Who Should Run the Internet?

Copied from the Register: The NTIA - an arm of the US government’s department of commerce - is holding a public meeting at the end of July over what should happen to the current Internet overseeing organisation ICANN when its contract is renewed in September. In the meantime, it has opened a public comment board where you are able to email comments for the US government and the rest of the world to see. The board is open now but comments need to be sent by this Friday, 7 July. The email postal address is DNSTransition@ntia.doc.gov.

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It’s official. Ebay is scared. They certainly don’t want to lose their Paypal business to Google Checkout. You know what I think? I think they have every right to allow or disallow whatever services they want on their own site. However, to pretend that it isn’t about money is just disingenous. EBay’s Safe Payments policy states that a payment service must have a "substantial historical track record of providing safe and reliable financial and/or banking related services." So, they’re just looking out for us, right? Yeah right. They’re loooking out for themselves. Their policy should just state instead: "Google Checkout will not be permitted at Ebay because it could cause us to lose lots of money."

AOL is considering giving its services away for free to anyone who already has a high-speed broadband connection. In other words, free AOL software - browser, tools, etc. Apparently, AOL is losing its subscriber base pretty fast these days, now that their customers are figuring out that AOL does not equal internet. If you can click on the blue "e" on your desktop and get to the same internet, why do you need AOL? In this new proposed plan, AOL would try to make their income through advertising. Oh, and dial-up customers would still pay for access. I’d say this is probably their best bet to stay alive.