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One might wonder what a non-profit corporation expects to gain from
being permitted to increase its fees. The answer, of course, is that the
increased income can be distributed to the company's officers as salary.
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<br>So a non-profit entity has as much motivation to engage in monopolistic
behaviour as any other, and will do so if given the chance.
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<br>The org TLD is perhaps viewed as a testing ground for this, since
holders of its subdomains are unlikely to have as much clout as would
holder of .com domains, for example.
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<br>ICANN might care to take into account that its entire control of the
Internet domain name system is based on the root server addresses built
into operating systems, and those can be changed if the domain name
system turns into a method of extracting rent from the existing domain
name holders. All it would take would be agreement between Microsoft,
Apple, Google (for Android) and a few Linux distributions, and ICANN
would be out of a job.
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<br>The net, org, and com registrars knew what they were getting into. If
they don't want to operate within the existing pricing constraints, then
they should pass the job onto someone who does. Wanting to change the
rules now is like moving into a suburb next to an airport, and then
complaining about the noise.
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<br>Sylvia Else<br>
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