Yes, I was about to make a similar comment - the best ccTLD's, like ".ca" and ".uk", should be relatively safe, since even with ICANN's overall authority over *all* TLD's, surely they cannot dictate to CIRA or Nominet that these country-based authorities must go the privatization/capitalism route.
I like the idea of doing some 10-year renewals right now, because that will at least deprive the new profiteers of an initial 10 years of ill-gotten gains, but it does result in a long-term gamble on establishing a well-regarded and well-recognized ".org" site.
I presume this new privatization move is loosely related to the same political forces in the U.S. that ended net-neutrality in 2019.
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 12:40, Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net wrote:
By definition, since the blatant failure of governance is occurring at ICANN and the *entire* domain name system falls within ICANN's remit, no.
However, .ca - managed by CIRA, which has a fairly strict mandate (so far, anyway), is a fairly good bet IMHO.
-Adam
On 2019-11-26 12:07, Alberto Abrao wrote:
Is there any TLD that's safe - for now, at least - from such an interference?
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On 2019-11-26 10:29, Glen Ditchfield wrote:
As you may have heard, ICANN removed the price caps on .org domains, then quietly decided to sell the .org registry to a private equity firm linked to a former ICANN CEO and several American billionaires (https:// www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/26/org_selloff_internet/).
So, a bunch of respectable organizations have started a petition to stop that, at https://savedotorg.org/ . Signing might help.
Given the absolute failure of governance at ICANN, which seems to be spreading to NRO, IANA, etc., I think "Save dotOrg" has about as much chance of success as "Save Concordia" did locally, no matter the justness of the cause.
What *would* be a good idea, though, despite the "rewarding bad behaviour" aspect of it, would be renew any .org domains you have, NOW, for the maximum term (10 years). Several industry observers are expecting prices to rise >10x, so you'll probably be saving a good chunk of money by doing it now.
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