{"id":270,"date":"2006-02-20T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2006-02-20T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T14:54:13","slug":"the-com-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/the-com-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"The .COM Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobparsons.com\">Bob Parsons<\/a>, the CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godaddy.com\">GoDaddy.com<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobparsons.com\/dotcomscam.html\">this very incisive article<\/a> about the monopolization of the .COM domains by VeriSign.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>VeriSign wants to control the .COM registry forever.<br \/>\nVeriSign has somehow persuaded ICANN to propose a new contract where VeriSign will be the permanent and unregulated controller of the .COM registry. VeriSign would also get the right of presumptive renewal. This means when the new contract for the .COM registry comes up for renewal in 2012, it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be put out for bid \u00e2\u20ac\u201c like the .NET contract was in 2005 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c instead it will simply renew in VeriSign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favor.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[tags].COM, VeriSign, ICANN, domains, registrars[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy.com, has this very incisive article about the monopolization of the .COM domains by VeriSign. VeriSign wants to control the .COM registry forever. VeriSign has somehow persuaded ICANN to propose a new contract where VeriSign will be the permanent and unregulated controller of the .COM registry. VeriSign would also get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}