ICANN Meeting Passes on .com, .xxx decisions

Rob writes "As the Internet Corp for Assigned Names and Numbers wound up its annual meeting in Vancouver yesterday it was inactions that were still causing all the controversy. Major decisions on the .com and .xxx domains had been postponed until next year, as the domain name management body seeks to balance the interests of governments and commercial domain name organizations."

Time to do our own thing then

[Anonymous Coward]

I reckon it's time to start seeding our own DNS servers with the required domains then, seeing as ICANN can't manage it. And rename then to ICANT.

Criticism

[Bogtha]

He went on to observe several times that ICANN is criticized for not moving quickly enough as frequently as it is criticized for moving too slowly.

Um... that makes sense, I guess. In other news, Slashdot is criticised for posting dupes as frequently as it is criticised for duplicating posts.

Re:Seeking to balance the interests of who?

[voice_of_all_reason]

Why should anyone have a say in guiding those billions of buying decisions

That's exactly what the ICANN board members are thinking. "Why should anyone else have a say when I want to do it this way!"

.con

[PhilHibbs]

All scammers, spammers, phishers, and other Internet fraud should be conducted through .con domains.

THE answer...

[bsdluvr]

Let's pretend .org stands for .orgasm, and use that one instead.