[ga] ICANN Under Fire

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

The Name Game
By Anthony Shadid,
The Boston Globe, 9 April 2001

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/099/business/The_name_game+.shtml
ICANN, charged with clearing up the murky water of domain naming, is under fire
from every quarter.

The article includes some interesting comments from ICANN staff:

(1)    The process ''was extremely open and completely transparent,'' said
McLaughlin, ICANN's policy director.

(2)    ICANN officials say the complaints, in part, come from ''sore losers.''
The applications and process were extensively documented on the Web site, with
room for public comment, available to anyone who visited, they point out.

(3)    McLaughlin notes, too, that since ICANN took over the job, the price of
domain names has fallen - from $35 to $9 or even less - and the number of
competitors offering them has surged into the dozens.

(4)    In arguing against greater government oversight:

''It doesn't look very good for the US government to be acting, appearing to
act, in a unilateral way in regard to the Internet,'' McLaughlin said. ''They
don't like to see what appears to be a proprietary attitude by some in the
United States toward the Internet.''

Regards
Patrick Corliss




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