Once, again, we see that sarcasm doesn't play on the net.
Really? Who do you get your connectivity from? I get my home connectivity from RoadRunner, and they don't require me to sign any contract with ICANN; my colo server gets connectivity from another provider, and they don't require any contract with ICANN either.
I have registered several domains, and _that_ requires a contract with ICANN. But if I preferred to just give out the IP address, I wouldn't need those either.
But I've been using my name and making speeches on the net for a long time, since well before I had a domain. (Depending on how you define "the net", I could argue I was doing so before ICANN existed.)
No, they don't. When does schlund.de sign a contract with ICANN?
Seth
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I seriously doubt that schlund.de has any contact with ICANN. I get my connectivity through cableone.net both for personal matters _and_ for the Digest. In the case of the Digest, I use puTTY (a secure form of telnet) to connect with massis. lcs.mit.edu in Boston. I do _not_ do telnet to telecom-digest.org. 'telecom-digest.org' only exists as a figment of my imagination. It is an _alias domain name_, ditto telecom-digest.com and telecom-digest.net.The only one I use is telecom-digest.org (as you may know), and all three of those aliases (.org/.com/.net) terminate on the computer system of the mayor of Trumansburg, NY known as iecc.com. When calls to those three alias names (let's call it
So whatever I do here all day, either telnetting to MIT for this Digest, or telnetting to one of my accounts at Berkeley, CA where I have a couple .edu accounts or a couple other .edu accounts 'back east' I begin by hooking my computer to the cable line of cableone.net in Independence, KS and I have a 'backup' arrangement to do dialup via TerraWorld.net here in Independence also. I do not know what arrangements Cable One has with ICANN, nor do I know what arrangements the various .edu sites I use have with ICANN. All I know is that my _domain name_ telecom-digest (multipled three times, .org/.net/.com) is registered with ICANN and they reserve the right to take it away from me if they wish to do so. Either I (or someone) has to pay an extortion fee to ICANN and _sign a contract with them_ waiving most of my rights. If that is not having control over the net, I do not know what is.
I keep hearing people saying "ICANN has no rights over your domain name," and I do not know where they come from or what happens with _their_ domain names. Surely they have to sign the same contract signing away their rights to ICANN also. Am I some sort of exception to the rules? I must obey ICANN's rules but no one else has to? That must be the case. I must be some sort of exceptional case; no one else has to sign away their domain name or pay some extortion payment? Is that why I have to keep explaining this over and over? Why should I have to pay ICANN exortion money to be able to use my name? PAT]