T_Bone wrote:
leave the internet alone damnit!
I don't WANT a Democratic internet, I want an Anarchic internet.
Those times are GONE!
It got popular and that ofcourse meant it got commercialized.
Internet is already to a huge extent controled by commercial forces.
"VeriSign Inc"
look no further. Wasn´t that the ones that tried to replace the "domain not found" with a searchpage?
Also you get your connection from a commercial company and they gets their connection....
And some phone/"telecommunication" company owns the physical wires.
It´s not academical playground funded with public funds.
As for ICANN in the long run it´s either the UN or moving to Swizerland, I think the later would be preferable.
Or they could always set up offices in various taxparadises, where foregin and international law would have a hard time to reach them.
