“ICANN is the USSR of the internet” - Karl Auerbach speaks out
Claims:
"…By my estimates it costs Verisign about $0.03 per year to perform the registration of a domain name in .com. …we have recently seen several other TLDs drop their prices down into the sub $0.25 per year range… And we ought not to forget that Verisign has been able to do this in a period in which the costs for processors and communications has fallen to tiny fractions of what it was when the $6/year fee was first put into place. It is amazing that in the area of domain names, prices are rising while on every other part of the internet they are falling. It's pretty clear that ICANN and NTIA jump to the service of Verisign… …ICANN has been derelict in its responsibilities and that dereliction is costing the community of internet users roughly $380,000,000 every year… that does not count the tax that ICANN imposes onto the internet community, a tax that cumulates to tens and tens of millions of dollars every year…"
"…ICANN is an arm of the US government…"
[if ICANN were to vanish] "…we would notice that the net had not even stuttered not one packet would fail to reach its intended destination and DNS registration and renewal would continue as if nothing had happened."
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