perhaps or perhaps not ... having Federal oversight is what keeps our utility bills from skyrocketing in parallel with gasoline/diesel pricing.
when a natural monopoly is present and/or cannot be avoided .. government oversight can be desirable to prevent pricing abuse we the consumer have been subject to without recourse ... like say drug prices going nuts, internet access skyrocketing, etc. etc. etc.
there is now NO federal oversight for ICANN ... which in now in control of root .. a private entity being given the keys to the kingdom for .. zero.. nada.. nothing...
@_CY_ - You really don't understand how the Internet works, do you?
They set their own rules for 18 years, man. The government said "make policies. also provide the technical implementation of whatever these policies are that you make. also, abide by your own policies, that you make."
They already admin'ed the root files. They were already in control of root.
This change to a multi-stakeholder model wasn't a giveaway at all... ICANN already ran it how they wanted.
yes but ICANN always had government oversight .. now ICANN a private entity has a monopoly for root control of the internet given to them for zero ..nada ..
we'll find out just how bad we the payer's of domain registrations will get tapped. there will be zero .. nada .. control of pricing ..
but ah .. you conveniently forget to mention ICANN holds/controls the root translation layer that hooks everything together ..
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They are available. You just have to know how to use them.ICANN does nothing with alt root. As far as the "official" Internet there is only one root zone, with hundreds of root servers that share 13 IP addresses. These "rogue" alt root servers are not available to the most of the Internet and are not included in root hints.
They are available. You just have to know how to use them.
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There was never any federal control of domain pricing.
You're welcome to use any root zone you want on the Internet. In fact, there are several that already exist.
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