This is VERY IMPORTANT reading for ALL webmasters everywhere. Please make your voices heard.
ICANN proposing tiered pricing of domain names
The organization that manages domain names is proposing that only corporations and government organizations will own websites in the future.
ICANN the governing body that manages domain names is proposing to allow variable & teired pricing of domain names. That means that the price of your domain name can be changed on a whim by the organization that you bought it from.
Imagine for instance this site and all the work that the staff put into making it. If this proposal were approved the business that leased the name to the owners could simply say "Your site is popular now you have to pay more tis year". Will that charge be $20? $2000? $10000? you won't know they will be able to change it at their whim for any site they want.
What if you say something unpopular on your site ( say your prodrugs for instance or of a different religon ) and the company you lease your name from doesn't like that? Again they could charge you more for no reason. IN fact they could price you right out of the domain.. asking even a million dollars if they wish.
You don't even have the option to go to another business to lease your name from. There is only one for each type of name.
It seems the only deep pocketed organizations will be able to fight this form of opression of speech.
If you believe in free speech and fair business practices please share this.
Please let them know how you feel about it by sending an email to them here:
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Also please spread the word..
Contact any business organizations your a member of.
Contact any others you know that run websites.
Thanks.
For more information try here:
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ICANN proposing tiered pricing of domain names
The organization that manages domain names is proposing that only corporations and government organizations will own websites in the future.
ICANN the governing body that manages domain names is proposing to allow variable & teired pricing of domain names. That means that the price of your domain name can be changed on a whim by the organization that you bought it from.
Imagine for instance this site and all the work that the staff put into making it. If this proposal were approved the business that leased the name to the owners could simply say "Your site is popular now you have to pay more tis year". Will that charge be $20? $2000? $10000? you won't know they will be able to change it at their whim for any site they want.
What if you say something unpopular on your site ( say your prodrugs for instance or of a different religon ) and the company you lease your name from doesn't like that? Again they could charge you more for no reason. IN fact they could price you right out of the domain.. asking even a million dollars if they wish.
You don't even have the option to go to another business to lease your name from. There is only one for each type of name.
It seems the only deep pocketed organizations will be able to fight this form of opression of speech.
If you believe in free speech and fair business practices please share this.
Please let them know how you feel about it by sending an email to them here:
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e -->
<!-- e --><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e -->
<!-- e --><a href="mailto
[email protected]">[email protected]</a><!-- e -->Also please spread the word..
Contact any business organizations your a member of.
Contact any others you know that run websites.
Thanks.
For more information try here:
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