domain names, has been holding them for over 10 years and have been redirecting to nothing but a single search box on of the links is http://media.com. That means over 99,999 domain names that could be useful aren't being used except to redirect to parked page that's been the same for 10 years. And they will not sell any of them. I know some people may not sell some of their's but I mean come on 100,000 domains he probably doesn't even know what most of them are. The man behind this calls them his masterpieces -- they are not art but the public's things, in a way. I mean it's like somebody walking a up to monument belonging to the public and claiming it as their own and not letting anybody look at it or whatever people do around a monument. I can't do anything because I don't have the ability to. So please ICANN for the sake of the internet community give them back the ability to register useful domain names and look into Future Media Architects. They're crapping up the net.

Are you ready for the future internet?
IPv6 and IDNs, that's it.ebpm

Why does ICANN have the 5 day refund policy for registrars?
This is only an invite for domain fishing i.e. register and park domains and keep the ones that get enough type-in traffic to cover the registration fees. An invitation to SPAM in other words.

From a Business Directory owner...

This is not a foum that i have ever encountered, where is the add new post, change your avatar?

This seems like a controlled listing of text.

So,

If it is not.

What do you think of ICANN?

0 = Very Poor
10 - Fantastic.

Vote now!

I would have a vote thing, but this is not a forum.

Hi
Im lupael from Bangladesh.Im a student and working in a IT Comp. I want to join in the Meeting held on Paris 2008 . But in my Passport my Profession is STUDENT. so it is possible to get Visa in this Profession?

Please inform me at info@lupael.com

With thanks
Md.Ashik Iqbal Lupael
Dhaka
Bangladesh
Cell: +880 1719 153197
E-mail: info@lupael.com
Web: www.lupael.com

If you go to to networksolutions.com and search for a domain name the following will happen:
Within no time networksolutions will have registered that domain themselves, locking you into buying it from them.
Of course it is very overpriced.
That's extremely unfair and is not good practice.
I know that their at this moment is no rule against such bad behavior but ICANN should issue a new policy to solve that, because if any registrar did that...
...and its simply unethical.
Please lets act and stand against that fraudulent behavior.

I came from Pakistan by Bus, is it any arrangements from ICANN or Local Host to Pick me from Arrival point to my hotel and Pick my hotel to Venue.

thks

Why is ICANN not doing anything about "leech" behaviour when it comes to purchasing domain names. I find it really frustrating that aside from companies that actively engage in "front running", there are others who have just snapped up domains in bulk with a view to selling them on for hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

For large corporations this kind of money may not be a problem, however for already financially challenged charities, institutions, health organizations and so on it is impossible to have to submit to such unethical behaviour.

In my view there should be a rule which disallows one to sell a domain for more money then domain names currently sell for. If this is legally not possible, then ICANN should come up with alternatives that address not only future purchases but also domains that have already been snapped up by scrupulous companies. For instance there is no reason why any company or organisation should own hundreds of domains. Similarly any domain owned by a company but not being used in a meaningful manner and only having advertising or domain resell should have their domains forcibly made avilable for sale. Another measure would be domain churn - I suspect that bulk purchasers are buying a selling a lot of domains all the time.

If ICANN does not get tough then there will be no reason for ICANN TO exist. We may as well have chaos like we do today. Perhaps it may be appropriate to also check to see who is represented on ICANN's decision making boards - are these people mostly working for registrars and leech companies - after all it would be in a registrars interest to sell as many domains as possible and so bulk purchases are great for business.

At the end of the day, ICANN should in my view serve the needs of larger society and public. This cannot be achieved if the majority voice in ICANN is from people who have a financial interest in the buy/sell/management of domains.

Dear kieren.mccarthy

pls tell me which meeting is useful to me , e.g i attached icann accredietd Domain Registrar Company. mean to say whic meeting is usefull to attend .

Dear kieren.mccarthy

pls tell me im seeing any meeting or workshop on ccTLDs in the schedule, im interested in ccTLDs. pls explain .

thks

Hello everyone,
I'll be in Delhi until Feb 13th's night. Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the new gTLD's workshop as, at
that time, I'll be on the plane. Compared to the new
gTLD's workshop in LA meeting, this one won't last too
long (only 1 and 1/2 hours). Do you think there'll be time
for people to make comments, questions,etc?
I would like to post a few comments/questions concerning
the new gTLD's, but I'll be flying at that time. Does
anyone now if it's possible to post a question ahead of
time?
And, last thing, does anyone know if we can attend the
GNSO Council working session on Sunday 10 Feb and the
GNSO Council Meeting on Wednesday 13 Feb?
Thank you!

Hello, im surprised every one can participate in public meeting in New Delhi from any where in the world. Is it true?

Who will be the sponsor of the expenses of accomodation in New Delhi Public Meeting of ICANN

I found in a blog, and I verified, that networksolusions behave badly. I found no broken rules, so I ask the board to check if ICANN should issue a new consensus policy to solve such missuses.

The problem:

As user I sometime I check from registrar if a domain is available, and only later (maybe after some days) I register it (if it is still available, but usually it is).

But Networksolutions will register the domain few minutes after the check, for one year.

I'm very disappointed about such abuse. I really think that registrar should do fair games on registrar tasks.

Please could someone let me know as to when exactly is the New Delhi Meeting starting? Is it 9th 0r 10th as there are conflicting dates on the website del.icann.org.

Being a student of law my area of interest revovles round UDRP norms. So i wanted to enquire whether the same will be given due attention during this meeting?

I'm a newbie so I hope someone will direct me to the right place. I was wondering if there might be a public forum to discuss issues of registration fraud & how to address it in terms of ICANN. Beyond reporting it to ICANN, I'd like to find out what recourse I might have beyond that, & what ICANN will/can do about it vis a vis the registrar.

Richard Silverstein
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/

Excellent

If you hold a trademark in the domain name, the process you need to be aware of is called UDRP - Uniform Dispute Resolution Process
Now we can communicate in the forum of ICANN

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