Re: new.net: yet another dns namespace overlay play

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () cybernothing org>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Paul A Vixie wrote:

> > Too bad ICANN has been such a complete and utter failure that an
> > organization felt it necessary to start such a business, huh?
>
> ICANN's prospective failure is evidently in the mind of the beholder.

Besides producing a UDRP that allows trademark interests to convienently
reverse-hijack domains and the selection of a handful of lackluster
TLDs from a pool of applicants paying a non-refundable 50k fee in a
completely arbitrary and capricious process, perhaps you could point to
some of the many successes of ICANN as an organization?