Registrars Competing Against Mainstream Customers for Domain
Names
According to a report at DomainGuideBook.com, "the expiring domains
goldrush is over, at least as far as the average domain speculator is
concerned." Noting that the race for expired and recently deleted names
has given way to a "Wild West atmosphere," the report claims that some domain
name registrars, accredited by ICANN for the purpose of making registration
capabilities fairly available to all customers, are leasing out their bandwidth
exclusively to a few sophisticated speculators for the purpose of grabbing names
during the early morning deletions of names by the VeriSign Global Registry, and
some are co-opting far more than their fair share of connections to the Registry
to allow those select customers do so.
Read the article:
http://domainguidebook.com/Guides/goldrush-III.html
ICANN does absolutely NOTHING to protect or represent the users of the
Internet. They have sold the Root to the IP Interests and Registrars and other
Large Corporate interests. I repose the question once asked about the DNSO,
now I ask it about ICANN.
Can it be fixed or should it be replaced or simply
eliminated?